Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] responsible for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst animal by-product and chemical plants were responsible for the most complaints , odours from manure spreading and intensive pig and poultry farms affected the largest number of local authorities as shown in Table 2 below . |
| 2 | ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) |
| 3 | By the late nineteenth century , peasant farmers were responsible for the great bulk of farm produce , whether on allotment land belonging to the commune or on private land bought or rented from the nobility . |
| 4 | At the coal face , the butties were responsible for the actual mining processes , overseen by colliery company officials ; the butties were in charge of organizing and paying for the winning of coal , though not in all cases for its transport to the pithead . |
| 5 | A SURGE in American exports to record levels was responsible for a dramatic improvement in February 's trade deficit to the lowest level in nearly nine years . |
| 6 | At grouping in 1923 , the smaller railway companies , who in many cases were responsible for the rural railway feeders , were bought out , and often their lines were closed and lifted . |
| 7 | This phenomenon has been reproduced in a rat model of ethanol feeding and subsequent lipid analyses indicated that accumulated cholesteryl esters were responsible for the morphologic changes observed . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , one accepts Tyacke 's argument that predestination was the one mainstream belief down to 1625 , the Arminians were responsible for an unprecedented attack on a well-established orthodoxy , and their activities accordingly met with great hostility and resistance . |
| 9 | A small group of wealthy men were responsible for the day-to-day management of community affairs , and owned a disproportionate share of the property — some 40 per cent being owned by only 5 per cent of the inhabitants . |
| 10 | In most countries , the railways were responsible for the speedy and cheap distribution from countryside to town of slaughtered meat , fresh fruit and vegetables , and fresh milk , and from the coast to the town of fresh fish . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , we might note that these services were responsible for a major portion of expenditure of the Metropolitan Authorities and the rises in expenditure incurred through policy of central Government were used as one of the rationales for dismantling these Authorities . |
| 12 | This evidence suggests that social rather than biological mechanisms were responsible for the traditional status of blacks in the USA . |