Example sentences of "the responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when Stormont was abolished in 1972 and central government took over entirely the responsibility for local administration , it adopted the technocratic , non-policy making approach to its new role . |
| 2 | Blame me for becoming poor if you like — I admit , I blew it — but the responsibility for the way our society treats its poorer members is not exclusively mine . |
| 3 | The final stages of training amount to the handing over of all the responsibility for safety to the student . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 5 | Man can take the responsibility for birth control . |
| 6 | The Fieldwork Department will retain the responsibility for applications for grants to cover the costs of courses and training initiatives provided by the Age Concern England Management Development Unit , and all other training providers . |
| 7 | As the present government , despite its ‘ hands off , free market ’ attitudes , is involving itself in the workings of the pub trade , then it must shoulder the responsibility for the present state of affairs and insist that arbitration on rents must be genuinely independent and not loaded in favour of the brewers . |
| 8 | Senior Chinese officials have blamed the damage to Hong Kong 's confidence variously on Hong Kong people themselves , for daring to demonstrate ; and on the British , an astonishing claim which was made by China 's principal representative in Hongkong , Xu Jiatun , the director of the New China News Agency , who said that the responsibility for restoring confidence in Hong Kong rested with London . |
| 9 | Subba Row , also the chairman of Surrey and a former England and Northamptonshire batsman , will remain a powerful voice but clearly wishes for someone else to take the responsibility for the hazards to come . |
| 10 | In future the responsibility for preserving a stable international economic system would rest with ‘ a committee ’ of the major industrial nations . |
| 11 | She was one among many professionals and shares with others the responsibility for what happened . |
| 12 | The root of the problem is that there is no Non-Conformist equivalent of the church commissioners who , as well as contributing in large measure to Church of England clergy stipends , share with the state the responsibility for providing the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 13 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 14 | Part-time male reservists do only sanger ( guard ) duty , either at the station or at other locations ; female reservists are restricted in the main to the guard room inside the station , with only full-time reserve policemen carrying the responsibility for a broader range of tasks , although few are involved in the paperwork for a case file . |
| 15 | When the responsibility for providing medical care is focused and vested in a department of government , all the aspirations to improvement are bound to strengthen the institution . |
| 16 | Thus the endeavour to replace as much as possible of institutional with community care is a Sisyphean labour , which encounters the maximum obstacles , financial and organisational , quite apart from the fact that the responsibility for developing community care is fragmented and isolated through residing , in large part , with local health authorities and thus falling within a different system of finance and budgeting . |
| 17 | Commitments to matching finance are seldom adequately analyzed , and although the recipient governments may carry a good deal of the responsibility for this , donors are also at fault in assuming that the counter-part funds for their projects will have priority . |
| 18 | It also puts the responsibility for ensuring competence where it belongs — with the managing agent , ’ Mr Gordon said . |
| 19 | It also puts the responsibility for ensuring competence where it belongs — with the managing agent , ’ Mr Gordon said . |
| 20 | Much of the responsibility for this will rest with health authorities who will play the key role in demonstration projects recently announced by the Government . |
| 21 | ‘ There is no choice but to take an ugly and difficult decision to avert an even greater injustice , and those who cry halt and say there must be some other way , even though every conceivable way has been sought , would carry the responsibility for the even more catastrophic consequences of inaction , ’ he added . |
| 22 | He spoke of men 's ‘ sexist ’ behaviour , but laid the responsibility for providing a remedy with women , who must exercise a ‘ civilising influence ’ on these infantile people . |
| 23 | Lack of incentives , bureaucratic mismanagement and other well-publicized ills of the Soviet economy may bear much of the responsibility for the disparity between the superpowers , but Robert Paarlberg 's Food Trade and Foreign Policy confirms that climate has been the chief factor : |
| 24 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 25 | When the election campaign resumes , the responsibility for India 's future could well revert to the Congress Party . |
| 26 | The leader may delegate a great deal of work but can not delegate the responsibility for that work . |
| 27 | ‘ You have behaved marvellously , ’ he said , ‘ and now we are taking the responsibility for Mrs Ross off your hands . ’ |
| 28 | He has the responsibility for all the editing . |
| 29 | For example , Regional Railways still bears the responsibility for a clutch of rural services , lifelines for local communities but offering little scope for expansion or profitability . |
| 30 | The WEA shared both the relief and the reservations : duly expressed as a gathering of District Secretaries in September , at the National Conference in October and at meetings of the WEA Central Executive Committee which had the responsibility for formulating an official response . |