Example sentences of "give 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 ) .
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