Example sentences of "[modal v] be responsible " in BNC.

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1 In a report , Rental Purchase : The Case for Change , the housing pressure group says that people buying properties on rental purchase schemes — common in the north of England for cheaper property — should be protected as if they were assured tenants under the Housing Act 1988 , and landlords should be responsible for all repairs .
2 This approach could end the long-running battle between the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trade Commission over which agency should be responsible for which new products .
3 It is generally felt that the manager should be responsible for his or her own office overheads , telephone bills , secretarial services and so on .
4 The same adjudicators should be responsible for control of the clock ( see item 1 ) .
5 It was not uncommon , when it was unclear who should be responsible for an elderly relative , to take turns .
6 The Council was financed jointly by the Ministry and the Local Education Authorities and respected the principle that each school should be responsible for determining its own curricula and teaching methods .
7 Who Should be Responsible for Diabetic Care ?
8 This is not to say that businessmen should be responsible for all the indirect effects of their policies and actions , or that , for example , the individuals in the company responsible for the hoist accident described above should be charged and sentenced for murder .
9 The central proposals , ie that District Health Authorities should receive an allocation based on their population and should be responsible for providing or acquiring health care services to meet the needs of that population , are fundamentally Type I. However , there are several proposals in Working for patients which introduce elements of a Type II system into the activities of DHAs .
10 So the notion was accepted that the magistrate should be responsible for execution of the sentence he , or the judge appointed by him , had pronounced .
11 Ideally , one person should be responsible for notice boards so that out-of-date notices are not cluttering the board and interest is maintained .
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 The final and perhaps most important aspect of a programme of CPD , is who should be responsible for its initiation and implementation .
14 Land Trusts , he thought , should be responsible for the proper exploitation of resources and would need to pay attention to the human and social needs of everyone living in the area .
15 Auditors should be responsible to a wider interest group than the shareholders .
16 Auditors should be responsible to a wider audience , including potential shareholders and existing and potential creditors .
17 The Cadbury Committee recommends that the chairman of the audit committee should be responsible for answering questions about its work at the agm .
18 In a fast moving haulage firm , great care has to be taken to provide a safe system of working ; all employees should be responsible people who are ‘ up to the job ’ , and all equipment and buildings used must be safe and free from apparent defects .
19 And in fact , though perhaps it is shocking to admit it , we took some advantage of this dreadful argument during the campaign : we said we did not want to bring personalities into the election , but of course it was important that members of the Council should be responsible people who would not take advantage of their ‘ special position ’ .
20 Mrs Singh had seemed mystified by the advice , as she believed the school should be responsible for progress in English and mathematics and shrugged helplessly when I suggested that parents also had an important role .
21 When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command .
22 All personnel appointed to administer the Compact should be responsible to this committee .
23 Local authority social services should be responsible for identifying all people with community care needs in their area , for assessing such needs , for arranging for individuals to receive social , domestic and personal care , and for ensuring that other authorities such as housing and health services are alerted to their needs .
24 He suggested , as I describe earlier , that the NHS should confine itself to health care , and local authorities should be responsible for social care .
25 The case manager or care manager should be responsible for organizing a total care plan for each individual , spanning both ‘ ordinary ’ needs and ‘ special ’ needs , and for integrating the input of the NHS , local authority and voluntary organizations .
26 A subordinate should be responsible to his superior for achievements with delegated authority , but the superior in his turn remains responsible to his own boss for the achievements of his subordinates .
27 should be responsible and accountable for their exercise of that authority .
28 Housing for Rent — local authorities should be responsible for ensuring that rented housing was available for all local people in need of it , provided wherever possible from the existing housing stock ( in contrast to Tai Cymru 's present policy of forcing housing associations to build new houses ) .
29 This all sounds well for the vicar but the Bishop also decreed that the vicar should be responsible for repairs to the building of the church , the vicarage and new buildings when ever need should arise , the celebration and ministration of the sacraments and sacramentals to the parishioners , the finding of bread and wine , and lights for the Church .
30 Er there was no constraints erm within the project or within the responsibility statement on saying that somebody else should be responsible for certain things that we felt were outside our , our remit .
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