Example sentences of "[adv] take responsibility for " in BNC.

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1 Be adult enough to take responsibility for what you 've done .
2 However , justifying the decision several days later , Markovic said : " Slovenia had refused all appeals from the federal government and I could no longer take responsibility for the further development of events in the republic . "
3 Every effort is made to ensure prices are accurate and goods available , but best can not take responsibility for either .
4 You are only fifteen , and if your parents will not take responsibility for you , and you will not tell us what you are up at night , the only alternative is for you to go into care .
5 Yet although culpable for serving him , Jax can not take responsibility for the three further moral crossroads through which the boy drove against the red lights — namely the decision to get drunk ; the decision to drive in that state ; and the decision to drive recklessly .
6 Every effort is made to ensure prices are accurate and goods available , but best can not take responsibility for either .
7 In a letter to his lawyers cited by foreign correspondents in Beijing on Feb. 18 , Wang commented on other " leaders and initiators of this movement " who " dared not take responsibility for it and sought to defame it " .
8 We are taking responsibility for people who we were not taking responsibility for before so it is n't sort of entirely buckshee money which we distribute , there are real responsibilities here .
9 I do n't know , I 'm not taking responsibility for you both
10 Most of the ‘ myths ’ exposed in this section are excuses of one sort or another not to take responsibility for your own behaviour .
11 This makes it very easy for climbers not to take responsibility for the rubbish they create .
12 Even when our bodies give us very clear signals that something is wrong , we will hardly ever take responsibility for any problems that we may incur .
13 Each runs one of the restaurants , and also takes responsibility for a major functional area .
14 The panel should also take responsibility for agreeing the remuneration of the assessors .
15 It has been argued that it would make sense for whoever runs the train services to also take responsibility for the track .
16 This board dropped ‘ Unemployment ’ from its title in 1940 when it also took responsibility for supplementary pensions from local authorities ( Wilson 1948:97 — 8 ) .
17 The smallest of the four coalition parties ( the others being the National Coalition Party ( KK ) , the Social Democratic Party ( SSDP ) and the Swedish People 's Party ( SFP ) ) , the SMP , which currently held nine of the 200 seats in parliament , had had only one minister in the Cabinet — Raimo Vistbacka , the Communications Minister , who was replaced by Ilkka Kanerva , who also took responsibility for transport .
18 Administration at local authority level also took responsibility for public consultation about major changes in school organization , for trade union relationships and for detailed arrangements relating to transport , admission procedures , school records , statistics and public relations .
19 First , ever since the war governments had willingly taken responsibility for the management of the national economy and by the late 1960s it was clear that this ‘ management ’ was becoming much less successful : inflation and unemployment were emerging as serious problems and the balance of payments position , upon which Wilson laid such stress , was increasingly precarious .
20 They also take responsibility for the success of the overall operation . ’
21 The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall .
22 ‘ I hereby take responsibility for the objects described overleaf ’ is the forbidding form .
23 Many bands now take responsibility for advertising their gigs , and these posters encourage these self-help initiatives .
24 All the foregoing holds true if the state does not own the business in question but simply takes responsibility for its social return .
25 The argument is that you only have one life , that you are the most important person in the world and that if you do n't take responsibility for your own development , who else will ?
26 You could n't take responsibility for living bodies , blood that can flow , nerves that can actually feel .
27 " But I could n't take responsibility for them , " Mr. Mendez said .
28 Principally taking responsibility for the broad area of labour economics including trends in the labour market , pay and problems of wastage and recruitment .
29 This option must be used when an SPR has been passed on 6 times using option 3.4.0 — Accept/Reject SPR and no-one has yet taken responsibility for it .
30 When a brownie adopts a house he happily takes responsibility for many household tasks , which he performs at night .
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