Example sentences of "the responsibility for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is indeed deplorable that the Government sets targets for a reduction in smoking but continues to place the responsibility for achieving these on health , education and voluntary sector while avoiding taking the action we consider essential . |
| 2 | Whatever the form of organisation for overseas selling , it is important that there should be a senior manager charged , if only in part , with the responsibility for exporting . |
| 3 | What remains true is that the responsibility for accounting standard-setting for companies is clear , as it is for the Government . |
| 4 | Management have the responsibility for accomplishing these objectives ; it is their responsibility to motivate staff and direct activities . |
| 5 | The answer … is not to resign ourselves to our women 's role — in a woman 's place — and demand payment for staying put , but to collectivise childcare , to share the responsibility for bringing up children within the community . |
| 6 | Having dismissed the Cabinet on Jan. 8 , the President on Jan. 21 , 1990 , reappointed the Prime Minister to his post and gave him the responsibility for bringing together a new ministerial team [ see p. 37174 ] , which was announced on Feb. 15 and sworn in on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37240 ] . |
| 7 | But the responsibility for sending out the grim , pathetic news was often his , and he hated it . |
| 8 | It is rare for the responsibility for causing conflict to rest solely on one side , and this may involve more than the organist and the minister . |
| 9 | Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities . |
| 10 | A health authority retains , of course , the responsibility for ordering its own budgetary priorities . |
| 11 | Later he bore the responsibility for maintaining his mother and siblings , after his father , given to drink and radicalism , had migrated to America in the wake of the Peterloo massacre ( 1819 ) . |
| 12 | The realism of Labour 's attitude towards foreign policy was reinforced by Bevin 's insistence , both at meetings of the National Executive ( to which he was specially invited ) and at the 1945 Labour Party Conference at Blackpool that it was essential to continue with military service while Britain retained the responsibility for maintaining occupation forces in Germany and elsewhere . |
| 13 | The Elizabethan poor law acts of 1598 and 1601 threatened beggars with a whipping and placed the responsibility for maintaining the poor on ‘ the Churchwardens of every parish and four substantial householders there … who shall be nominated yearly in Easter week under the hand and seal of two or more Justices of the Peace … [ and who ] shall be called overseers of the poor ’ . |
| 14 | This was , in Geary 's terminology , a pivotal period , in which the responsibility for controlling public-order situations passed , backwards and forward , between central government and local employer-magistrates . |
| 15 | According to Brazilian law the responsibility for controlling the sale and the use of mercury lies with the national institute for the environment , IBAMA and in theory these controls are very strict , all importers and dealers are supposed to be registered , and the use of mercury in any process and in whatever quantity , how ever small , requires an official permit . |
| 16 | It also has the responsibility for controlling the money supply , which largely consists of bank deposits . |
| 17 | As is also the case for other Amerindian leaders , he has the responsibility for peace-making . |
| 18 | But the aim must be to do this in a manner which allows scope for each individual child to share in the responsibility for initiating and carrying out the tasks through which learning takes place . |
| 19 | The C. and A. G. is given the responsibility for auditing all appropriation accounts by the 1921 Act . |
| 20 | Since the majority of elderly people requiring help are women , then a great deal of the responsibility for looking after them will fall on women 's shoulders . |
| 21 | Your article Ten ways to get cancer ( Cancer NI 198 ) was written in a negative and insensitive way and implied that the responsibility for getting the illness lies solely with the individual . |
| 22 | It then takes over the responsibility for verifying the design activity against activities and components already undertaken and designed . |
| 23 | More than a year later , in an interview with Politika ( 14 August 1987 ) , the prime Minister was still of the opinion that the responsibility for curbing inflation lay with ‘ everyone ’ , not just with the federal government . |
| 24 | By November 1948 , it was agreed that they could take over the responsibility for progressing work on the manufacture of plant and on-site construction from the Ministries of Supply and Works , and the following year they did so . |
| 25 | Its functions differ from those of English RACs in that , in addition to acting as an association of local authorities , as an examining board , and as an RAC , it also has the responsibility for promoting the Welsh language and culture in education . |
| 26 | It is the evaluators ' impression that the responsibility for producing agendas , convening and chairing meetings , and producing and circulating minutes has most often fallen to the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources and the ACL:E&SS but has remained throughout an area of uncertainty and indecision . |
| 27 | ‘ When , some time later , he and I discussed who might take over the responsibility for producing it I rejected the traditional drama types , who did the children 's serials , and said that I wanted somebody , full of vinegar , who 'd be prepared to break rules in doing the show . |
| 28 | She represents the responsibility for choosing life or death ; she encompasses the instinctive and physical processes of gestation and birth , our knowledge of these , and our ability to manipulate them . |
| 29 | It is much better that the district council should have the responsibility for choosing its own priorities . |
| 30 | The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank . |