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

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1 Thirdly , our policy analysis and research team , takes responsibility for looking further ahead , and doing a lot of the initial thinking about both the challenges and the opportunities that will affect the sector domestically and internationally over the next few years .
2 Finally , the DSS takes responsibility for meeting the financial needs of the mentally disordered , mainly through the National Insurance and income support schemes .
3 As it is , it 's the family who takes responsibility for denying the baby existence , though permitting its death rather than allowing its life .
4 Mushrooms are usually collected daily and Wilgro takes responsibility for grading and marketing .
5 And it says The Tory government which must which must take responsibility for setting up a rapacious duopoly of generating companies .
6 But an integrated set of policies of this nature is impossible in a period of political paralysis , because ( a ) nobody will take the initiative to devise it , and ( b ) nobody will take responsibility for implementing it .
7 The panel should also take responsibility for agreeing the remuneration of the assessors .
8 They should take responsibility for designing shifts and accept that shifts should be changed rather than discarded if they do not work .
9 No one would take responsibility for off-loading it , and Captain Pintar and his Yugoslav crew would not fly with it .
10 She will need much support and it is hoped that London teachers , who had first been suggested as overall organisers , will give her particularly strong backing and will take responsibility for running the Raffle .
11 And that is the significance of James Baker 's speech announcing that the United States would take responsibility for rebuilding Iraq and Kuwait .
12 He should take responsibility for doing so or accept responsibility for his party 's vote at the next election , when Labour will be returned .
13 The pack says social workers should take responsibility for ensuring the forms are completed but they can be filled in by the person the child is living with .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 We must also encourage a few enthusiasts to specialise further , taking responsibility for coordinating teaching in their departments .
21 ‘ I am interested in organisational development , in individuals taking responsibility for their own learning , and in line managers taking responsibility for facilitating development of their staff ’ …
22 Facilitation means taking responsibility for making the fundamental changes necessary for true integration , whilst accepting the direction for that change from Disabled people 's own organisations .
23 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 .
24 The Notts & Derbyshire branch has taken responsibility for publishing the region 's CPD Newsletter .
25 In addition , one partner had taken responsibility for overseeing the whole process .
26 Since the Clean Air Act of 1956 governments in the UK have taken responsibility for designating clean air zones in which certain types of pollution , notably the smoke caused by burning coal , are illegal .
27 The person applying must have taken responsibility for arranging the funeral .
28 But from 20 onwards , I would have to take responsibility for managing my own life . ’
29 In that case , it has to take responsibility for allocating all foreign exchange to the users by administrative methods .
30 The course is adapted for each group , and the group itself has to take responsibility for completing the assigned tasks .
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