Example sentences of "[vb past] responsibility for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concluded that he shared responsibility for hiring Sutton . |
| 2 | ‘ Over a year ago I happily , innocently , assumed responsibility for producing a new Picture Puffin spinner . |
| 3 | An organization calling itself the Mujahidin Kashmir claimed responsibility for planting bombs which exploded at two New Delhi police stations on April 10 , injuring nine policemen . |
| 4 | Almost exactly two years before the World Fair ( Expo-92 ) was due to open , ETA on April 22 formally declared war on the event and claimed responsibility for sending a parcel bomb which seriously injured a secretary at the Expo offices on April 19 . |
| 5 | The Galician separatist movement the First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group ( Grupo de Resistencia Anti-fascista Primero de Octubre — GRAPO ) claimed responsibility for killing two Civil Guards in Santiago de Compostela ( north-west Spain ) on March 10 , 1989 [ see p. 36777 ] . |
| 6 | Newspapers received phone calls to the effect that the shooting was the work of the left-wing Dev-Sol group , which also claimed responsibility for killing a policeman in the southern town of Adana on the same day . |
| 7 | GRAPO also claimed responsibility for placing bombs at the headquarters of the Catalan Socialist Party ( PSC-PSOE ) in Barcelona on Sept. 10 , and at a petrochemical plant near Tarragona on Sept. 9 . |
| 8 | It seemed to Brian that during each day his wife was never long without swallowing some pill or other which , when she was at home , either he or Edna took responsibility for administering . |
| 9 | Many husbands took responsibility for saving for such major items of expenditure as furniture or even boots out of the money they kept back for themselves . |
| 10 | For the first time the Federal government took responsibility for providing , with the co-operation of the states , old age pensions , unemployment benefits and help for such groups as the blind and the handicapped . |
| 11 | The point was that they should be managers who took responsibility for securing the best service to the patient and could be held to account if there was failure . |
| 12 | The other sister , Mary , was four years younger than Eleanor , and Froissart tells the story that Thomas took responsibility for educating Mary in the hope of persuading her to go into a nunnery , so that he would receive the entire Bohun inheritance . |
| 13 | Having decided that they would accept Mr Cowdrill as a franchisee , Athena took responsibility for finding him a suitable site , in a prime position in Sutton Coldfield . |
| 14 | At fifteen she accepted responsibility for bringing up her brothers and sisters . |
| 15 | As archbishop , he accepted responsibility for spreading and enforcing Latin doctrine and Benedictine monastic discipline throughout the alter orbis of Britain . |
| 16 | The Stock Exchange 's damning report was sent to the Bank of England and to the Department of Trade 's Licensing Unit , which had responsibility for allowing financial groups to stay in operation . |
| 17 | Reiner Gohlke , executive president of the Treuhandanstalt ( trustee agency ) which had responsibility for overseeing the restructuring of the state-owned businesses in East Germany , resigned on Aug. 20 because of policy disagreements with other members of the governing board [ see p. 37536 for his appointment where his post is wrongly given as chair ] . |
| 18 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 19 | The Social Services Department had responsibility for carrying out many of the recommendations of the conference . |
| 20 | It was during the Autumn term that certain staff had responsibility for contributing towards the self-appraisal report . |
| 21 | The Central Electoral Bureau , which included opposition representatives , had responsibility for ensuring the fairness of the vote at the 13,000 polling stations around the country and for scrutinising the ballots and adjudicating disputes . |