Example sentences of "[prep] responsibility for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | driver of vehicle involved in collison with another vehicle exonerated for responsibility for subsequent events which occur because another driver has driven recklessly and which would not have occurred had that driver been driving merely negligently . |
| 2 | The survivors and the government can not agree about responsibility for their deaths , among them young Cliff , , John , the family , Wayne and four of his children . |
| 3 | The report assesses the current role of FHSAs , Regional Health Authorities ( RHAs ) and District Health Authorities ( DHAs ) in the management of primary dental services , and makes various recommendations , such as that FHSAs should become the focus of responsibility for co-ordinating primary dental care , including in the long term the treatment role of the Community Dental Service . |
| 4 | The unions had to bear their share of responsibility for ‘ attitudes of entrenched resistance to change ’ . |
| 5 | The Americans have long been eager for the Japanese to help Latin America 's economies , and mused that the Europeans might want to shoulder a degree of responsibility for Africa . |
| 6 | As men expanded the field of responsibility for their own existence , the field formerly assigned to Providence , in the traditional sense , contracted . |
| 7 | Even parents who were suspected of abuse retained a sense of responsibility for their children which should be nurtured , not crushed ; and even the implementation of legal powers required respect , communication , the willingness to listen , and the desire to reach agreements — not least with the victims themselves . |
| 8 | A possible ( relatively ) benign explanation might be presented for GPs ' failure to pursue a non compulsory route : that women , whose conventional role involves running the home and family , would be less willing to go into hospital precisely because of their feelings of responsibility for others in the home . |
| 9 | The government is in the process of producing extra guidelines on waste management proposals and the creation of a new national environment agency might mean a shift of responsibility for waste regulation functions . |
| 10 | We will , as a matter of urgency , discuss with Hong Kong 's representatives what measures may best enhance democracy and confidence during Britain 's five remaining years of responsibility for the colony . |
| 11 | He had known an Irishman with similar hands ; hands that had seemed to perform as separate entities from the man himself ; acting on his behalf yet leaving his conscience free of responsibility for their actions . |
| 12 | But only the paternalistic tendency to minimize the significance of action based on the agent 's judgment of his situation led to the attempt to amalgamate all voluntary obligations into a generalized doctrine of duties arising out of responsibility for inducing others to act . |
| 13 | In practice , many family members look to the female members to take on the lion 's share of responsibility for children , elderly relatives , the sick and the disabled , as well as domestic work , sometimes in addition to taking employment outside the home . |
| 14 | Earlier , the change of emphasis from a ‘ social ’ to an ‘ economic and environmental ’ focus had been reflected in a switch of responsibility for the Programme from the Home Office to the Department of the Environment . |
| 15 | Young men and underclass men in general are also portrayed in disparaging terms in the book , even though the explanation for their behaviour ( criminality , violence , drugs , hanging round pool halls , lick of responsibility for offspring ) is placed at the door of external forces . |
| 16 | Ruthie folded her arms , as if to emphasize her lack of responsibility for the shop she was minding . |
| 17 | This included : the relationship of the material selected to the libraries ' objectives ; guidance on levels of provision in different sizes of library ; criteria for selection ; definition of community groups to be served ; policy on censorship ; comments on various types of material — e.g. paperbacks , audiovisual materials ; donations policy ; relationships with the book trade ; statements of responsibility for selection ; demographic information about the area . |
| 18 | A further example is the transfer of responsibility for those who need financial support . |
| 19 | But others , too , must accept their share of responsibility for safety in the home . |
| 20 | Recommends the establishment of a reliable database and the vesting of responsibility for estate management in officers of a ‘ sufficiently senior level ’ . |
| 21 | The separation of responsibility for purchasing health care from that of providing health care . |
| 22 | The delegation of responsibility for local management is being introduced alongside National Curriculum and testing . |
| 23 | Regretfully traditional inspection often shifts the focus of responsibility for the quality of performance away from the person carrying out the work . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm only trying to work things out for myself and take a bit of responsibility for what I do . ’ |
| 25 | THE BBC is to be stripped of responsibility for the Queen 's annual Christmas TV broadcast , ending a tradition going back 60 years . |
| 26 | These differences might have to do with the aspects of context which are differentiated and generalized , or with the distribution of responsibility for denoting these aspects within the formal resources of the language , within its lexis , morphology , and syntax . |
| 27 | Firms are authorised for investment business within one of four categories which permit varying degrees of responsibility for client transactions and assets . |
| 28 | In the main , the changes create two new areas of responsibility for business : |
| 29 | There are times when a social worker has to act against the client 's wishes , and as a form of protection , in exceptional cases , deprive a person of responsibility for their affairs , or even of their liberty . |
| 30 | The Labour leader accused Major , who said he wanted a classless society , of instead building ‘ a heartless society ruled by a Government devoid of any sense of responsibility for its people . ’ |