Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] responsible for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 in Washington DC I was responsible for the security co-ordination of eleven prime ministers and twenty other Conservative party leaders from around the world who were there for the International Democrat Union Party Leaders ' meeting . |
| 2 | I was responsible for the nursing services , Royal Air Force Hospital , Christmas Island , providing a service for all Her Majesty 's Forces , civilian scientific officers , Fijian Army detachments and the Gilbertese natives . |
| 3 | ‘ I am only too aware I was responsible for the legislation … |
| 4 | I was in sole charge of the bank , and I was responsible for the safe and its contents because the Manager had gone to Parma that day . |
| 5 | I was responsible for the development of battery operated equipment at A.E.R.E. Harwell for a number of years . |
| 6 | The young man wanted to know whether I was responsible for the posters that appeared all over town the previous night . |
| 7 | Would you agree that you were responsible for the sound of the ‘ new ’ Fleetwood Mac ? |
| 8 | They think they 're one and the same , and that she was responsible for the attack . |
| 9 | Elizabeth has worked for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities and between 1980 and 1983 for the London Borough of Haringey where she was responsible for the special education service and secondary school amalgamations . |
| 10 | She was responsible for the CNAA 's response to the James Report , and acted as Secretary to the joint CNAA-NCDAD group in 1972–73 . |
| 11 | Now erm for some reason or other we were responsible for the accredited Poultry Breeding Station Scheme which was erm initiated by the Department of Education or the Ministry of Education as it was then at that stage . |
| 12 | There was erm , a great reduction in corporate activity but corporate finance kept very busy er , with their value services and money raising and er , we were responsible for the National Power flotation and the disposal of Gratton . |
| 13 | Schiller now found himself fighting those whom his father had always taught him were responsible for the break-up of Germany and all she had stood for . |
| 14 | The position of the Central Authority was strong : they were responsible for the Boards as a whole breaking-even over a period of years ; their approval was required for capital and current expenditure ; and they raised the capital and controlled the reserves and bank-balances of the Boards . |
| 15 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 16 | For the most part they took over existing routes , though in the hillier parts of the country they were responsible for the making of entirely new stretches of road where the older roads tackled gradients suitable only for foot-passengers and pack-horses . |
| 17 | They were responsible for the revolution and their rejection of the authority of Tsar , bourgeoisie and moderate socialists alike , and their sustained assault upon the State and private property , is celebrated as one of the greatest expressions of man 's striving for liberty . |
| 18 | It has questioned how far they were in a position to ‘ smuggle in ’ alien dogmas and indoctrinate the masses , and how far they were responsible for the development of class consciousness among workers . |
| 19 | Again , he failed to appreciate that the conspicuous consumption which was the fruit of successful emulation was not as invariably absurd as he made out , or that in the course of history world-wide they were responsible for the greatest architecture and other manifestations of high art . |
| 20 | It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral . |
| 21 | This shift in emphasis has taken place partly because the restrictions on the use of organo-chloride pesticides introduced in the 1960s have enabled some of the more extreme threats to wildlife preservation to recede and partly because pesticide manufacturers countered nature conservationist claims that they were responsible for the reduction in bird population by arguing that hedgerow and woodland removal could be the prime culprits . |
| 22 | They were responsible for the complete show , which was why stories of stars giving notes to other actors or ordering changes in sets and costumes were not just examples of megalomania , but the desire to maintain the overall standard of whatever production they put their names to . |
| 23 | The prosecution admitted that Gbagbo and his coaccused had not themselves committed any crimes , but argued that they were responsible for the violence committed that day . |
| 24 | And so the Western machine , although it was responsible for the growth of science , could claim no exclusive ownership of it : it belongs to and supports the materialistic world of modernity , not a particular political or economic system . |
| 25 | The Royal Commission on the Police ( 1962 ) indicated that it was responsible for the physical well-being of the force . |
| 26 | I wondered if it was responsible for the quiet acceptance of their fate shown by the rabbits chewing their final greenery . |
| 27 | While at the British Council , which he joined in 1946 , he was responsible for the recording of Shakespeare 's plays , under the direction of George Rylands . |
| 28 | He was responsible for the British Council 's highly successful Byron exhibition in Athens in 1974 , a timely reminder of the long-standing friendship between the two countries . |
| 29 | He was responsible for the exploitation of the mineral rights of the Crown — for example , for finding , mining and smelting iron in the forest of Chippenham and in the Forest of Dean and lead in the Forest of the Peak . |
| 30 | He was responsible for the Ruskin School of ’ Art Appreciation in Venice , and returned to Britain intending to continue his work at what was to become known as Ruskin Mill . |