Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] responsibility for " in BNC.

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1 Under LMS , where governing bodies are given responsibility for matters that affect health and safety , they will be potentially liable for any offences against the 1974 Health and Safety Act caused by their decisions .
2 To ensure that hospital consultants — whose decisions effectively commit sums of money — are involved in the management of hospitals ; are given responsibility for the use of resources ; and are encouraged to use those resources more effectively .
3 The " game " is one in which the people on the outside are given responsibility for those on the inside , crossing the circle with their eyes closed .
4 For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region .
5 Vista Chemical , the American subsidiary of the German Company RWE-DEA has been given responsibility for the worldwide marketing of linear alkylbenzene .
6 At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel .
7 The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside .
8 It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers .
9 It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches .
10 The Commission has also been given responsibility for developing a broad Community recognised vocational training pass , but this will have to be built upon current activity in this area .
11 A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR .
12 A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR .
13 A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR .
14 A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service .
15 A single Minister will be given responsibility for coordinating London 's transport services .
16 The idea of the clinical directorate is that the groupings of service providers can be given responsibility for organising their work including its planning and budgeting control .
17 The study did not show any major differences between doctors and nurses , indicating that nurses who are specifically trained to assess attempted suicide patients and who work in a team where there is a psychiatrist available for consultation and supervision can be given responsibility for the initial assessment of these patients .
18 Therefore , argue Trist et al. , the work group has to be given responsibility for the entire cycle of operations , and for handling the interdependence between those on different shifts .
19 Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors .
20 A specific senior nurse should be given responsibility for updating the establishment profile as a result of planned developments in service which affect staffing requirements anywhere within the Health Authority .
21 Additionally , the nurses can be given responsibility for determining how they will allocate the hours between themselves and on which days they will report for duty .
22 a lead authority structure — one authority would be given responsibility for water and sewerage services for its own and surrounding areas .
23 Specifically , governors should be given responsibility for defining the broad aims of the school ; they in turn should invite the head and staff to devise means of pursuing them , and should themselves monitor the school 's progress towards them .
24 After the Tay floods , calls were made for SEPA to be given responsibility for flood prevention schemes — at present a discretionary duty of regional councils .
25 We need a conception of ourselves in the universe not as the master species but as the servant species : as the one being given responsibility for the whole and for the good of the whole .
26 In 1902 the county councils were given responsibility for the planning and provision of secondary education .
27 A rough rule-of-thumb was that landowners controlled the rural county councils and farmers the rural district councils ( which were given responsibility for housing ) .
28 So when the Training and Enterprise Councils were given responsibility for a new stream of scheme they said quite rightly I think that they would only support survivable businesses .
29 Some functional departmentation remains ( eg manufacturing , distribution , marketing and sales ) but a divisional manager is given responsibility for the product , product line or brand , with authority over the personnel of different functions involved in its production marketing etc .
30 Mr Lucas said Michael worked for Bond Corporation for around five years and was trusted so greatly he was given responsibility for the security of international VIPs who visited Western Australia during Bond 's America 's Cup defence three years ago .
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