Example sentences of "to be responsible for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 2 | Followers put the decline down to worries about prospects for the drinks company 's French associate , LVMH , amid reports of sharply lower luxury good sales in Tokyo.Similar pressures were said to be responsible for the decline in Rothmans ‘ B , ’ off 10 at £10.99 . |
| 3 | because the situations dealt with by professionals are unique , the professional must be given authority to solve them and to be responsible for the outcome . |
| 4 | The TECs will continue to be responsible for the YT programme for this age group . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At the same time schools continue to be responsible for the provision of high quality education for their students . |
| 8 | ‘ The British Library Research and Development Department should , as soon as possible , appoint an Information Officer for User Education , to be responsible for the collection and dissemination of information on activities in , and relevant to , user education ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is not uncommon for the same Commission officials concerned with proposing draft legislation to be responsible for the enforcement of that legislation against member states when it is passed . |
| 11 | For example , the Variscan orogenic cycles started in the Paleozoic era were said to be responsible for the mountain chains of North America , Europe and Africa . |
| 12 | Mythical beings are reputed in most cases to be responsible for the art that can not be attributed to their own people . |
| 13 | For the East London course , speakers were sent from Church House to be responsible for the study of Hinduism and Islam , but no one was available for Buddhism and Confucianism . |
| 14 | The monks used to be responsible for the education of the boys , teaching them the three Rs and the elements of Buddhism , the learning being almost entirely by rote , so that approaching a village one could often hear from a distance the shrill boyish voices as they repeated the lesson after their teacher . |
| 15 | For the past two years , I have been questioning whether the Lawn Tennis Association was the right organisation to continue to be responsible for the development of a new generation of men and women tennis players who would be able to take on and compete on level terms with the rest of the world . |
| 16 | Section I of this Act clearly sets out how education is to be administered and identifies the bodies which are to be responsible for the implementation of educational policies . |
| 17 | Second , the activities of Maule Ramsay and the two secret societies he was connected with , the Right Club and NL , and his links with Mosley in 1939 — 40 , were to be responsible for the internment of many fascists without trial in the Second World War , and in part the mutual recriminations between Mosleyites and racial nationalists which fragmented the revival of the tradition after 1945 . |
| 18 | The chief of staff was believed to be Colonel Lee Hwal , who had been educated in Japan ; he was thought to be responsible for the organisation of the North Korean air force . |
| 19 | In organizations and government departments who regularly advertise , someone will be appointed to be responsible for the advertising . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was possible to estimate the approximate vicinity of the conjectural planet if it were to be of a reasonable size and to be responsible for the perturbation of Uranus ' orbit . |
| 22 | Who was supposed to be responsible for the university students ? |
| 23 | In 1986 Mr Leon Brittan , the Home Secretary , resigned because he was held to be responsible for the leak of a letter containing the opinions of a law officer about the actions of the Secretary for Defence , Mr Michael Heseltine . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) Unless a licence is transferred to another employee or agent within eight weeks from the time when the employee or agent named in a licence ceases to be responsible for the day to day running of the premises to which the licence relates , the licence shall cease to have effect . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ( 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 . |
| 28 | ( 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 . |
| 29 | Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 . |
| 30 | To this end the purchasing department can usually be expected to be responsible for the following : |