Example sentences of "[noun] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because the state is expanding as the unit of international society , and is being called on to take responsibility for the welfare of its citizens in a wider range of areas . |
| 2 | In consequence , a special meeting of the TUC on 1 May 1926 undertook to support the coal miners through sympathetic industrial action , giving the General Council primary responsibility for negotiations : |
| 3 | They may do so in a non-Compact institution in which case responsibility for " cashing in " the Compact entitlement must rest with the student . |
| 4 | That in France , about which most information is available , had at various times responsibility for a wide variety of technical services — couriers , diplomatic bags , codes and , much more significantly , personnel and appointments . |
| 5 | But the advocates of radical community education bear part responsibility for this caesura between different attempts to develop an education which will inform and support effective social action . |
| 6 | New appointees were : as Finance Minister , Mihaly Kupa ( an economist who , under the former " reform communist " regime , helped draft the first income tax system in Eastern Europe ) ; and as Ministers without portfolio Ernö Pungor ( head of the state office for technology development and of the national nuclear energy committee ) , Katalin Botos ( hitherto Rabar 's deputy in her post as State Secretary for Finance ) , and Andras Galszecsy ( who took over from Boross responsibility for the state security services ) . |
| 7 | On April 27th he signed a decree giving the president responsibility for foreign affairs and the same day warned the Serbs not to count on Russian help — a calculated snub to Serbophiles in parliament . |
| 8 | Cambridgeshire introduced a scheme of ‘ Increased Financial Responsibility ’ in 1977 which gave schools responsibility for budgetary control of their capitation . |
| 9 | Thus , in much the same way as the Bundesbank chairman , Dr Karl Otto Poehl , has been at pains to preserve the monetary integrity of the new Europe , so the Cartel Office is disturbed about abrogating to Brussels responsibility for all mergers involving a turnover of less than $5billion . |
| 10 | Our decision to give the Commissioners of Inland Revenue responsibility for overseeing the work reflected our understanding of the demand in Scotland for consistency in the way in which taxes operate throughout Great Britain . |
| 11 | In recent years BR has been developing techniques for giving each of the business sectors responsibility for part of the network 's infrastructure costs . |
| 12 | This person 's manager , who had profit and loss responsibility for a large division within the company , was warmly and favorably described as ‘ non-political ’ : |
| 13 | José María Mieres Muro ( Blanco ) took over from Raúl Lago Finsterwald responsibility for Housing and the Environment , pending a decision by the Party for the Government of the People ( PGP , part of the centre-left Nuevo Espacio coalition ) over whether to accept Lacalle 's invitation to join the government . |
| 14 | On Aug. 28 Gorbachev removed the KGB leadership ( Collegium ) , placed KGB troops under the control of the Defence Ministry , and established a commission to investigate KGB responsibility for the coup . |
| 15 | But , in pursuit of joint oversight responsibilities for these facilities in Wales , did the Secretary of State for Wales plead with that Department on the ground of regional policy alone as is pointed out by the Hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan ( Sir R. Gower ) , who is sadly absent today , in his early day motion that it makes no sense to move hi-tech jobs in Government research and development from an area such as south Wales to an overheated area in the south-east of England ? |
| 16 | Though Sir Derek must ultimately carry management responsibility for the mess ISC has got the company into , it would prove difficult to find someone better to sort it out if only because any newcomer would have to spend so long in getting to grips with the problems . |
| 17 | They also share with management responsibility for good industrial relations . |
| 18 | He has overall management responsibility for the membership and administration activities . |
| 19 | After careful consideration of the options it has been decided to move the studio to the Bar Council 's Warwick Court annex and transfer responsibility for managing and marketing the facilities to the Secretariat . |
| 20 | Make crime prevention a core responsibility for all managers and staff and train all company personnel in the company 's crime prevention policy and practice . |
| 21 | Any offices , shops , etc. , attached to the warehouse will be subject to approval and certification of the Fire Authority under the Fire Precautions Act which will require suitable provision for protected means of escape , the provisions of alarm systems , portable fire fighting equipment , possible emergency lighting etc. , and the maintenance of these routes free at all times , as well as assurance of the management responsibilities for regular evacuation drills , training etc . |
| 22 | Legal systems abroad vary widely but the one common in many European countries derives from the Napoleonic Code and places responsibility for investigating suspicious or unnatural death upon the local magistrate . |
| 23 | He has been on the ICI board since 1987 and has overview responsibility for safety , health and environmental matters . |
| 24 | The main proposal is that the government should support a move that the Energy Bill should give electricity boards responsibility for providing heat . |
| 25 | We will transfer from the Home Office to the Department of Employment the lead responsibility for co-ordinating government policy on issues of particular concern to women . |
| 26 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 27 | The National Health Service and Community Care Act ( 1990 ) has assigned to local authority social services departments the lead responsibility for the co-ordination and production of community care assessments of individual older people and the process of development of criteria , mechanisms , and models of assessment is underway in most social service departments . |
| 28 | Medical research led the way in fostering the belief both in individual capacity and in community responsibility for it . |
| 29 | The Countryside Act of 1968 allowed local authorities to take a more positive role in environmental conservation and gave the Countryside Commission general responsibility for safeguarding the rural landscape . |
| 30 | None of this means that in the second method , when we begin with the group , we are interested in group responsibility for its own sake . |