Example sentences of "of [v-ing] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who do you see as the sort of holding responsibility for training ? |
| 2 | The paper , designed to provoke discussion , considers the usefulness of civil liability as a means of allocating responsibility for the costs of remedying environmental damage and of preventing future damage . |
| 3 | Decisions have to be made on how to arrange the interface between manufacturing and sales , and in the area of delegating responsibility for international operations . |
| 4 | Perhaps you are blaming others for your stuckness , instead of taking responsibility for your own life ? |
| 5 | I met 15 women , all of whom said they wanted to learn machine knitting , but most of whom were afraid of taking responsibility for the machine . |
| 6 | Religion is often castigated for encouraging an attitude of dependence upon authority or tradition , which is at loggerheads with the attitude of taking responsibility for oneself . |
| 7 | Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something . |
| 8 | But this is just a way of avoiding responsibility for our lives . |
| 9 | Is it a way of avoiding responsibility for your life ? |
| 10 | Elsewhere there are commitments ranging from more women-only taxi services to the ironic symbolism of transferring responsibility for ‘ co-ordinating government policy on issues of particular concern to women ’ from the Home Office to the Department of Employment . |
| 11 | In the arrangement in my act , the song floats on top of a piano sonata : it 's the Brechtian thing of throwing responsibility for the sentiment to your audience . ’ |
| 12 | According to sources in Washington , officials in the Department of Commerce decided at the end of last year to recommend this strategy to the president as the most effective way of relinquishing responsibility for the US 's Landsat system . |