Example sentences of "[be] responsible for [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ‘ ills ’ of industrial society are responsible for much of the illness experienced by its members . |
| 2 | A fan of Arthur Rimbaud and The Velvet Underground , his band The Centre are responsible for some of the best rock produced in the Soviet Union , and also for introducing Moscow to punk and new wave music . |
| 3 | The propellers are responsible for most of a hovercraft 's noise , especially the tearing sound made as the blade tips approach the speed of sound . |
| 4 | Power plants are responsible for most of the pollution : they account for about 90 per cent of all the emissions of sulphur dioxide , 40 per cent of nitrogen dioxide and around 60-70 per cent of dust . |
| 5 | Already the Next Steps agencies are responsible for half of the staff undertaking the work of government ministries . |
| 6 | Rockfall has been responsible for many of the accidents in the range this year , despite the predictable statement from the Chamonix Guides that most were due to incompetence — an inevitable trait of those not climbing with a guide ! |
| 7 | As will be seen in Chapter 6 , however , some of these isolates have been responsible for many of the revolutionary advances in scientific knowledge . |
| 8 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 9 | Payne , Whitson and Varga are believed to have been responsible for much of the consortium 's recent sales of its catalogue and anti-NT white paper , a source of revenue . |
| 10 | The Government have been responsible for much of the secrecy surrounding many of their policies . |
| 11 | MGM had been responsible for some of the worst quota quickie outrages , and its new willingness to finance British-based production was the result of legislative changes which brought American companies deeper into British film production . |
| 12 | From its early involvement in the fated Windscale piles , the UKAEA has been responsible for most of the key decisions in the history of British nuclear technology . |
| 13 | They accepted the claims without question and assumed , equally without question , that the detained paramilitary men from the Rathcoole district had been responsible for both of the specified shooting atrocities . |
| 14 | A State Department spokesman said that according to the US-led task force , coalition forces had not been responsible for any of the deaths . |
| 15 | I must admit I really enjoyed working with him , and we did tracks like ‘ The Laughing Gnome ’ and I have to say , I am one of the gnomes on that record and am responsible for some of the terrible jokes on it as well . |
| 16 | He concludes : ‘ such a process might be responsible for many of the phenomena of Earth Mysteries , indeed for most paranormal events which , like the salmon , are often extremely elusive . ’ |
| 17 | We may not personally be responsible for many of the barriers in society that disabled people we work with have to face . |
| 18 | Planning has been taking place on this restructure for some months now with close liaison between RAFM and the Aircraft Salvage and Transportation Flight at Abingdon , who will be responsible for all of the dismantling and moving of the airframes . |
| 19 | Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire . |
| 20 | I first realised that herbs could reproduce this effect — ; and later wondered if a lack of them could be responsible for some of the diseases that seem particular to fish of this area . |
| 21 | Thermoelastic effects also exist in metals and were shown by Zener ( 1948 ) to be responsible for some of the relaxation processes found in metals . |
| 22 | Hydro-electric power will still be the main source of renewable energy in the year 2000 and will also be responsible for most of the growth in usage of renewable sources mainly by virtue of projects in South America . |
| 23 | They recommended , therefore , seven regional authorities which would be responsible for most of the major local authority services and thirty-seven district authorities . |
| 24 | Thus , if sufficient sulphate is available in vivo , our belief is that sulphate reducing bacteria will be responsible for most of the H 2 utilised by the gut microflora . |
| 25 | The Exchange 's executive director Sergey Starodubov has said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant that the majority of offers from foreign firms amount to the foreign partners being responsible for most of the hard currency expenditure involved in carrying out a project . |
| 26 | It is evident from this that the contractors were responsible for many of the details and not a little of the basic design . |
| 27 | Some women managed to keep their condition secret and in the late nineteenth century it was probably these women who were responsible for many of the infanticide cases . |
| 28 | On El Salvador and Guatemala , Amnesty International said that it had " overwhelming evidence " that the Army and police were responsible for most of the kidnappings and political murders attributed to death squads . |
| 29 | The figures gave the overwhelming impression that the miners ( estimated at around 10,000 ) were responsible for most of the injuries . |
| 30 | While the IFL were responsible for some of the outrage , BUF members were behind much of the increased conflict . |