Example sentences of "responsible for [pos pn] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agencies may charge an agency or booking fee , and staff may be self-employed and responsible for their own tax and national insurance contributions . |
| 2 | From then , licencees will be responsible for their own transmitters , either owning or leasing them . |
| 3 | In holding British films responsible for their own failure , industrialists were encouraged by the willingness of US producers to assert that the aim of the American film industry was ‘ to Americanize the world . ’ |
| 4 | The reorganisation under the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act of 1973 made the people of the Western Isles much more directly responsible for their own development through the elected ‘ Comhairle nan Eilean ’ or Western Isles Islands Council ( WIIC ) . |
| 5 | People , as well as animals , secrete substances called pheromones which are responsible for their own individual body scent . |
| 6 | Patients aged 18 or over are deemed legally responsible for their own actions , and it is often with great reluctance that they will agree to see a doctor and possibly begin treatment or undergo admission to hospital . |
| 7 | The drive to take more medicines off the prescription-only list is part of the Government 's aim to make people more responsible for their own health . |
| 8 | ‘ We now call our account managers entrepreneurs because they are responsible for their own budgets and for how they spend and allocate their funds . ’ |
| 9 | Allowing small farmers in the countryside to be responsible for their own plots of land and to sell any surplus above the state quota on the free market and the encouragement of small-scale private enterprises in urban areas brought about great changes in Chinese society . |
| 10 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |
| 11 | Bands were becoming self-contained , responsible for their own material and instrumentation , vocal performers were becoming younger and more individualistic , and from American music came a greater awareness of social issues in the confines of the pop song . |
| 12 | They are popular group , and the fiercest lobby in the business : no one asks of widows — as they do of unmarried mothers or the divorced — whether they were responsible for their own plight . |
| 13 | Thus the responsibility for unemployment would be seen to lie with the unemployed , who would then be seen to be personally responsible for their own unemployment , poverty , etc . |
| 14 | — Students are responsible for their own progress and the achievement and monitoring of their goals . |
| 15 | Production workgroups are responsible for their own quality control , reduced production faults results in declining rectification time and higher output ( Grikitis , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | All people were to be treated as fully responsible for their own actions , including their own offences . |
| 17 | Thus , whereas classicism 's image of human nature portrayed all human beings as being fully responsible for their own actions , Bentham saw criminals as having limited rationality and responsibility , but thought that they could be made more rational by the correct application of reformative techniques in his ‘ mill for grinding rogues honest ’ , as he called the Panopticon . |
| 18 | Moreover , most self-employed contract computer staff are self-employed not only in the sense of being responsible for their own tax and paying Class II ( self-employed person 's ) social security contributions , but also in the sense of being one-man , limited companies . |
| 19 | They were also responsible for their own medication — although it was common for users , families to ask staff to remind individuals to take it . |
| 20 | or : No , the Liberals were responsible for their own decline . |
| 21 | It is surely time that students , as adults in part responsible for their own higher education , were formally accorded the rights and academic respect they deserve , and the social relations between teacher and taught were made more equal . |
| 22 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |
| 23 | And each man , or perhaps been one or two men doing the one jo the one order and they was each responsible for their own and then you 'd got ta put your name down sometimes for a machine you know . |
| 24 | For example , the Chairman of the Board of Guardians for St Giles in East London considered that widows must be held in part responsible for their own condition : ‘ After the lapse of a certain number of years , when a widow has had the opportunity of showing providence on her own account , I think you may separate her from her late husband , but not immediately after his death ’ . |
| 25 | If teachers do not believe that their pupils are able to be more responsible for their own mathematical learning , then they are not likely to give them the opportunity to be so . |
| 26 | If a teacher leaves it up to the pupils to work on their own initiative , will they miss out on essential skills while coming to grips with being responsible for their own learning ? |
| 27 | Individuals will be responsible for their own personal development plans which will be measured against agreed standards of business performance . |
| 28 | People are becoming responsible for their own happiness and health , and for what 's happening to the planet . ’ |
| 29 | We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape . |
| 30 | As The Rank Organisation has a fairly flat management structure , Rank Restaurants executives are responsible for their own policy and strategy . |