Example sentences of "to take responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Food Standards Agency to take responsibility for food hygiene and safety . |
| 2 | Some shareholders have called on Sir Derek , who masterminded the ISC takeover , to take responsibility for the debacle and resign . |
| 3 | Rachel was kinder and gentler towards her than she had ever been before ; but she also required Phoebe to take responsibility for the baby , to be a good mother , to take heed for the morrow . |
| 4 | He asked : ‘ Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 5 | Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 6 | Whom do you trust to take responsibility for Britain 's defence ; to keep us safe and strengthen our influence for good ? |
| 7 | In practice this rarely seems to work and the school needs to take responsibility for much of the incidental training . |
| 8 | In that case , it has to take responsibility for allocating all foreign exchange to the users by administrative methods . |
| 9 | We also have to take responsibility for how we feel about ourselves and our actions . |
| 10 | To take responsibility for others when all you know is the opposite . |
| 11 | And the head — above all — needs to take responsibility for the whole programme . |
| 12 | Most of the ‘ myths ’ exposed in this section are excuses of one sort or another not to take responsibility for your own behaviour . |
| 13 | People often use their personalities as an excuse not to bother to take responsibility for their own behaviour . |
| 14 | It can only be realised fully by involving able people and delegating power and responsibility to them in ways which allow the whole organisation to take responsibility for outcomes and for future action . |
| 15 | It was pointed out in Chapter 4 that most patients who take overdoses or injure themselves do not require psychiatric inpatient care because they are able to take responsibility for themselves or have sufficient support available . |
| 16 | Now the Department of Energy is in the ludicrous position of trying to persuade the SSEB to accept responsibility for the Scottish plutonium , currently unseparated from the rest of the spent fuel , while the CEGB is under pressure to take responsibility for the Kent plutonium . |
| 17 | The children learn to take responsibility for themselves . |
| 18 | Lastly , you may be perfectly healthy but are one of those increasing number of people who want to take responsibility for their own well-being and wish to discover more about themselves . |
| 19 | support a continued moratorium on hunting the great whales , and push for a similar body to the International Whaling Commission to take responsibility for the 66 small cetaceans currently unprotected |
| 20 | Beginning to take responsibility for their own property , they may be proud to count how many paintings they have done or sort their work from the pile , to take home . |
| 21 | Willing to take responsibility for the church to grow , and not wait for it to happen . |
| 22 | But the crucial step is to take responsibility for that belief . |
| 23 | Are you willing to take responsibility for your life , to accept that we create our own reality ? |
| 24 | Think about times when you have blamed others , or refused to take responsibility for your life . |
| 25 | The only way out would be to get the Lib Dems to take responsibility for the posters — which they refused to do , for fear of alienating Tory waverers . |
| 26 | The new emphasis is on attentiveness , and the ability to take responsibility for machinery that is both extremely expensive and highly dangerous . |
| 27 | But from 20 onwards , I would have to take responsibility for managing my own life . ’ |
| 28 | Such initiatives intensified the pressure exerted by the guild for the state to take responsibility for public health . |
| 29 | The insecurity that the interviewer experiences may cause them to smile manically ; to talk too much , when he or she should be able to take responsibility for pauses ; to do a really hard sell on behalf of the company ; to over-react with approval to the interviewee , giving them , unfairly , the impression that they 've got the job . |
| 30 | Ten to 17-year-olds are taught to take responsibility for themselves , to understand the effects of their crime on the local community and to compensate their victim . |