Example sentences of "responsibility for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The inquiry recommended that the Secretary of State for Health clarify responsibility for after-care , that individual pre-discharge plans be specified and a register of designated patients be kept .
2 Seven years earlier Anselm had not seen the king 's responsibility for order in the Church as an expression of self-will fighting against Rectitudo .
3 Hewlett-Packard Co is to transfer worldwide responsibility for development and manufacturing of high-end plotters to its plant in Sant Cugat del Valles , outside Barcelona in Spain from San Diego under a $15.2m programme that will create over 100 jobs : the company will also concentrate manufacture of inkjet printers for Europe in Barcelona from the second half of next year ; Hewlett 's plants in Vancouver and Singapore will supply Deskjets for the rest of the world .
4 Responsibility for development and inspection was taken over by the Social Work Service and the work of the training council has been absorbed into the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work .
5 By separating responsibility for funding services from their provision , the Government hopes that providers will compete for contracts from health authorities , GP budget holders and private buyers of care .
6 This relates to matters such as the extent of budgetary authority , the responsibility for funding deficits , the control of the collection and disbursement of funds , and whether revenues collected are determined by the oversight unit .
7 Both Griffiths and the Audit Commission were critical of this expenditure which , they argued , cut across the declared policy of promoting community care , and in 1991 , in accordance with the Griffiths proposals , responsibility for board and lodging allowances will pass from the DSS to local authorities .
8 The borders of the former Soviet Union were currently guarded by the Committee for the Protection of State Borders with Joint Command of Border Troops , which had taken over the KGB 's responsibility for border troops , as approved by the Soviet of the Republics at its meeting on Dec. 3 .
9 Mr Rutskoi has already had responsibility for agriculture taken away , along with his official Mercedes and doctor .
10 In the various comments made by Lord Arran , as Minister with responsibility for agriculture , there are signs of this dilemma .
11 Very few took the position of Ada Nield Chew , who saw clearly how the position of working wives was complicated by their reproductive function , and who believed that women 's sole responsibility for home and children represented the chief impediment to self-fulfilment .
12 He was Mr Geoffrey Pattie , and he was given special responsibility for space ; numerous bullish stories appeared in the press about the likelihood of increased British space expenditure .
13 This included : the relationship of the material selected to the libraries ' objectives ; guidance on levels of provision in different sizes of library ; criteria for selection ; definition of community groups to be served ; policy on censorship ; comments on various types of material — e.g. paperbacks , audiovisual materials ; donations policy ; relationships with the book trade ; statements of responsibility for selection ; demographic information about the area .
14 Where a university administers a number of special subject or departmental collections physically separate from the main library , the tendency to have separate departmental funding and separate responsibility for selection is usually more pronounced .
15 This is a very wide range of services indeed , and the main responsibility for selection , at least in public libraries , seems to have shifted from library staff to library supplier staff .
16 The IPP is a system for mapping out individual goals , specifying means of achievement and assigning responsibility for progress .
17 Natural selection gives the responsibility for progress to the individuals who make up the population ; in seeking to do the best for themselves , they help to guarantee the future of their species .
18 Mr David Mellor , the Home Office Minister with responsibility for broadcasting , said the Government could have directly appointed members as it does with the BBC and the ITC , but decided — after pressure from Channel 4 — not to do so .
19 He will take over responsibility for broadcasting from the Home Office in addition to administering the new national lottery .
20 I certainly share Mr Walden 's hopes that David Mellor , whose new Cabinet post includes responsibility for broadcasting , will not allow his judgment to be swayed by those who , no doubt feeling the strain of the election campaign , now relish the prospect of a little BBC-bashing to relieve their feelings in the run-up to the renewal of the Corporation 's Charter .
21 We intend to create a new department , under a Cabinet Minister , with responsibility for broadcasting , arts , sport , tourism , the national heritage and the film industry .
22 Transfer responsibility for broadcasting to the new Ministry The BBC is a major patron of the arts , and broadcasting itself combines a variety of arts and crafts .
23 Political responsibility for broadcasting ( the RDF-RTF ( lay directly with the Prime Minister ) ‘ President du Conseil 's ) or with a junior minister delegated to that end — often the Information Minister ( such as Mitterrand in 1948 ) .
24 Because of the developing ideology of woman 's role in the family and her very special responsibility for society 's well being , it was women working outside the home who received the most attention from the parliamentary commissioners in the 1830s and 1840s .
25 Clearly the very notion that responsibility for child development is best shared among a range of people , with stimuli for education and play , attention for health matters and so on deliberately shared between parents and professionals , has immediate implications for the public response when families encounter difficulties in child care .
26 Central responsibility for child care rests with the Department of Social Security through the personal Social Services division .
27 At local level , responsibility for child care rests with the social services committees of the local authorities .
28 There is a particular need for teachers with special responsibility for child protection to be trained in multi-agency working and procedures .
29 It seemed that as mothers had usually hitherto had primary responsibility for child care , they were less likely than single fathers to neglect this function when trying to combine it with the role of breadwinner ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) .
30 The board yesterday decided to close 11 of its 77 community clinics after it was told that studies had shown that doctors ' practices were taking on responsibility for child health surveillance .
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