Example sentences of "[noun] responsibility for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our decision to give the Commissioners of Inland Revenue responsibility for overseeing the work reflected our understanding of the demand in Scotland for consistency in the way in which taxes operate throughout Great Britain . |
| 2 | José María Mieres Muro ( Blanco ) took over from Raúl Lago Finsterwald responsibility for Housing and the Environment , pending a decision by the Party for the Government of the People ( PGP , part of the centre-left Nuevo Espacio coalition ) over whether to accept Lacalle 's invitation to join the government . |
| 3 | After careful consideration of the options it has been decided to move the studio to the Bar Council 's Warwick Court annex and transfer responsibility for managing and marketing the facilities to the Secretariat . |
| 4 | Legal systems abroad vary widely but the one common in many European countries derives from the Napoleonic Code and places responsibility for investigating suspicious or unnatural death upon the local magistrate . |
| 5 | The main proposal is that the government should support a move that the Energy Bill should give electricity boards responsibility for providing heat . |
| 6 | The Countryside Act of 1968 allowed local authorities to take a more positive role in environmental conservation and gave the Countryside Commission general responsibility for safeguarding the rural landscape . |
| 7 | Whereas the convention of ministerial responsibility holds ministers accountable for all departmental work ( see Chapter 14 ) , the FMI assigns to departmental cost-centre managers responsibility for securing value for money . |
| 8 | In their extreme forms , one type would preserve health authority responsibility for planning and meeting the needs of its population ( but would have many other problems ) , the other would make planning and the pursuit of local priorities impossible and co–lld probably not be operated with cash-limited budgets . |
| 9 | The economy 's heavy reliance on trade combined with government responsibility for maintaining the value of sterling , made the balance of payments a central issue of the political economy of the period [ Beckerman , 1972 ; Dornbusch and Fisher , 1980 ] . |
| 10 | Article 20 gives the government responsibility for determining and conducting national policy . |
| 11 | The first was a welcome reinterpretation of the doctrine of judicial independence which reasserted government responsibility for formulating sentencing policy while affirming the principle of non-interference in individual cases . |
| 12 | However , a provincial offical says privately that it merely outlines ‘ the need for commonality on such elements as income replacement and survivors ’ benefits but leaves to each province responsibility for determining the level of compensation ’ . |
| 13 | And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar . |
| 14 | This gives students responsibility for maintaining high standards in these areas . |
| 15 | In April responsibility for funding residential and nursing home care will be transferred from the Department of Social Security to local authority social services departments over a phased period of four years . |