Example sentences of "[vb pp] responsibility for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 2 | A single Minister will be given responsibility for coordinating London 's transport services . |
| 3 | Additionally , the nurses can be given responsibility for determining how they will allocate the hours between themselves and on which days they will report for duty . |
| 4 | The Commission has also been given responsibility for developing a broad Community recognised vocational training pass , but this will have to be built upon current activity in this area . |
| 5 | Established by Congress on Aug. 2 , it was given responsibility for drawing up a plan within 150 days for the " pacification " of the country . |
| 6 | Specifically , governors should be given responsibility for defining the broad aims of the school ; they in turn should invite the head and staff to devise means of pursuing them , and should themselves monitor the school 's progress towards them . |
| 7 | UNESCO was given responsibility for organizing international sponsored Literacy Year ( 1990 ) and sponsored with UNICEF , the UNDP and the World Bank , the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien , Thailand , on March 5-9 [ see also p. 37335 ] . |
| 8 | The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside . |
| 9 | The idea of the clinical directorate is that the groupings of service providers can be given responsibility for organising their work including its planning and budgeting control . |
| 10 | Skinner was also given responsibility for liaising closely with the troika at the apex of Bush 's re-election campaign . |
| 11 | In 1919 he was also given responsibility for founding the new signals intelligence ( sigint ) agency , the Government Code and Cipher School ( GC and CS ) . |
| 12 | A specific senior nurse should be given responsibility for updating the establishment profile as a result of planned developments in service which affect staffing requirements anywhere within the Health Authority . |
| 13 | The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution . |
| 14 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 15 | The person given responsibility for solving the problem is known as a Problem Solver . |
| 16 | A rough rule-of-thumb was that landowners controlled the rural county councils and farmers the rural district councils ( which were given responsibility for housing ) . |
| 17 | When South-East Asia Command ( SEAC ) was formed in 1943 , Mountbatten was assigned responsibility for retaking Malaya and Sumatra . |
| 18 | * A US-based group , Sea Shepherd , has claimed responsibility for sabotaging a whaling ship in northwestern Norway in December . |
| 19 | The signatories of the Charter have accepted responsibility for maintaining the good code of practice and also agree to disseminate the document through their organisations , encouraging their managers to actively participate . |
| 20 | Society has accepted responsibility for seeing that their needs are met in a piecemeal fashion , tackling the most obvious needs first — those for financial provision , medical care and residential accommodation . |
| 21 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 22 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 23 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 24 | There was no 1940 general election and by 1945 the voters remembered both that the Labour Party had shared responsibility for winning the war and that it had opposed the Conservative policies which led to the war . |
| 25 | The parents assumed responsibility for helping the plaintiff to eat her midday and evening meals . |
| 26 | This sub system was set up and developed by the team who have retained responsibility for writing and testing programs for any new reporting requirement . |
| 27 | The dismissals followed the resignation of the chairman of the Doosan Electro-Materials Company , which had admitted responsibility for leaking highly toxic phenol waste into the Naktong River . |
| 28 | Gerard Harte , 27 , was convicted and sentenced by a Dutch court on April 2 to 18 years in prison for the Roermond murders of May 1990 , when the IRA had admitted responsibility for shooting two Australian tourists mistaken for UK service personnel [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 29 | A large number of problems has been encountered , one of the most surprising being the fact that no UK Government department had taken responsibility for enforcing the EEC controls on the sale of protected wildlife specimens . |
| 30 | The Notts & Derbyshire branch has taken responsibility for publishing the region 's CPD Newsletter . |