Example sentences of "[adv] responsible for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan looked at him , immediately disliking the pin-striped civilian who was obviously responsible for his present situation . |
| 2 | Thus the responsibility for unemployment would be seen to lie with the unemployed , who would then be seen to be personally responsible for their own unemployment , poverty , etc . |
| 3 | The reorganisation under the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act of 1973 made the people of the Western Isles much more directly responsible for their own development through the elected ‘ Comhairle nan Eilean ’ or Western Isles Islands Council ( WIIC ) . |
| 4 | 1 April 1992 saw the introduction of the government 's new Duty of Care regulations under which most companies who produce or handle waste will become directly responsible for its safe management from ‘ cradle to grave ’ . |
| 5 | Each is now directly responsible for its own marketing , planning , operations , engineering and balance sheet . |
| 6 | Mrs Levine argues with some conviction and at great length that the break-up of Asquith 's romance with Venetia was centrally shattering to the prime minister , was directly responsible for his flaccid performance in the contemporaneous creation of the 1915 Coalition , and indirectly led to the decline of his grip and power and to the end of the Liberal party as a governing force . |
| 7 | ‘ It makes them more responsible for their own work and gets them into the idea that they have to work outside normal school hours . |
| 8 | The drive to take more medicines off the prescription-only list is part of the Government 's aim to make people more responsible for their own health . |
| 9 | But the Princess Sabatini was no more responsible for her egotistical grandson than she was for tonight 's overblown charity event . |
| 10 | While referring to Wayne 's persistent ex-girlfriend ( Twin Peaks ' Lara Flynn Boyle , very funny ) , his subtitles read : ‘ The irony is , I feel partly responsible for her self-nullifying behaviour . ’ |
| 11 | Probably the same dislike of children led her to desert me immediately after my birth , and also caused her only to return on that one , fateful occasion when she was at least partly responsible for my little accident . |
| 12 | With this defence the defendant is saying that the plaintiff has failed to take reasonable care and thereby been partly responsible for his own injuries , loss or damage . |
| 13 | They were also responsible for their own medication — although it was common for users , families to ask staff to remind individuals to take it . |
| 14 | The 1834 Act had made the mother wholly responsible for her illegitimate child so that the privileges of marriage would not be extended to the undeserving . |
| 15 | Patients aged 18 or over are deemed legally responsible for their own actions , and it is often with great reluctance that they will agree to see a doctor and possibly begin treatment or undergo admission to hospital . |
| 16 | ‘ Schools and colleges are now responsible for their own budgets and I would encourage them to grasp the opportunity to make further inroads into energy wastage by investing savings in energy efficiency projects , ’ said the minister . |
| 17 | All people were to be treated as fully responsible for their own actions , including their own offences . |
| 18 | Thus , whereas classicism 's image of human nature portrayed all human beings as being fully responsible for their own actions , Bentham saw criminals as having limited rationality and responsibility , but thought that they could be made more rational by the correct application of reformative techniques in his ‘ mill for grinding rogues honest ’ , as he called the Panopticon . |