Example sentences of "accept responsibility for [verb] " in BNC.

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1 They do not abase themselves in penitence but see themselves in a partnership which accepts responsibility for establishing peace and justice on this planet .
2 Stating the RIBA housing policy for 1992 , it called on the Government to accept responsibility for setting the national housing policy based on need , ability to pay and choice of tenure , drawing on the combined resources of the public and private sectors .
3 The signatories of the Charter have accepted responsibility for maintaining the good code of practice and also agree to disseminate the document through their organisations , encouraging their managers to actively participate .
4 Society has accepted responsibility for seeing that their needs are met in a piecemeal fashion , tackling the most obvious needs first — those for financial provision , medical care and residential accommodation .
5 A service system comprises a network of professionals and/or volunteers who accept responsibility for providing assistance to vulnerable people to meet their individual needs and develop their potential without their being unnecessarily isolated or excluded from the community .
6 We accept responsibility for ensuring that all component parts of the inclusive holiday which you book with us are supplied to you as described in this brochure and to a reasonable standard .
7 Brooke issued an ultimatum on May 14 for all parties to accept his compromise formula for a venue by the following day or accept responsibility for wrecking the talks .
8 ( 3 ) Implicit acceptance of responsibility for providing a wide range of services to our patients — In taking a fund we accept responsibility for purchasing hospital services , drugs , and now community care on behalf of our patients .
9 At fifteen she accepted responsibility for bringing up her brothers and sisters .
10 As archbishop , he accepted responsibility for spreading and enforcing Latin doctrine and Benedictine monastic discipline throughout the alter orbis of Britain .
11 People in a position of influence could accept responsibility for implementing the results .
12 While the academics should be responsible for the academic inputs to the total education and training process , the members must accept responsibility for providing suitable training for , and devising , administering and adjudicating on a proper and sufficient Test of Professional Competence .
13 An inadequate system has been made worse by the Government 's decision that it will no longer accept responsibility for collecting maintenance unless there have been irregular payments .
14 Then with a sudden ecstatic rush , we all resolved at once that it should be put up across the gate and the military must accept responsibility for destroying it .
15 Can he give an assurance that if the Magnox reactors are indeed approaching the end of their days and Trawsfynydd has no continuing nuclear future , the Government will accept responsibility for finding jobs for those who depend on the industry ?
16 Few Japanese will accept responsibility for ending an animal 's life , whatever the circumstances , hence the wholesale abandonment of ‘ pets ’ .
17 The employers acknowledged that management should accept responsibility for doing everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce them .
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