Example sentences of "first responsibility be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unsurprisingly , given this position , he is insistent that Anglo-Saxon and philology be retained as essential features of English studies , even in the light of the growth of the discipline : " Our first responsibility is to our subject , and , as that expands , we must not look for more ingenious methods of selection but for more time to do it justice . |
| 2 | It is a truism , but worth stating for all that : as teachers , academics ’ first responsibility is to their teaching ( i.e. to their students ) ; it is not to their research . |
| 3 | ‘ Look — my first responsibility is to Division — |
| 4 | Is it within your power to draw the Prime Minister 's attention to the fact that his first responsibility is to the House of Commons , that there is a Prime Minister 's Question Time every Tuesday and Thursday and that we have a Foreign Secretary and a Secretary of State for Defence who are quite able to deal with international and defence commitments overseas ? |
| 5 | It is a creature of the Secretary of State for Wales and the right hon. Gentleman has shown that its first responsibility is to him and not to the local community . |
| 6 | As I see it my first responsibility is to my children and my parents . ’ |
| 7 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 8 | Leila 's first responsibility was to Ari and the boy . |
| 9 | Her first responsibility was to the children , she acknowledged with a sigh . |
| 10 | Edward 's first responsibility was for the receipt and expenditure of the money assigned for the operations , a responsibility discharged through a special exchequer set up in 1246 , over which he presided . |