Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Neither wants to accept responsibility for the repairs needed since the previous contractor went into liquidation . |
| 4 | It also has to assume responsibility for those children who lack parents or are not receiving proper care . |
| 5 | In that case , it has to take responsibility for allocating all foreign exchange to the users by administrative methods . |
| 6 | The course is adapted for each group , and the group itself has to take responsibility for completing the assigned tasks . |
| 7 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 8 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |
| 9 | Lastly , you may be perfectly healthy but are one of those increasing number of people who want to take responsibility for their own well-being and wish to discover more about themselves . |
| 10 | Previously , after six weeks the students would teach one ( heavily prepared ) lesson ; now , in theory , at least , they could be expected to take responsibility for a class for six or seven weeks . |
| 11 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 12 | Whom do you trust to take responsibility for Britain 's defence ; to keep us safe and strengthen our influence for good ? |
| 13 | In practice this rarely seems to work and the school needs to take responsibility for much of the incidental training . |
| 14 | And the head — above all — needs to take responsibility for the whole programme . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Investors should expect to shoulder responsibility for any damage or injury arising after privatisation , and demarcation disputes were likely over liabilities from the past , he said . |
| 17 | I look at her in surprise and she shrugs gracelessly , as if she were refusing to take responsibility for her indolence rather than her zeal . |
| 18 | He accused the Conservatives of attempting to duck responsibility for the recession they had created . |
| 19 | We know that Russia would like to assume responsibility for the arsenal within its borders . |
| 20 | Bosnian leaders , however , accused the FRY of attempting to deny responsibility for Serb attacks , such as the June 23 shelling which killed at least 14 people in Sarajevo city centre , which was crowded with people after an apparent lull in the fighting . |
| 21 | This is surrounded by images of body fragments which ask questions ( ‘ How do I begin to take responsibility for my body ? ’ ) taken in an early phototherapy session . |
| 22 | It 's possible to use a game as a way of demonstrating to children how they can begin to take responsibility for their own learning . |
| 23 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 24 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 25 | He asked : ‘ Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 26 | Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 27 | By April 1994 , the ES intends to take responsibility for negotiating pay with the appropriate trade unions for everyone in the ES . |
| 28 | How Do I Begin to Take Responsibility for my Body ? |
| 29 | Beginning to take responsibility for their own property , they may be proud to count how many paintings they have done or sort their work from the pile , to take home . |
| 30 | Other teachers involved in the intake year were invited to take responsibility for preparing materials for some areas of the new curriculum . |