Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] responsibility for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can people who read it believe it to be objective and thorough when those who prepared it did not consult the agency that has the statutory responsibility for preparing flood prevention plans and for carrying out works to prevent flooding ? |
| 2 | In units which employ a multidisciplinary approach , each patient might be allocated one member of staff ( a ‘ primary therapist ’ ) who has the main responsibility for dealing with the patient 's problems . |
| 3 | I think I can assure you , we 've got a , an international European officer , who has the main responsibility for opening the doors for us in a lobbying way within Europe , and in addition to that , and the maintenance of the networks , we are spreading international and European responsibilities around the organisation , so it 's seen again to be integral to our work , rather than compartmentalised , and I 'm confident that the organisation as a whole , will therefore be doing more . |
| 4 | The European Community has a particular responsibility for promoting and popularising language teaching at every level — within primary as well as secondary schools , and amongst adults as well as young people . |
| 5 | That Committee is at a remove from the day to day problems that harass the project members , and has a special responsibility for drawing attention to underlying problems and longer term implications . |
| 6 | When ageing parents become increasingly unable to look after themselves , a daughter may assume the main responsibility for caring for them . |
| 7 | ‘ Stateless societies ’ have existed , in which political conflicts and decisions are bound up with kinship relations , or with religious conceptions and rituals , and all or most adult members of society may participate in these activities , without any specialized group of people being able to claim a particular responsibility for carrying them on . |
| 8 | The valuable contribution of the teacher 's aid is , as the name implies , a help to the teacher , but it is the teacher who takes the main responsibility for preparing work in a clear way for all pupils , including those who are visually handicapped . |
| 9 | SCOTVEC 's eight Sector Boards will have the key responsibility for investigating the acceptability of particular groups of units . |
| 10 | In residential units shift teams should be appropriately balanced and specific members of staff should not have the sole responsibility for employing physical restraint . |
| 11 | It was wrong , so the Inquiry judged , to expect a central body to possess the primary responsibility for maintaining standards , particularly if the institutions had now reached ‘ maturity ’ . |
| 12 | On the shoulders of these characters would rest a final responsibility for conveying four of the six principles of TV drama out to the audiences at home . |
| 13 | Even if the Western powers were to act now with speed , resolution and cohesion they will never escape the moral responsibility for having dithered . |
| 14 | Sixty per cent carry the main responsibility for supporting the disabled or elderly person compared with only 46 per cent of male carers , while the latter are more likely to play a role which is ancillary to another main carer — 42 per cent compared with 31 per cent of female carers ( Evandron , 1990 , p. 15 ) . |
| 15 | Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | Coverage of all kinds can be both favourable and unfavourable — no matter whether politicians are in government or in opposition — and politicians themselves must bear the prime responsibility for ensuring that when they do get access to the media they present their own case well . |
| 17 | Conservatives will continue to argue that in the private sector , competition must bear the principal responsibility for protecting the individual 's interests . |
| 18 | Studies of ( white ) low-income households have described how women commonly manage the weekly budget and take the major responsibility for making ends meet . |
| 19 | I have asked , and to take the major responsibility for seeing it through , and you will hear more from them soon ! |
| 20 | Even where it is positively established that the right person was questioned , who by being present at the time had the nominal responsibility for cleaning the surface in question , the true reason for the fault may lie elsewhere being the result of one or other of the following factors : |
| 21 | The resolution noted that most environmental pollution originated in the developed countries , which thus had the main responsibility for fighting it . |
| 22 | Here there was less social distance between head and staff , though the head accepted the main responsibility for initiating and leading . |
| 23 | Wardens had a general responsibility for keeping the king 's peace within his bailiwick , and in times of rebellion or disturbance he was naturally an important buttress of royal authority . |
| 24 | But resident tutors were much appreciated by the WEA : they were admirable colleagues for the tutor-organisers , doing what they could to help and advise the branches in their counties , and they had a particular responsibility for promoting Tutorial Classes . |
| 25 | If a teacher had no direct responsibility for ensuring that anything was produced it tended to involve them only marginally : |
| 26 | These doctors frequently have the sole responsibility for assessing the needs of patients who are brought to hospitals , for instance to casualty wards , in the middle of the night . |
| 27 | On Dec. 14 the Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution 45/94 which stressed the right of individuals to a healthy environment and noted that " as the main sources of pollution , the developed countries have the main responsibility for taking appropriate measures urgently " . |
| 28 | A ‘ home authority ’ is an authority which will accept a special responsibility for assisting colleagues and co-ordinate guidance and advice to companies based within its area , irrespective of their size or number of outlets . |