Example sentences of "be responsible for [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Students are responsible for their own progress and the achievement and monitoring of their goals . |
| 2 | ‘ We now call our account managers entrepreneurs because they are responsible for their own budgets and for how they spend and allocate their funds . ’ |
| 3 | Production workgroups are responsible for their own quality control , reduced production faults results in declining rectification time and higher output ( Grikitis , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | As The Rank Organisation has a fairly flat management structure , Rank Restaurants executives are responsible for their own policy and strategy . |
| 5 | Antonia , talking in London , said that at the end of the day ‘ you are responsible for your own actions ’ . |
| 6 | You are responsible for your own safety and that of your colleagues and should follow any health and safety rules which apply to your workplace . |
| 7 | A more significant change has been the separation of sales of ITV1 and Channel 4 : Channel 4 has been responsible for its own sales from January 1993 , and this has introduced the first genuinely competitive element into national commercial TV . |
| 8 | Further education colleges will gain new independence from April 1993 , and will be responsible for their own budgets . |
| 9 | From then , licencees will be responsible for their own transmitters , either owning or leasing them . |
| 10 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |
| 11 | Now those who can prove conclusively that they are self-employed will be responsible for their own tax deductions and claims . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The formation of a company therefore involves the creation of a new legal entity which is able to trade and be responsible for its own actions . |
| 14 | I insisted that the Unit must be responsible for its own training and operational planning and that , therefore , the Commander of the Unit must come directly under the C in C. I emphasised how fatal it would be for the proposed unit to be put under any existing branch or formation for administration . |
| 15 | One of the reasons for arranging it is to give you the chance to be responsible for your own learning while you are on the placement . |
| 16 | Aboriginal sacred sites appear to conform to this principle ; each tribe being responsible for its own section of line , visiting the sites at the appropriate season and performing traditional rituals and chants . |
| 17 | If a teacher leaves it up to the pupils to work on their own initiative , will they miss out on essential skills while coming to grips with being responsible for their own learning ? |
| 18 | Moreover , most self-employed contract computer staff are self-employed not only in the sense of being responsible for their own tax and paying Class II ( self-employed person 's ) social security contributions , but also in the sense of being one-man , limited companies . |
| 19 | or : No , the Liberals were responsible for their own decline . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |
| 22 | I too remember when Darlington was a county borough and we had a lovely town when we were responsible for our own efficiency and everything in the garden was lovely . |
| 23 | If , if , if , if it 's , if it 's , if it 's , if it 's two of you living in the house right the poll tax is n't paid by one person , it 's each person is , is responsible for their own poll tax |
| 24 | The hardest lesson for Gilly to learn is that she and nobody else is responsible for her own actions and that she has to live with her own mistakes . |
| 25 | Each recognised group receives an annual grant and is responsible for its own accounts . |
| 26 | Each group is responsible for its own quality control , is treated by management as a team , and there are opportunities for job rotation throughout the team , though the rotated jobs exclude supervision and materials handling . |
| 27 | There is only a small amount of centralised buying ; each department is responsible for its own buying and stock control . |
| 28 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 29 | We have to accept that each of us is responsible for our own preservation . |