Example sentences of "[verb] assume responsibility [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Since 1976 , the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe has assumed responsibility for the monitoring programme in Western Europe and subsequently extended this to Eastern Europe .
2 We know that Russia would like to assume responsibility for the arsenal within its borders .
3 Had the referendum on devolution resulted in a sufficient majority voting in favour of devolution for Wales , then the Welsh Assembly would have come into being and would have assumed responsibility for the administration of all Welsh education outside the university .
4 A Vietnam national army would be rapidly created to assume responsibility for the internal situation and as this progressed French forces would withdraw to border areas or where unnecessary depart .
5 From 1927 in Cambridgeshire , the Board , with the assistance of a three-year Cassell Fund grant , had assumed responsibility for the RCC 's own programme of village lectures and short courses for which the latter received grant-aid from the LEA .
6 The corporation had assumed responsibility for the site in 1945 and had purchased the land in 1957 , although technically it was in the rural district area .
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