Example sentences of "[to-vb] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The myth of the political neutrality of technology is frequently invoked both by politicians , seeking to explain the effects that a particular technological development has on society , and by the technologist , seeking to disclaim responsibility for such effects . |
| 2 | Indeed the importance of the correct citing of an author 's spelling is regularly marked by the insertion of sic into a citation by a second author who wishes to disclaim responsibility for an aberrant spelling . |
| 3 | This kind of accountability goes beyond the narrowly defined stewardship of assets to include responsibility for the performance of those assets . |
| 4 | Some critics have considered it to be too weak and idiosyncratic to carry responsibility for major public and social services . |
| 5 | " Responsible " men are men with responsibilities , homes , children and wives , and that moral code is written into social security regulations to enforce responsibility for women and children as the economic essence of masculinity . |
| 6 | Eventually he is sent to a liberal English school where his emergence into adulthood converges with an increasing political awareness and realization that it is up to the individual to rake responsibility for altering the world around him . |
| 7 | But while pleased , Mr Elton was scathing about Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley 's response to the Ombudsman 's report to which the Government refused to accept responsibility for the affair . |
| 8 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 9 | Jacques 's visits to the LEAs and branches in the rural eastern counties confirmed his belief that without the continuing presence of high quality resident tutor-organisers in rural areas , few people would be prepared to accept responsibility for the organisation and maintenance of self-directing adult student groups in villages . |
| 10 | May we learn to accept responsibility for our own actions and inactions and for our mistakes as well as for our success . |
| 11 | If , when you have read the letter overleaf , you decide to accept responsibility for the first £50 of claims please fill in the boxes below . |
| 12 | I wish to accept responsibility for the first £50 of all claims under Section 1 — Buildings of the above policy ( other than claims arising from Subsidence , where special conditions apply , or Fire or Property Owners Liability ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To accept responsibility for a choice , I may judge it sufficient that I was closely attentive to the object before responding in one direction or the other . |
| 15 | Second , Fuchs blamed the deficit on the museum 's poor administrative structure , ‘ I did not have a system which enabled me to accept responsibility for the financial affairs of the museums ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ This is a sad and tragic business , with one young lady dead and the other knowing she has to accept responsibility for that death , ’ he said . |
| 17 | If people are to accept responsibility for outcomes , they will insist upon being substantively included in the decision process . |
| 18 | Within the profession the general feeling is that the greater the degree of autonomy that can be given to teachers and schools , the more likely are they to accept responsibility for educational provision and become committed to improving its quality . |
| 19 | Although individual managers might have to accept responsibility for decisions , there should be a consensus in decision-making , reached by agreement with the manager 's subordinates and colleagues . |
| 20 | As a result , while the Authority can justifiably take much of the credit for the transformation of certain aspects of primary education in Leeds which PNP began to yield , it may also need to accept responsibility for some of PNP 's manifest weaknesses . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , being able to accept responsibility for what had happened did n't make her feel any better about it ! |
| 22 | Stating the RIBA housing policy for 1992 , it called on the Government to accept responsibility for setting the national housing policy based on need , ability to pay and choice of tenure , drawing on the combined resources of the public and private sectors . |
| 23 | You have to accept responsibility for the fruits of your actions , in the scientific field as elsewhere . |
| 24 | The progress made towards that increase allows " individual staff to commit themselves to their own professional development and makes it possible for management to accept responsibility for implementation " ( Hewton 1988:89 ) . |
| 25 | If you have been nominated to respond to an SPR , this option enables you to accept responsibility for the SPR or to pass it on to another user . |
| 26 | You have tried to either force a user to accept responsibility for a Software Performance Report ( SPR ) ( using option 3.8.0 — Force User To Accept SPR ) or to submit a Software Status Report ( SSR ) ( using option 4.3.0 — Submit SSR ) , without having the privilege SPR SSR CONTROLLER . |
| 27 | For example , the purchaser may consider that certain supplier contracts are essential to the business but at the same time is not willing to accept responsibility for the vendor 's debts to the supplier . |
| 28 | He has since sought help from Esther Rantzen 's That 's Life programme in an effort to get someone to accept responsibility for his losses . |
| 29 | Neither wants to accept responsibility for the repairs needed since the previous contractor went into liquidation . |
| 30 | The MPs said the bank had to accept responsibility for its failure as BCCI 's supervisor , which had been demonstrated so clearly in the report by Sir Thomas Bingham , a High Court judge . |