Example sentences of "responsible for his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And that volcanic streak was responsible for his rash announcement last December to retire after he was sent off and banned for four games at his last French club , Nimes . |
| 2 | ‘ That means I 'm responsible for his spiritual welfare . |
| 3 | Duncan looked at him , immediately disliking the pin-striped civilian who was obviously responsible for his present situation . |
| 4 | Boswell , middle-aged and wearing heavy spectacles , was Morris 's whip , responsible for his moral welfare , political views and time-keeping . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Non-use has essentially been considered as a negative response to the catalogue and the library user has been held responsible for his own shortcomings . |
| 8 | The young corporal , it should perhaps be pointed out , was also a Grant , but indeed with the recommendation of his own officers he was to a great degree responsible for his own advancement to commissioned rank , and this kind of promotion for gallantry was by no means an isolated example , for a considerable number of non-commissioned officers of suitable education , many of them Scots , reached the junior commissioned ranks . |
| 9 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 10 | The more you thrust forward your ideas , your solutions , your methods , the less the subordinate will feel responsible for his own actions , and hence committed . |
| 11 | He was not the only one responsible for his own downfall , and there were also a few who got away with it . |
| 12 | For example , the Lincoln Electric Company in the USA made each employee responsible for his own supplies ( both purchasing and control ) and for setting the quality and quantity of his own output . |