Example sentences of "[verb] [art] responsibility [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't have to like it , any more than she had to like being Vanessa Vail , but there was no way she could evade the responsibility without racking up a seed of guilt that would sprout and eat at her Dreams . |
| 2 | He believed in doing , and came into his own when he was free to renounce the responsibility of reasoning anything out and could trust himself entirely to his own reflexes . |
| 3 | This passed the responsibility for state education from the school boards to the county and county borough councils , and devised a formula for the comprehensive financial support of the church schools that preserved a measure of voluntary control . |
| 4 | This immediately implied that the developmental role was , at least initially , to be quite distinct from routine casework support for clients and carers ( which was to remain the responsibility of generic area teams ) . |
| 5 | Although the SDA was strictly a national agency , it was also given the responsibility of managing the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal Project ( GEAR ) , which was then the largest inner-city project in Britain . |
| 6 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 7 | About one hundred years ago the EMMS directors were given the responsibility of running the Hawthornbrae Trust which currently exists to provide holiday grants to Edinburgh residents who are recovering from illness and who would not otherwise be able to afford even a short holiday break . |
| 8 | As Chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group I was given the responsibility of deciding on programmes of study for all children from 5 to 16 , of putting right what I regarded as a major omission in the Kingman Report . |
| 9 | The Construction Industry Research and Information Association ( CIRIA ) has been given the responsibility of gathering together and adding to what is known about the risks . |
| 10 | The Court was given the responsibility of handling cases arising from all three Community treaties or from disputes between members . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been given the responsibility of securing the capital , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 12 | This would consist of a group of employees each of whom would be given the responsibility of monitoring the evacuation of a designated part of the building , checking that all rooms , toilets , cloakrooms , etc. in that area were clear of personnel and then reporting to the ‘ Senior Fire Steward ’ at a pre-determined reporting position outside the premises . |
| 13 | Sackor had in late 1989 headed a committee given the responsibility of investigating alleged subversive activity in the area , but which had concluded that the allegations were groundless . |
| 14 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 15 | Spanish fishermen continually faced fines for fishing in Moroccan waters under an agreement signed between Morocco and the EC in February 1988 [ see p. 35855 ] , and the European Commission finally agreed to convene a meeting to review the agreement of the mixed committee originally given the responsibility of supervising the agreement . |
| 16 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 17 | A report on Estonian Radio on April 27 said that Veering and Puura had been given the responsibility of expediting the setting up of an Estonian Defence Ministry . |
| 18 | Hankin signalled the start of that new youth policy by leaving out defender Kevan Smith Andy Toman was given the responsibility of captaining the side and pairing youngsters Sunley and Gregan at the centre of defence . |
| 19 | Why am I always given the responsibility of looking after the microphones , I 've done this for years well think about this brother here , he made cheese for years and he did n't like the job one bit , now is n't that strange , do you know why ? |
| 20 | Ministers like Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang , themselves committed to extending reform and making China a richer , modern nation , were given the responsibility for easing the difficulties . |
| 21 | One of the clan groups was given the responsibility for securing the delivery of the food to the warehouses , but the internal divisions and the lorry drivers ' loyalties mean that some food is always stolen , or lost to corruption . |
| 22 | The team as a whole was given the responsibility for the whole task and for assigning individuals to particular jobs . |
| 23 | The C. and A. G. is given the responsibility for auditing all appropriation accounts by the 1921 Act . |
| 24 | As the main purchasing authority , DHAs were given the responsibility for ensuring that the health care needs of their resident population were met . |
| 25 | The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank . |
| 26 | This has proved an unfounded anxiety since the design and management of all full-time courses in the polytechnic sector were and remain the responsibility of persons who qualified via the Institution 's external examination system and entered teaching as qualified surveyors after years of service in the public or private sector . |
| 27 | The Welsh Office Education Department is responsible ( and has been since 1970 ) for schools and further and higher education in Wales , but not universities or the qualifications , probation , pay , superannuation or misconduct of teachers , which remain the responsibility of the DES . |
| 28 | I 'm sure it 's a hard decision to make and I 'm happy in the knowledge that I will never have to carry the responsibility of deciding whether or not to deprive the chance of life . |
| 29 | In the learned hierarchy the term — literally " one who is assiduous , constant in attendance ’ was used for a candidate for office at any stage in his career , for the muderris or kadi awaiting his next post as well as for the beginner , the term in Ottoman usage perhaps reflecting the fact that the candidates were in constant attendance theoretically upon the sultan but in fact more usually upon the kazaskers , in whose hands lay the responsibility for nominating men for most posts until near the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 30 | He went on to say that the unanimous view of the High Court judges in Scotland was that the Scottish courts should remain the responsibility of the United Kingdom and not become the responsibility of the Scottish Assembly . |