Example sentences of "responsible for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The packings must also be marked in such a way as to enable the person responsible for their movements to be identified ; that person must undertake to supply any Customs officer with any information that may be necessary to ensure the proper application of this simplified procedure . |
| 33 | ‘ We now call our account managers entrepreneurs because they are responsible for their own budgets and for how they spend and allocate their funds . ’ |
| 34 | It would deny that men are responsible for their actions , make evil into a positive force . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |
| 37 | Who is responsible for their deaths ? |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | By that I do n't mean he could n't have been responsible for their deaths , I just mean that I do n't think he 's on speaking terms with his conscience . |
| 40 | The perpetrators are held to be responsible for their actions and there is an emphasis on retribution , not only against the murderer or murderers , but also against the social workers who , it is claimed , failed the child . |
| 41 | In fact , ‘ public notice ’ comprised for many years a small insertion in the classified advertisement section of two national daily papers and one local paper , jammed between husbands who were no longer responsible for their wives ' debts and the liquidation of bankrupt companies . |
| 42 | So British ministers are now trying to decide whether also to force British industry to recycle its waste packaging ( and perhaps other used products , too : Germany is proposing to make its car and electronics industries responsible for their worn-out goods ) . |
| 43 | The Kurator is a member of the school psychologist 's team who teaches children with special educational needs and is responsible for their careers education and work experience . |
| 44 | Welfare , in the broader view of which this approach to child care might be deemed a part , is construed in individual terms : individuals are deemed responsible for their conduct , and little weight is given to structural , environmental and material determinants of behaviour . |
| 45 | Under retributive justice punishment is justified because it is ‘ deserved ’ by free , choice-making individuals who are held responsible for their actions . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | It is quite appropriate that moral philosophers should group together children and madmen as beings not fully responsible for their actions , for as madmen are thought to lack freedom of choice , so children do not yet possess the power of reason in a developed form . |
| 48 | Given the knowledge it is always possible to hold someone responsible for their actions . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Indeed , during the observation period of various teaching units using computer programs we have seen the units used on many occasions in a very different fashion to that envisaged by the development team responsible for their design . |
| 51 | — Students are responsible for their own progress and the achievement and monitoring of their goals . |
| 52 | In the Christian communities , discussions on personal relations between both men and women placed emphasis on the need to make men more responsible for their families and take an equal part in domestic work . |
| 53 | Advantages include the fact that you are not responsible for their rents if they leave and that you have a clearly-defined personal space , however small . |
| 54 | Production workgroups are responsible for their own quality control , reduced production faults results in declining rectification time and higher output ( Grikitis , 1985 ) . |
| 55 | This was based upon an annual interview of all staff by the senior member of staff responsible for their work ( for example a head of faculty ) . |
| 56 | Each programme is operated by a group of people all working towards some organizational objective and headed by a manager who is responsible for their actions . |
| 57 | What was responsible for their emergence ? |
| 58 | All people were to be treated as fully responsible for their own actions , including their own offences . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | It follows that it is wrong to hold people responsible for their crimes and punish them in ways that imply that their crimes are their own fault . |