Example sentences of "[adj] responsibility for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The next step was to split the project into manageable categories where individuals could take specific responsibility for producing and getting acceptance for a group of procedures . ’
2 The RHA felt that it had sufficient grounds for proceeding with the initiative , and it was proposed to make ‘ one or more senior appointments … with specific responsibility for coordinating plans and ensuring implementation ’ .
3 The first requirement is to identify staff with specific responsibility for promoting the organisation 's image throughout the community .
4 The LASMO Arts Trust has specific responsibility for arranging the festival and providing financial support to all finalists .
5 They are used as reserves of migrant labour and ray materials , to which the developed centre can export its unemployment when necessary : the importance of sovereignty is that a Bantustan carries political responsibility for handling the consequences of economic downturn , while the developed centre carries little or none .
6 In concrete terms this could involve gradually introducing incidental activities of fetching and returning materials and taking messages , until the pupil is finally able to take total responsibility for getting about unaided and coping with all aspects of the environment on the school campus .
7 The view also implies that the teacher is seen by pupils as having total responsibility for leading and controlling the work that is going on in the classroom .
8 The franchising of services with total responsibility for pricing in the hands of operators may well bring many new local marketing ideas .
9 Panic assumed the Defence portfolio and gave Minister without Portfolio Ljubisa Rakic responsibility for co-ordinating the government 's international activities .
10 Carers living in the same household as the person receiving care , female carers , those with sole responsibility for providing care and those who were not economically active were especially disadvantaged .
11 In residential units shift teams should be appropriately balanced and specific members of staff should not have the sole responsibility for employing physical restraint .
12 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 .
13 Furthermore , highlighting parental responsibility for ensuring regular attendance may deflect schools from examining their own practice , and asking why some pupils find schools unattractive places to be .
14 In these authorities the function of ‘ filling in ’ important works not ordered by the areas is given to a central resources unit , a team of professional librarians headed by the bibliographical services officer , with authority-wide responsibility for selecting published works of any importance .
15 District health authorities should cease to have direct responsibility for managing the hospitals and units .
16 ‘ Line functions are those which have direct responsibility for achieving the objectives of the company .
17 If a teacher had no direct responsibility for ensuring that anything was produced it tended to involve them only marginally :
18 As Donnison says , ‘ The crucial needs arise from an unavoidable responsibility for caring for someone who depends on you ’ ; as Fairbairn says , ‘ Dependency is the key to women 's oppression .
19 The crucial needs arise from an unavoidable responsibility for caring for someone who depends on you .
20 Even when intervention is compatible with official pay restraint policy , it may still be covert since politicians may not wish to take public responsibility for influencing the outcome of a specific case and prefer to see the opprobrium attached to management .
21 Whilst the pure search work may be sub-contracted to other specialist departments , MAS should have principal responsibility for monitoring the progress of the search process ( particularly ensuring that time is not being spent researching targets outside the purchaser 's price range ) and drawing together all the findings .
22 Conservatives will continue to argue that in the private sector , competition must bear the principal responsibility for protecting the individual 's interests .
23 Secondly , much effort over the years has gone into education for road safety , though the concentration on advice to adult pedestrians and training for children has the unfortunate effect of apparently placing on the victim the principal responsibility for avoiding an accident .
24 ( 2 ) Conflict with the general practitioner 's role as the patient 's advocate — Fundholding gives general practitioners an explicit and visible responsibility for rationing the health services made available to their own patients .
25 With entire responsibility for teaching and discipline , Hill had little time for original work ; but his edition ( 1816 ) of Artis Logicae Compendium by Henry Aldrich [ q.v. ] proved an acceptable university textbook , reaching a sixth edition in 1850 .
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27 Government accepted responsibility for keeping aggregate monetary demand at a level sufficient to ensure full employment or what was considered as far as possible to constitute full employment ( an unemployment rate of 1% or 2% was considered acceptable ) , and the annual Budget was to be used as the main instrument of economic policy .
28 The chairman , Mr. Lansberry , evidently stung by the refusal , accepted personal responsibility for approving a smaller refrigerator which was bought from a firm in the High Street for £80 .
29 Once at school , children can not be under constant adult surveillance and learning about safety and personal responsibility for maintaining a safe environment is an important dimension of their education .
30 Neither do they have any real appreciation of the hazards in the environment or a well-developed understanding of the concepts of safety and personal responsibility for maintaining safety .
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