Example sentences of "responsible [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly this latter process , desirable as it might be to stem the antics of a few irresponsible councils , has spilled over into Local Government generally with the unfortunate effect that many responsible authorities have been greatly frustrated in their legitimate desire to provide adequate services in their area . |
| 2 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 3 | Observations and comments on the proposal were requested by the B.R.B. in early 1948 from their various departmental heads and all responsible personnel involved , which included the Llandudno Junction Motive Power District , then coded 7A , which was responsible for the garage depots at Bangor ( 7B ) , Holyhead ( 7C ) , Rhyl ( 7D ) and its sub-shed at Denbigh . |
| 4 | It is easy to berate parties and governments for their failures and shortcomings with respect to programmes and implementation , but the conception of government by responsible parties requires certain things of the general public . |
| 5 | Measures he suggested included oil companies working with other responsible parties to develop a comprehensive and impartial body of scientific research and expertise to advise on policies . |
| 6 | Then the building becomes prey to something much more serious : arson — a vicious crime that all too many supposedly responsible organizations seem happy to let flourish . |
| 7 | ‘ Responsible parents do n't keep babies in smoke-filled rooms . |
| 8 | Responsible parents do n't smoke while they are near their baby , ’ she said . |
| 9 | I believe we should support responsible organisations campaigning on behalf of animals for two reasons : |
| 10 | In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could . |
| 11 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |
| 12 | Responsible farmers have always combined efficient farming with care for the countryside . |
| 13 | Such a formidable enlargement of business and records entailed a corresponding increase not only in the responsible officers listed above but also among the common clerks who wrote and shelved the records . |
| 14 | The role of his papers , he told me , was to shake people in key positions out of their ‘ colonialist attitudes ’ : too many of those in responsible positions had ‘ jumped into the shoes of the departing expatriate and taken over his whole approach to the job ‘ . |
| 15 | Because all believers are affected by these developments , each of us is called to adapt to changing situations and to discover effective and responsible ways to use the communications media for God 's glory and for the service of his creation . |
| 16 | For the Church , that it may discover effective and responsible ways to use the communications media for the glory of God , the proclamation of the Gospel , and the service of his creation . |
| 17 | For the Church , that it may discover effective and responsible ways to use the communications media for the glory of God , the proclamation of the Gospel , and the service of his creation . |
| 18 | The criteria used by regulators or responsible bodies to deem information sensitive should be made public . |
| 19 | But it seems that the principal focus of the section 25 duty is not on correcting cases of illegality but rather on ensuring that LEAs and responsible bodies play ‘ a positive role in relation to the elimination of sex discrimination ’ . |
| 20 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that the recent statement by the Attorney-General about his reluctance to exercise his discretion applies only to the civil action of injunction ; that the Shops Act 1950 is not suspended ; that the reference to the European Court on the issue does not prevent or place any obstacle in the way of criminal proceedings for breach of that Act ; and that it is perfectly open to the responsible bodies to bring such proceedings ? |
| 21 | The grant-aid formula for Responsible Bodies provided 75% of fees paid to tutors but no contribution was made through grant-aid towards the costs of administration , organisational expenditure or other promotional educational activity at District level . |
| 22 | The discussion here will be confined to self-interested goals ; consideration of ‘ socially responsible ’ motives will be deferred until Chapter 9 , which will conclude that sacrificing profits for socially responsible ends does not occur on a scale sufficient to raise serious doubts about the commitment of managers to profitability ( or whatever other , self-interested goals may predominate ) . |
| 23 | Similar strategies may eventually also allow screening for NHPCC , peutz-jeghers , and juvenile polyposis one the responsible genes have been identified . |
| 24 | Responsible leaders want to know how people are growing in their understanding of the Christian faith , whether relationships are deepening and extending throughout the church-fellowship , and to what extent the Christian presence is evident in the community outside . |
| 25 | Britain is in an economic mess and we need level-headed , responsible leaders to pull us out of it . |
| 26 | Chapter 5 , on the New Testament ( DV 17–20 ) , likewise partly consists of rather conventional summaries ; but it does deal , firmly yet flexibly , with questions of the historicity of the Gospels , and agrees that the development of the Gospel tradition was influenced by oral transmission and preaching ( for allowing which , responsible scholars had been accused of heresy ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I simply ca n't believe that responsible adults allowed a child to wander the streets . |