Example sentences of "the assumption of [noun] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the decision-making involved the assumption of responsibility by the Board for the Bedfordshire scheme , it is not surprising that the two WEA members of the Board and Frank Salter , the District Treasurer , who was a University nominated member , cast their votes in favour of the rural areas scheme . |
| 2 | The rural district council relied on the assumption of responsibility by the corporation in 1945 , while the corporation denied responsibility for the former rural district families and claimed that the 1956 Housing Act had made the rural district council responsible for all the families in the camp . |
| 3 | CENTO had already ceased to be a threat to the Soviet Union in the Middle East with the assumption of power by the Ba'ath Party in Iraq . |
| 4 | They called instead for the assumption of power by the NLD , which had won a landslide electoral victory in May 1990 but not been allowed to take office [ see pp. 37457-58 ] . |
| 5 | Kaufman maintains that in the United States rivalries between bureaus , each with its allies in congressional committees and powerful interests outside government , constitute an important barrier against the assumption of power by the bureaucracy ( Kaufman 1981 ) . |