Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 2 | The fact is , over the past few months , I have been responsible for a series of small errors in the carrying out of my duties . |
| 3 | And now I have been responsible for getting this man hanged . |
| 4 | For the past two years she has been responsible for the rights department of Hachette 's children 's book imprints in Paris . |
| 5 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
| 6 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 7 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 8 | We have been responsible for launching our children into life and are well aware that we have made the usual crop of mistakes , even though we have tried our hardest to do what is best for them . |
| 9 | They 've been responsible for making Joan Collins a sex symbol at fifty-three . |
| 10 | There was a clear feeling on the part of some Councillors that , since the School was no longer under their sole control and since they now had their own Technical School to worry about ( they had been responsible for its organization and financing from March 1892 ) , they need no longer be too concerned about the Grammar School . |
| 11 | They have been responsible for destroying one of earth 's greatest treasures . |
| 12 | They have been responsible for the building of the Kings Reach Complex in Ramsay . |
| 13 | In this role he has been responsible for LASMO 'S operated and non-operated North Sea projects . |
| 14 | Joining Rhenania in 1973 , he has been responsible for the company 's finance and accounts since 1976 . |
| 15 | Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire . |
| 16 | He spoke from his experience at Nissan where he has been responsible for developing and implementing Nissan 's philosophy and pratices and for ensuring that the business and personnel policies are totally integrated . |
| 17 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 18 | The definitional question , of what natural selection is , can be answered by specifying necessary and sufficient conditions for its occurrence , namely hereditary variation that is causally relevant to reproductive success thanks to organism-environment interactions ; it can , then , be answered without begging in advance of empirical inquiry all those further questions as to whether these conditions are ever met : whether , that is , any natural selection exists ; and , if so , how it is distributed , what it can do now and what it has been responsible for in the past . |
| 19 | ‘ But it has been responsible for the deaths of at least three good men and may cause the deaths of others , including our own . ’ |
| 20 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 21 | The costs and risks involved indicated that it would have been very difficult to convince investors to invest in the generating company National Power if it had been responsible for the nuclear power stations , even though it had been given control of the majority of the generating capacity in order to compensate for this . |
| 22 | The company was formed on Albert Hill in 1864 and by the time it closed in 1879 it had been responsible for 40 bridges in Denmark , 20 bridges in Sweden all built in 1874 , all the viaducts on the Whitby-RedcarMiddlesbrough line including the Staithes Viaduct , Llandudno pier , a bridge in Syria , another over the Tay in Scotland and a footbridge over the Tees at Barnard Castle . |
| 23 | He had been responsible for a number of important buildings which , as well as the Public Record Office , included part of the Ordnance Office ( 1850–1 ) , the Museum of Economic Geology in Piccadilly ( 1847–8 ) and the western portion of Somerset House ( 1851–6 ) . |
| 24 | They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity . |
| 25 | An expert on explosives he had been responsible for the design and building of this 4½ tons charge . |
| 26 | His confession — that he had been responsible for poisoning Mozart — has intrigued historians and musicians ever since , but it seems to be quite unfounded . |
| 27 | Although the assassination of Buckingham could have provided a fresh start , on the assumption that he had been responsible for the King 's policies , there was no redress of grievances . |
| 28 | The Field Marshal was to be tried on two counts : the first , that he had been responsible for the killing of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome and the second that he had incited his troops to act with unnecessary force against the partisans . |
| 29 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 30 | Whilst with Tangye Ltd. he had been responsible for machinery used by the Saltburn , North Yorkshire cliff railway . |