Example sentences of "responsibility for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On both occasions his injuries led to enforced absences during which Pateman generously assumed responsibility for much of the District 's administrative work . |
| 2 | In practice this rarely seems to work and the school needs to take responsibility for much of the incidental training . |
| 3 | Boise , Idaho-based Morris Knudsen Corp says it has received a contract from IBM Corp to assume responsibility for much of the distribution function at the distribution centre in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania ; IBM Mechanicsburg is the central distribution centre for all parts that IBM uses in maintenance . |
| 4 | For a variety of reasons , most colleges in Wales have organized themselves into ‘ consortia ’ for the purpose of technician education , mostly clustering round a ‘ senior ’ institution with a traditional responsibility for much of the higher technician work . |
| 5 | Responsibility for much of the killing was attributed to remnants of the Tontons Macoutes , the widely feared militia of the Duvaliers which had remained active since 1986 and had supported the Avril regime . |
| 6 | Non-belief in God also means there is no way of shirking collective responsibility for each other and the planet . |
| 7 | That is to say , there was someone with the responsibility for each operation accountable to ‘ somebody at the top ’ . |
| 8 | The day-to-day responsibility for each agency lies with a chief executive . |
| 9 | We insist the conceptual design , and I 'm underlining conceptual design , is the responsibility of the function and section engineers , who have bottom line responsibility for each project . |
| 10 | Each inventoried object is the direct responsibility of a named curator , the collecting officer , who signs a formal declaration of responsibility for each object when it is acquired . |
| 11 | Did Hollywood and the underground film-makers , in particular , hold any responsibility for such behaviour ? |
| 12 | Even at the time it seemed to me that it was pointless to be vindictive or even to allot responsibility for such happenings . |
| 13 | Final responsibility for such matters as deciding on the suitability of foster homes was devolved to twelve regional committees formed to coincide with the boundaries of the government-designated defence areas . |
| 14 | There is , inevitably to the extent that central government funding is involved , ultimate central government responsibility for such enterprises , but this is a matter of organisational preference rather than of constitutional dictate . |
| 15 | ‘ The myth of the political neutrality of technology is frequently invoked both by politicians , seeking to explain the effects that a particular technological development has on society , and by the technologist , seeking to disclaim responsibility for such effects . |
| 16 | No one likes to bear the responsibility for such decisions . |
| 17 | The principle of non-intervention has given way to the need for legal response to international wrong-doing , coupled with responsibility for such acts . |
| 18 | He joined the leisure and later the entertainments division , where he later became director , with responsibility for such venues as Talk of the Town , Belle Vue Zoo , Blackpool , Eastbourne and Yarmouth piers and a caravan park . |
| 19 | May I ask you , Mr. Speaker , to seek some way to force , make , persuade or otherwise cajole the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who has responsibility for such matters to make a statement to the House ? |
| 20 | I have received no request for a statement , but the hon. Gentleman 's point of order will have been heard by those Ministers with responsibility for such matters . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) In appointing members of the Funding Council the Secretary of State — ( a ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , the provision of further education ( within the meaning of section 1(5) ( b ) of the 1980 Act ) or to have held , and to have shown capacity in , any position carrying responsibility for the provision of such further education and , in appointing such persons , he shall have regard to the desirability of their being currently engaged in the provision of such further education or in carrying responsibility for such provision ; and ( b ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , industrial , commercial or financial matters or the practice of any profession . |
| 22 | This process is complicated by the differences in salary , qualification and experience which exist between field social workers who hold legal responsibility for such children and their residential colleagues who provide care for those children who are placed in children 's homes . |
| 23 | ‘ We know our feeling of revulsion is shared by the overwhelming majority of the people in Ireland , as well as Britain , who bear no responsibility for such outrageous acts perpetrated by a very small faction , ’ they said . |
| 24 | Maurice Adams , formerly Deputy Director with responsibility for new developments in the UK and overseas , is now General Manager of Acet with responsibility for all ACET operations . |
| 25 | Toton took over responsibility for all Railfreight Coal traction used in the Midlands , North West , Yorkshire and North East districts , comprising some 250 locomotives of Classes 20 , 56 and 58 . |
| 26 | Thus , in much the same way as the Bundesbank chairman , Dr Karl Otto Poehl , has been at pains to preserve the monetary integrity of the new Europe , so the Cartel Office is disturbed about abrogating to Brussels responsibility for all mergers involving a turnover of less than $5billion . |
| 27 | He has the responsibility for all the editing . |
| 28 | This proposes a Scottish parliament with very limited tax-raising powers , which would have responsibility for all matters now administratively devolved to the Scottish Office , and for ‘ industrial development ’ , though nobody knows just what this means . |
| 29 | Dusty will have overall responsibility for all of the club 's rugby from the youth to the first team squad . |
| 30 | The overall responsibility for all these classes continued as a joint University/WEA partnership . |