Example sentences of "he [was/were] responsible for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was responsible for the pilgrimage church at Bílá Hora ( see p. 186 ) . |
| 6 | Thirdly , he was responsible for the popular Illuminations first started in 1912 and revived in 1925 . |
| 7 | Espey , the division 's president , is best known in the drinks industry for his 17-year sojourn at International Distillers & Vintners , where he was responsible for the launch of Piat d'Or , now the UK 's biggest branded wine , and Malibu , one of the UK 's largest speciality spirits . |
| 8 | One of the reasons why the elected wakeman might be tempted to shirk his duties was that , as he was responsible for the safety of the town during the night , if any burglaries then took place he had the costly business of compensating the victims . |
| 9 | Wearing his other hat of H Buckley and Sons , he was responsible for the 3,000 kilos of potatoes and 700 kilos of onions , some of which had been grown by the pupils of Scissett Middle School as part of their rural studies . |
| 10 | He denied he was responsible for the attack on the girl . |
| 11 | The principal charges against Latimer were that he had made improper profits out of the campaign in Brittany and that he was responsible for the loss of Bécherel and Saint-Sauveur . |
| 12 | He is advising on a draft bill for a new law to protect Britain 's archaeological heritage better , but he is the kind of academic to whom the government turns for advice on all kinds of matters , not just his own specialisations : last year , for example , he was responsible for the Report on the National Curriculum in art education in schools . |
| 13 | He was responsible for the constructions ordered by Amenophis III at the temple of Karnak and Luxor and for building a temple at Soleb in Nubia . |
| 14 | He was responsible for the carving of the School 's War Memorial , as well as for work in many local churches , and was also a first-class photographer . |
| 15 | Only Irina knew that he was responsible for the collapse of Moscow Centre 's operation at the clinic . |
| 16 | That en entailed employing men to get the coal , and er he was responsible for the wages , he was paid by contract the amount of coal that er he produced , his stall produced . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , though Penda may have embarked on a programme of domination of the south-west midlands , there is no evidence that he was responsible for the formation of the Hwiccian kingdom . |
| 18 | In this he was responsible for the design and installation of the overhead contact system and for putting the locomotives into service . |
| 19 | From 1934 he was responsible for the introduction on the LMS of substantial numbers of diesel-electric locomotives for heavy-duty service in marshalling yards , where they showed great economies over steam and were the forerunners of more than 1,400 of this type on British Railways . |
| 20 | In 1883 he became consulting engineer and in 1885 a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , where he was responsible for the design and construction of their Horwich ( Bolton ) locomotive works and was chairman of the rolling-stock and locomotive workshop committees . |
| 21 | The surviving building accounts and his own drawings make clear that he was responsible for the execution and design of this remarkable house between 1580 and 1588 . |
| 22 | As paymaster he was responsible for the organization of the finance required in the restoration of the neglected royal palaces . |
| 23 | While MP for Pembroke boroughs from 1695 to 1702 ( he was to sit again , for Haverfordwest , 1718–22 ) , he was responsible for the introduction of several legislative measures to suppress ‘ vice and profaneness ’ , notably the Blasphemy Act of 1698 , aimed principally at anti-trinitarian heretics , and the ill-fated ‘ immorality ’ bill the following year , originally designed to tighten the laws against prostitution , but injudiciously extended to make adultery itself a misdemeanour , and for this reason rejected by Parliament as impracticable . |
| 24 | He was responsible for the maintenance and repair of over 7,000 locomotives , 21,000 passenger coaches , and 300,000 goods wagons , as well as for new design and construction , with control of some 30,000 workshop and out-station staff . |
| 25 | In 1936 it was decided to electrify the severely graded cross-Pennine main line from Sheffield to Manchester and he was responsible for the design of electric locomotives for this service . |
| 26 | In the following twenty years he was responsible for the design and building of many new types of main-line and suburban passenger and freight locomotives of large dimensions , which gave excellent service and whose elegance and symmetry of outline were greatly admired . |
| 27 | In a five set thriller , the Handicap trophy was won by Stuart Dixon of Resource Management , Technology , leaving the beaten finalist , Jim McCabe of Operations Support , with mixed feelings as he was responsible for the competition handicapping . |
| 28 | ‘ He was responsible for the situation . |
| 29 | Finding the work ‘ quite fun ’ , from then on his commercial career was set to remain in the media industry , moving in 1980 to be director of Pearson 's information and entertainment division then , in 1984 , becoming managing director of Virgin group where , operationally , he was responsible for the record , video , entertainment and retail businesses ( including the group 's Megastores ) . |
| 30 | Two small collections of his poems have been published , and last year he was responsible for the production of the ‘ Envoi Book of Quotes on Poetry ’ . |