Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] responsible for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked whether senior officers who had resigned had given falling pollution standards as the reason and whether staff shortages were responsible for the failure to carry out half the tests that should have been performed . |
| 2 | In 1988 eight inspectors were responsible for the safety of 123 installations in the North Sea , including annual inspections , investigations of accidents and criminal prosecutions . |
| 3 | In pursuing their brand of communism , the Khmers Rouges were responsible for the deaths of perhaps Im people , a seventh of the population . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . ) |
| 6 | These officials were responsible for the collection of revenue and the general administration of the districts where they were stationed . |
| 7 | The first such inquiry of its kind , it found that " unrestrained " vengeance-taking by Sri Lankan troops was responsible for the death of 67 civilians ( apparently the number of bodies recovered , with others still feared missing ) . |
| 8 | The work of a few farsighted publishers and booksellers was responsible for the formulation of an agreement to protect book prices . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In addition to causing severe damage , the floods were responsible for the deaths of at least five people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These statements spoke for the whole Unionist party in their vigorous tone , in the denial that Unionists were responsible for the state of things , and in the laying of blame on the Nationalists . |
| 13 | On an appeal by the plaintiff the Court of Appeal held ( dismissing the appeal ) that in so far as the rules of the club provided that two of its officers were to be responsible in law for the conduct of the club then ( in the absence of an express provision that the officers were responsible for the condition of the club premises ) the rules did not give rise to a duty of care towards individual members to maintain the club premises in a reasonable state of safety and repair . |
| 14 | In 1985 , Norman Broadbent 's chairman and seven consultants were responsible for the completion of 143 assignments — 53% in financial services and 47% in industrial and commercial services — which , at an average of £23000 per assignment , produced a turnover of £3.3m. and a trading profit of £1m . |
| 15 | Responsibility for these plans was divided between the tiers of local government after reorganization so that counties , metropolitan counties and the Scottish regions were responsible for the structure plans , which were understood , at first at least , to be of strategic importance , providing the framework within which local plans might be prepared by district councils . |
| 16 | To find out if PYY or bile salts were responsible for the inhibition of motility , each was separately infused intra-arterially over a two minute period , at the concentrations found in the venous efflu nts . |
| 17 | The Forest Justices were responsible for the enforcement of the Forest law throughout their Justiceships . |
| 18 | There was also the practical reason to provide convincing reasons why so many men were possessed of so little or no assessable ‘ substance ’ , and in the subsidy to justify the assessments of wages which only became effective in the absence of taxable goods , and , moreover , masters were responsible for the payment of their servants ' taxes . |
| 19 | The police have indicated that they believe the Tamil Tigers were responsible for the bomb , but people are sceptical : Mr Premadasa was the closest thing the Tigers had to a political friend . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Interior ministry sources said they suspected ultra-rightwing groups were responsible for the murder . |
| 23 | A friend of Gina 's , Julie O'Dea , was in charge of the tickets ; for the past few weeks , her flat had been a temporary box-office and she was running a tight ship ; all committee members who took tickets were responsible for the money they owed . |
| 24 | Be that as it may , the story certainly helped to shape and support the belief that discharged ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men were responsible for the outrages . |
| 25 | These men were responsible for the maintenance of places for which they acted and for ensuring that worship was conducted in accordance with the tenets of the bodies to which they belonged . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The agisters were responsible for the agistment of the king 's demesne woods in the forest . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In general , the sale was characterised by more trade bidding than has been evident over the past year , while competitive bidding between private collectors was responsible for the morning 's most surprising result : £21,000 ( $31,500 ; est. £6,000–8,000 ) for Joe Tilson 's ‘ Ziggurat 1967 ’ ( lot 79 ) |
| 30 | It is interesting to note in this example how the dependent churches were responsible for the maintenance of sections of the churchyard wall of the mother church ; similar examples exist elsewhere . |