Example sentences of "[prep] responsible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leavis held firm to the idea that any kind of responsible discussion of literature was a critical act , so that the academic was inescapably engaged in criticism when lecturing or conducting a seminar . |
| 2 | He inspired the Prince , worked alongside him , coached him in the ways of business , schooled him in the art of responsible land management , encouraged him to try out new ideas , and helped turn the Duchy from a non-profit making concern into one that five years later had made net profits of £1.46 million . |
| 3 | This is a perfect picture of responsible parenthood , whether we are talking about human or divine parenthood . |
| 4 | With the onset of responsible adulthood , hero-worship curdles to sour disappointment . |
| 5 | It was in favour of retaining the existing partnership in adult education between voluntary bodies ( notably the WEA ) , the universities , the local education authorities and the Ministry of Education ; the Ministry should continue to grant-aid the teaching costs of Responsible Bodies , local authorities ( if sympathetic ) their administrative costs ( Recommendations 1 , 4 , 13 ) . |
| 6 | This , he said , is the expensive bit of Responsible Care . |
| 7 | Modern capitalism has democratised the ownership of property , and we are now witnessing the democratisation of responsible citizenship . ’ |
| 8 | At a conference for chief executives to mark the third anniversary of Responsible Care , David Heathcoat-Amory , under secretary of state for energy , said that he was ‘ very impressed with the way that the [ chemical ] industry is moving forward to grasp the environmental challenge ’ . |
| 9 | Those who believe in delegation say that the elected representative is presumably a responsible person and a committee of responsible persons should be entrusted with responsibility . |
| 10 | They depend on an appropriate display of responsible behaviour , and the circumstances in which they are to be given must be made explicit . |
| 11 | Commitment leads on to a feeling of responsible ownership , and then pride . |
| 12 | That war was justified where self-defence demanded violent measures few of the fathers had denied ; but the consistent effort of responsible churchmen down to the tenth century was to curb the warlike proclivities of the military classes , and , as time passed , to threaten ever direr penalties on those engaged in unholy war . |
| 13 | In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could . |
| 14 | In private , some of Labour 's medicine men and some MPs were furious the leadership had n't gone tooth and claw for the Conservatives ; that in their determination to look and play the part of responsible government , they neglected to hammer the real Government responsible for real problems . |
| 15 | I 'm sure there are lots of responsible Rottweiler owners , but they tend to put dogs before children . |
| 16 | Government was the ‘ progressive realisation of responsible government in India as an integral part of the Empire ’ . |
| 17 | In Parliament , he was one of the young Conservative MPs who welcomed , from a position of strength as they thought , the accession of Labour into British political life , and set about educating it in the arts of responsible participation in the polity . |
| 18 | Forcing children to acknowledge sexuality at an early age and face up to adult problems is not going to raise a generation of responsible adults — it is far more likely to breed a generation of confused and unhappy children . |
| 19 | The Currabinny Community Association then provided a long list of other sources of responsible relevant information . |
| 20 | Such a crisis , Henderson feared , would provide Lloyd George with the opportunity to play the patriotic card and crush Labour 's growing appeal as the party of responsible pacifism . |
| 21 | The supranational principle was diluted by the retention of an executive body representing national interests , and the extent of responsible government would be limited . |
| 22 | The critics attacked the ‘ detailed time-wasting and expensive procedure involved in the proposals ’ , and deplored the second-guessing of the decisions of responsible Boards which they implied . |
| 23 | Kellmer Pringle argues that we need a concept of responsible and informed parenthood and a recognition that the ability and willingness to undertake the responsibilities of parenthood are not dependent on , or necessarily a consequence of , biological parenthood . |
| 24 | On one level the policy of local agencies evolves in a way that is ‘ disjointed ’ and ‘ incremental ’ and could be seen as the antithesis of responsible party policy-making . |
| 25 | This is what a lot of responsible people think has actually happened or logically will happen soon enough despite what Novell , USL and AT&T are saying publicly . |
| 26 | The Government is promoting Compacts because it recognises that there will be a shortfall in supply of responsible and qualified young people over the next few years . |
| 27 | The resultant graphic CV was instrumental in convincing an employer ( who had difficulty in understanding Joseph 's curious , staccato speech ) that he was capable of responsible work . |
| 28 | What then are the conditions necessary for the existence of responsible government ? |
| 29 | In my practice we increased our practice nurse staffing by 50% and provided a range of responsible and relevant health promotion clinics , in the spirit of the 1990 charter , but now face the prospect of a substantial reduction in income or to make the nurses redundant . |
| 30 | In the fiercely free enterprise USA , home ownership , as in the UK , is the mark of responsible citizenship , and home ownership is just what the 12 people living in the clapboard house have achieved . |