Example sentences of "[pron] responsibility for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEC directors have already persuaded the Home Office to hand them responsibility for smartening up the employment prospects of black and brown Britons . |
| 2 | As well as working in the parish , Mrs Sumner was very conscious of her responsibility for training her children and creating a Christian home . |
| 3 | Once it has been accepted that they need continuing care their responsibility for maintaining themselves is removed . |
| 4 | They can be bare records of numbers and events or they can be windows on a living school and most heads will be able to think of ways in which reports can be used to enrich governor perceptions , prompt good questions and solicit positive advice and support as soon as they have made a breakthrough into a sense of their responsibility for creating a favourable climate . |
| 5 | However , a consequence of this autonomy is their responsibility for seeing that housework gets done . |
| 6 | The most deleterious situations were those where general managers abdicated their responsibility for setting strategic direction to staff planners … . |
| 7 | added : ‘ This new campaign therefore draws employers ’ attention to their responsibility for assessing the potential problems , avoiding them where possible and making the workforce aware of how to approach manual handling tasks . |
| 8 | What matters is that the authorities exercise their responsibility for checking and double checking what happens on the ground . |
| 9 | Despite their responsibility for investigating lesser frauds , computer expertise is thin on the ground . |
| 10 | This is a powerful department , partly because of its responsibility for ensuring the financial health of the company but also because it controls the language and format in which the other functions draw up their expenditure plans and report progress against them . |
| 11 | Local government , with its responsibility for sweeping the streets and emptying dustbins , had always essentially been a humdrum business . |
| 12 | A new approach to assistance with housing costs , for example , may have to be considered both by DHSS , with concern for social security policy , and DOE , with its responsibility for housing policy . |
| 13 | The West 's involvement in Iraq gave it responsibility for dealing actively with the situation there , despite the mealy-mouthed excuses for allowing Saddam Hussein to survive . |
| 14 | This was his responsibility for protecting the rights , lands , and privileges of the church of Canterbury . |