Example sentences of "responsibility [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Prince feels he has a responsibility as a landowner to set an example to others , always to take the humane or the conservationist route above the straight commercial .
2 Job enrichment is part of your general responsibility as manager .
3 At the Confirmation Mass each of us had our special responsibility as musician , reader or at the preparation of the gifts .
4 Assistance Publique 's responsibility as the community hospital system for the poor of Paris is constantly in danger of being overwhelmed by its newer role as the country 's leading provider of tertiary referral services .
5 No distinction is made for the Metropolitan Police , much the largest force in the country , where the Home Secretary has formal responsibility as the police authority .
6 As almost all TDs are now willing to admit , the obligation inherent in the STV to compete for votes by looking after the interests of constituents forces them to give less than proper attention to their prime constitutional responsibility as legislators .
7 A passage in Bede 's account attributing responsibility as the author of the war to Aethelhere , is now generally regarded as corrupt , but Oethelwald 's support for Penda certainly implies a complexity of factors .
8 He appeared to ignore her , saying his folly had been to believe one could sell a newspaper with as little responsibility as a man selling apples off a stall .
9 2.1 In its policy on violence to employees at work Lothian Regional Council has reaffirmed its continuing responsibility as an employer for ensuring , so far as is reasonably practicable , the health , safety and welfare of all of its employees .
10 ‘ My share of responsibility as a Senior Assistant Solicitor is to provide legal advice on social services and employment law .
11 A satisfactory audit will lead to the confirmation of devolved responsibility as part of the Quality Contract .
12 What will she do now , when it is her responsibility as Minister of State and the responsibility of the Home Secretary to do something about it ?
13 Greenpeace has called for a complete reorganization of the International Atomic Energy Authority ( IAEA ) , the UN regulatory body , on the grounds that its mandate to promote nuclear energy is incompatible with its responsibility as an international nuclear watchdog .
14 I then had a responsibility as the team leader to ensure that the rest of the house was secure and that none of the other units were having any problems .
15 Nigel Carr is back in the Ulster fold and takes up a new responsibility as a selector
16 ‘ It was my responsibility as a project to establish the whole thing , ’ he said proudly , adding that his work at Newcastle called for a very broad range of expertise .
17 NICK ALLEN has assumed responsibility as Charlton depot manager .
18 Even president Clinton is learning that , even as a democrat he had a reputation of fiscal responsibility as a government , but I must admit I welcomed his present er proposals in that regard .
19 But I would still like your responsibility as division quality manager to make sure it gets done .
20 Marc Laframboise , an investigator for the Canadian Liberal Party , emphasised that Islamic Jihad in Beirut claimed responsibility between four and eight hours after the incident .
21 He said the current charter still gives no clear division of responsibility between the Community and the member states .
22 Instead its concepts — like sharing responsibility between parents and the state , reaching agreements and partnerships — have a surprisingly communitarian or even collectivist ring about them .
23 Subsidiarity has become a ( still at times contentious ) means of regulating areas of competence and especially of financial responsibility between state and private services rather than the rallying call of privatization .
24 I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society .
25 It is sometimes possible to arrange for both ministers to be at the ceremony , sharing the responsibility between them .
26 Now it seems reasonable to suggest that the competence/performance distinction might also mark the division of responsibility between syllabus and methodology , with the former specifying the knowledge to be acquired and the latter providing conditions for its behavioural realization .
27 They divide responsibility between Congress and a variety of federal agencies ; they invest broad discretion in a variety of officers .
28 Agency definitions of abuse and what behaviours constitute abuse must maintain the balance of responsibility between the abuser and abused .
29 Thus the changing nature of physics can be attributed to the changing states , or to changing observables , or to some mixture of responsibility between the two of them .
30 It 's a shared responsibility between them to create the right environment so that the magic can happen . ’
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