Example sentences of "[adj] responsibility for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One of Next 's six founders , he had management and technical responsibility for all aspects of NextStep including the object-oriented design and user interface .
2 But there are groups within the University that have been given specific responsibility for certain elements , and the largest of these is the Education Area .
3 Derek Keys was appointed the new Minister of Finance , but retained the Trade and Industry portfolio , and continued to have the specific responsibility for economic co-ordination .
4 I appreciate the minister 's difficulty representing the Home Office with no specific responsibility for these matters as far as er er Europe is concerned er but nevertheless this is a matter that does affect the electorate and one that I think the house should take er notice of .
5 The Department has specific responsibility for senior management remuneration , management development and Group personnel policies which involves close liaison with Personnel colleagues and line managers throughout the world .
6 Create a new Department of Natural Resources with sole responsibility for environmental protection , leaving the Department of the Environment to cover local government and housing .
7 Assessments are straightforward when a child is subject to a care order and the local authority has sole responsibility for that child 's welfare .
8 As the House of Commons has sole responsibility for financial matters , it has to carry the burden of the work on financial bills .
9 Professional responsibility for managing risk ; examples where management has been inadequate ; the need for an organised approach ; responsibilities of safety officers ; making and using safety audits and regular reviews ; Total Quality Management .
10 Moreover , members may thereby be enabled to avoid direct responsibility for poor results arising from decisions taken in committee .
11 The reports also go to the press along with a press release , to witnesses who have assisted in the inquiry and — especially important — to those with direct responsibility for further progress on a legislative proposal .
12 In terms of family responsibilities , the various changes I have identified have combined to produce a phase of life in later adulthood when people are free from direct responsibility for rearing children .
13 ‘ I do not want the beauty to come from the material but from within myself , ’ he wrote later , taking direct responsibility for this process of redemption .
14 Nor does the state assume unequivocal responsibility for old people 's well-being .
15 We will establish the Prison Service as a separate agency , whose director will have the clear responsibility for day-to-day operations .
16 The decree also reiterated all-union responsibility for issuing licences and setting quotas for imports and exports of a list of the most important commodities , including oil , gas , gold , diamonds and high technology goods .
17 He said Mr Smith , as Shadow chancellor , bore the chief responsibility for this failure of Labour 's economic and taxation policy , and so it was ironic that Mr Smith was now being presented as the best leader for the party .
18 Hence , I am arguing that ALL staff accept similar responsibility for disruptive pupils .
19 Thus , a facility which at first appeared a useful addition to arts development resources had become a source of extra responsibility for many advisers , consuming time they could ill afford .
20 Besides attesting to the now well supported view that de Man suffered from a kind of multiple personality disorder , the effect is astounding , since it allows for the formulation of key linguistic tenets upon which the radical reputation of deconstruction rests without de Man taking personal responsibility for that formulation .
21 Griffiths found that the absence of ‘ general management support ’ meant that there was no driving force ‘ seeking and accepting direct and personal responsibility for developing plans , securing implementation and monitoring actual achievement ’ .
22 Will he accept personal responsibility for any tragedies that occur in the meantime ?
23 Through [ Solicitors ] the legal aspects of due diligence work would be co-ordinated and supervised on a European basis and [ Lawyer ] would assume overall personal responsibility for this area .
24 Thus , their solicitor drew up a document detailing joint responsibility for communal maintenance of roofs , courtyards and external paintwork .
25 As the services provided become less adequate we will find that the perceived responsibility for these inadequacies will also be laid at our door .
26 These ties bear hardest on those who tend to accept moral responsibility for caring roles .
27 organised by an individual or group with separate responsibility for this area :
28 The notion of a lead agency with overall responsibility for developing services or for buying in the necessary services from local statutory , private or voluntary agencies would make clear where responsibility should lie .
29 In matters of this kind , in which support at home to frail elderly people is critical , there is a powerful argument for local government to assume overall responsibility for strategic planning in addition to providing service .
30 In recent years , the Committee has noted , with disappointment , that the new Legal Aid Board was not ‘ a Legal Services Board with overall responsibility for legal aid and legal services ’ ; that the present system could not be said to constitute a ‘ comprehensive system of legal services offering good early advice ’ ; and that in considering reform to the legal profession , there had been a failure by government ‘ to examine the place that lawyers ’ services should occupy in the field of legal services as a whole . ’
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