Example sentences of "are responsible for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 While education authorities are responsible for indemnifying host employers in the case of accidents , teachers and trade unionists should nevertheless take care that adequate health and safety precautions are in operation .
2 Line managers are responsible for allocating you work , setting and monitoring the general standards of conduct and performance they require from you at work and helping you perform to the best of your ability .
3 Not only will this worsen the symptoms of ‘ jet-lag ’ and any problems associated with shift-work but also it impairs the effectiveness of many systems which are responsible for controlling the body .
4 Chiefly they are responsible for hiring coaches to away matches and for getting occasional petitions signed .
5 It is an exciting and challenging time for local government solicitors who are responsible for advising members and fellow officers on the legal implications of the reforms and are directly involved in their successful implementation .
6 Although the greatest proportion of actuaries are employed by life assurance companies , a big and growing proportion are responsible for advising the large number of self-administered pension schemes .
7 If this is not a practical reality , then any effort to counter discrimination against older consumes must come from the other side of the fence ; from manufactures of user-friendly products , from retailers in the way they present goods for sale , and from those who are responsible for creating the environment in which shops trade .
8 The major changes in their economic position which began in the late nineteenth century and have lasted until the present , essentially are responsible for creating the dependence of younger people which now appears such a natural part of human life .
9 Professors are responsible for conducting and promoting teaching and research in their subjects .
10 Like the testes , the ovaries are responsible for producing sex hormones .
11 Q17 Identify the major environmental factors which are responsible for producing change in markets .
12 The managers in the functional departments are responsible for determining how to make their contributions considering other tasks which they have to perform .
13 It is popular to believe that managers are responsible for developing their people but closer examination reveals this to be a nonsense .
14 But it does urge all who are responsible for ordering the worship of parish churches to be sensitive to the variety of people who constitute our congregations .
15 They are responsible for sending intractable wastes out of the country , at their expense , for treatment .
16 The survey of district managers — who are responsible for buying health care for the people in their area — by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts showed that : FEWER than half support the system of opt-out hospitals .
17 As chairman you are responsible for calling the meeting , holding it together , and devising an effective way of working .
18 Sec. you are responsible for calling the meeting .
19 Some of these are responsible for capturing and digesting food , while others form the gas-filled blue balloon which allows the animal to float on the sea 's surface .
20 In addition , the Directors are responsible for taking reasonable steps to safeguard the assets of the Group and to detect or prevent fraud .
21 Police believe children , some as young as 14 , are responsible for taking small amounts of food and money .
22 The functional managers are responsible for choosing the right staff , for instructing them and for the result with regard to quality , quantity and cost .
23 These boards include head office and field representatives , who are responsible for recommending to the ES Executive Board the way forward in each case .
24 Two sites ( P and G ) on PLC- β1 are responsible for interacting with G aq .
25 The company 's executive managers are responsible for managing the organization that is set up , not necessarily for managing the change work itself .
26 In the ES Market Testing Unit , we are responsible for managing the ES programme .
27 It must be affordable to those who are responsible for financing it ( for example , the government or the local people ) .
28 The governors are responsible for seeing that the demands of the law are met and that the school teaches the National Curriculum , and in county schools .
29 Tutors are responsible for seeing that these are completed before the Practical Examination .
30 How can the council tax be easy to collect if the people who are responsible for collecting it simply do not know how much they must collect from each household ?
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