Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] responsible for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Laclotte has been largely responsible for the choice of works , he emphasises that this is a collaborative exhibition , with different parts of the catalogue by different specialists , not always in perfect agreement with one another : ‘ There is no absolute truth in matters of attribution , just opinion ’ , he says . |
| 2 | The last section of the book is devoted to a description of what has been achieved with the telescope and is dedicated to John Bolton , who has been largely responsible for the dish 's successful operation . |
| 3 | It was thought likely that some substantial Teesdale farmer might buy all three , ranch the land and sell off the house as a weekend cottage — a regrettably common practice which has been partially responsible for the steady depopulation of the Dales , particularly the more isolated places . |
| 4 | He has been primarily responsible for the current European Union Treaty ( EUT ) which has effectively distilled a political idea into political practice . |
| 5 | He has been entirely responsible for the administration of the school … he will be very difficult to replace . ’ |
| 6 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 7 | Some such process may have been originally responsible for the separation of England and France by the formation of the Straits of Dover , although this would have involved the breaching of a much broader barrier than the Purbeck-Isle of Wight ridge . |
| 8 | Beatrice saw him reading Les Liaisons Dangéreuses and slated that too , claiming that it was a steamy romance seized upon by the mothers of France ‘ and said to have been largely responsible for the modern severity towards young daughters ’ . |
| 9 | As Central Committee Secretary for Agriculture between 1978–85 , Gorbachev was bound to have been largely responsible for the limited measures undertaken in support of private plots . |
| 10 | In 1905 A. Edgar Beresford joined Scott 's office ; he appears to have been chiefly responsible for the technical and financial success of the practice . |
| 11 | Since these extremists had been principally responsible for the detailed organisation of the march it is not surprising that there were no serious plans to control it , or to ensure that it went off peacefully . |
| 12 | On Oct. 30 , on the other hand , a report by observers from the Paris-based International League of Human Rights claimed that " an extremely sophisticated method of fraud " had been partly responsible for the IDA getting twice as many National Assembly seats as the PPP with virtually the same share of the popular vote . |
| 13 | Since 1805 husbands had been legally responsible for the married couple 's tax affairs and any married couple 's allowance had been received by the husband . |
| 14 | There has been some suggestion that computer trading techniques have been partly responsible for the crash ( or what is called programme trading ) . |
| 15 | It is arms races of this kind that have been mainly responsible for the apparently progressive quality of evolution , for the evolution of ever-improved running speed , flying skill , acuity of eyesight , keenness of hearing , and so on . |