Example sentences of "[was/were] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 2 | Last week , they were responsible for A Wanted Man ( BBC 2 ) , a powerful trilogy of plays by Malcom McKay about the police interrogation , trial and attempted rehabiliation of a murderer . |
| 3 | The GDR line is that Britain and the US were responsible for this ‘ collaboration with monopoly capital … without any democratic authorisation ’ . |
| 4 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 5 | The Bolivian art historian Teresa Gisbert writes that the Councils of Lima , which were responsible for questions of orthodoxy in the Viceroyalty : ‘ sought to attract Indians to the new faith by the use of images which would be especially appealing to them . ' |
| 6 | Interior ministry sources said they suspected ultra-rightwing groups were responsible for the murder . |
| 7 | The party congress apologised to East Germans , saying that the previous SED leaders were responsible for plunging the country into deep crisis which threatened its existence . |
| 8 | He asked whether senior officers who had resigned had given falling pollution standards as the reason and whether staff shortages were responsible for the failure to carry out half the tests that should have been performed . |
| 9 | During the 41 years of Communist rule , an as yet undisclosed number of secret police agents were involved in continuous surveillance operations against citizens and were responsible for the interrogation and harassment of dissidents . |
| 10 | It was the Howards who were responsible for the daring architectural refinements of the late sixteenth and very early seventeenth century . |
| 11 | Over in the next valley to the west lies the great park and lost house of Frampton Court , the home of the beneficent Browne family who were responsible for the building of Forston Manor . |
| 12 | ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) |
| 13 | Coal-fired power stations were responsible for more than 41 per cent of the electricity in 1987 , with nuclear power second with 22 per cent and gas third at 9 per cent . |
| 14 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 15 | Thus fewer US vessels were responsible for killing an increasing number of dolphins between 1983 and 1986 , while boats sold abroad were not affected by the imposition of dolphin kill quotas . |
| 16 | Dawson and Slooten discovered that these nylon monofilament gill-nets , up to 3000 metres ( 9750 feet ) in length , were responsible for the deaths of far more dolphins than had ever been officially reported , and that the local dolphin population was in fact declining rapidly . |
| 17 | Its councillors were responsible for many public works schemes . |
| 18 | In addition , they were responsible for many slum-clearance and house-building schemes — the most notable of which occurred in Leeds during the mid- and late 1930s . |
| 19 | The next diplomatic process concerned the men who were responsible for the girls . |
| 20 | The Forest Justices were responsible for the enforcement of the Forest law throughout their Justiceships . |
| 21 | The agisters were responsible for the agistment of the king 's demesne woods in the forest . |
| 22 | The Women 's Environmental Network , a non-political pressure group , said women — who were responsible for three-quarters of all decisions about shopping — were well placed to make a stand against companies which overwrap , adding to both bills and rubbish . |
| 23 | According to Mr Hurst , Trafalgar House has held back money because it claims sub-contractors were responsible for delays in completing the project . |
| 24 | In aggregated terms , they were responsible for undertaking approximately 40% of the teaching duties in these counties by the end of the war , in addition to a variety of organisational and administrative tasks . |
| 25 | The co-operatives were responsible for selling any over-produced commodity on the world market and this could be difficult . |
| 26 | Children or young people were responsible for instigating the complaint and consequently social workers and police officers were highly dependent on children 's testimonies . |
| 27 | Richard Pulteney believed that these two doctors , together with Rutherford , Sinclair and Plummer were responsible for Edinburgh 's reputation as one of the finest medical schools in Europe , and Miller preferred Alston 's Medical Essays to ‘ all the Modern Books of Physick ’ . |
| 28 | The frescos also had high carbon levels , and these were responsible for the darkening of the paintings . |
| 29 | In 1972 it was realised that this property depended on a separate histamine receptor ( H2 ) which was different from histamine ( H1 ) receptors in the lung and elsewhere , which were responsible for the allergic action of histamine . |
| 30 | It is evident from this that the contractors were responsible for many of the details and not a little of the basic design . |