Example sentences of "[prep] [be] responsible for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to be responsible for the reckless consumption of any of the earth 's resources in the shape of fuel , and so a round on foot suited her perfectly . |
| 2 | Most significant for the future was the acceptance of the need for the Federal government to be responsible for the general management of the economy . |
| 3 | To this end the purchasing department can usually be expected to be responsible for the following : |
| 4 | The endorsement our society gives to an ideal of thinness for young women is likely to be responsible for the current high frequency of the illness , but other factors must also be involved since anorexic patients have been reported for at least the past 150 years . |
| 5 | Thus , changes in the physico-chemical properties of mucosal cell membranes as a consequence of the putative variations in their fatty acid composition are unlikely to be responsible for the beneficial effect of diet , since those structural changes would also intervene when the acid load is delivered to the mucosa without prior irritation . |
| 6 | It would be usual in this connection for partners to be expressly permitted to act as solicitors for their own families free of charge except for any disbursements or out of pocket expenses incurred by the firm ( Clause 13.05 ) ; ( 3 ) requiring each partner to be responsible for the prompt discharge of his separate obligations and to indemnify his co-partners should circumstances ever arise in which they could be made liable for the same . |
| 7 | Partly in an attempt to neutralise the Schonfeld lobby , the RC M made a direct appeal to all Jewish organisations to support religious education , an appeal which led to the setting up of an Emergency Committee , on which the full range of religious interests was represented , and the appointment of Rabbi Dr van der Zyl to be responsible for the religious education of Jewish children in London . |
| 8 | He was found to be responsible for the gross mismanagement of oil earnings , and was also implicated in a number of political assassinations . |
| 9 | In an attempt to analyse which components in particular of the Directive seem to be responsible for the considerable degradation in upland habitats ( and ultimately the flora and fauna they support ) in the UK the implementation of the Directive in the French and UK uplands was studied and compared . |
| 10 | For they concentrate on building up co-operatives which allow women to be responsible for the whole production and marketing process . |
| 11 | The application by a non-natural person must name the person who is to be responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises , and the licence granted or transferred as a result of the application must name both the non-natural person and the person who is to run the premises . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) ( b ) 5.11 requires , in the case of an application by a non-natural person , that both the non-natural person and the person who is to be responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises be named in the application . |
| 13 | ( a ) The ground of the unsuitability of the applicant applies not only to the actual applicant but also , where the applicant is not an individual person , to the person named in the application as the person to be responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises under the provisions of 5.11 and to the person on whose behalf or for whose benefit the premises are run . |
| 14 | to be responsible for the day-to-day running of the Course and for making changes as necessary to improve the running of the Course within overall policy set by MCC ; |
| 15 | We observed that deletions up to nt -531 did not impair transcriptional activity , although this region comprises the RARE sequence known to be responsible for the retinoic acid-mediated transcriptional enhancement . |
| 16 | It is his duty to be responsible for the safe custody of all the council 's books of record , documents and title and the common seal . |