Example sentences of "[verb] [art] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The team as a whole was given the responsibility for the whole task and for assigning individuals to particular jobs . |
| 5 | The C. and A. G. is given the responsibility for auditing all appropriation accounts by the 1921 Act . |
| 6 | As the main purchasing authority , DHAs were given the responsibility for ensuring that the health care needs of their resident population were met . |
| 7 | The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He spoke of men 's ‘ sexist ’ behaviour , but laid the responsibility for providing a remedy with women , who must exercise a ‘ civilising influence ’ on these infantile people . |
| 10 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello , firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker . |
| 11 | His Uncle 's illness had placed the responsibility for all the sheep on George 's shoulders . |
| 12 | To whatever degree you have placed the responsibility for your feelings of love and wholeness on someone else , is the degree to which you are bound to disappointment . |
| 13 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , ‘ who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker' ( The Observer 27.7.80 : 2 ) . |
| 14 | She represents the responsibility for choosing life or death ; she encompasses the instinctive and physical processes of gestation and birth , our knowledge of these , and our ability to manipulate them . |
| 15 | In the same way R&D has the main task of carrying out the feasibility study and the development but shares with manufacturing the responsibility for ensuring that the production design is efficient from the latter 's point of view . |
| 16 | In the same way R&D has the main task of carrying out the feasibility study and the development but shares with manufacturing the responsibility for ensuring that the production design is efficient from the latter 's point of view . |
| 17 | Havelock Wilson was not unwilling to accept the responsibility for having united the employers in this fashion even to the extent of acknowledging his rashness in so doing . |
| 18 | It was announced on Oct. 3 that Taizo Hashida , the chairman of Fuji Bank — the world 's third-largest bank — had resigned in order to accept the responsibility for an incident in which former employees of the bank had been accused of forging deposit certificates worth some 257,000 million yen ( $1,920 million ) . |
| 19 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 20 | To nominate a teacher ‘ head of special needs ’ can confine the responsibility for meeting children 's needs to a mere handful of staff . |
| 21 | The new government also set about confirming the land ownership rights of individual members of the population , in order to establish the responsibility for tax payment . |
| 22 | No one likes to bear the responsibility for such decisions . |
| 23 | NATO had proposed to create a new " rapid reaction force " in Europe , which it wanted to bear the responsibility for the front-line defence of the region , as the USA 's own troop presence in Western Europe was wound down [ see p. 38216 ] . |
| 24 | President in seconding the report I would like to make the following points to our safety representatives who have to bear the responsibility for improving conditions at the workplace for our members . |
| 25 | With the departure of the hospital from its jurisdiction , the Bedfordshire County Council retained the responsibility for health centres , the care of mothers and young children , domiciliary midwifery , health visiting , home nursing , vaccination and immunisation , and the ambulance service . |
| 26 | The realism of Labour 's attitude towards foreign policy was reinforced by Bevin 's insistence , both at meetings of the National Executive ( to which he was specially invited ) and at the 1945 Labour Party Conference at Blackpool that it was essential to continue with military service while Britain retained the responsibility for maintaining occupation forces in Germany and elsewhere . |
| 27 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 28 | He has the responsibility for all the editing . |
| 29 | While CNAA remains the accrediting authority for degree status , the Business and Technician Education Council has the responsibility for , and is an increasingly influential body in , the establishment of pre-degree certificates and diplomas . |
| 30 | In the Judaeo-Christian view , while the state has the responsibility for ensuring that the family is an on-going economic concern , the family has the responsibility to look after itself and the welfare of its members . |