Example sentences of "[pron] had responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 2 | The Stock Exchange 's damning report was sent to the Bank of England and to the Department of Trade 's Licensing Unit , which had responsibility for allowing financial groups to stay in operation . |
| 3 | Reiner Gohlke , executive president of the Treuhandanstalt ( trustee agency ) which had responsibility for overseeing the restructuring of the state-owned businesses in East Germany , resigned on Aug. 20 because of policy disagreements with other members of the governing board [ see p. 37536 for his appointment where his post is wrongly given as chair ] . |
| 4 | Despite Bush 's support for Puerto Rican statehood ( declared in 1989 ) , the referendum plan was killed on Feb. 27 , 1991 , when the US Senate energy and natural resources committee ( which had responsibility for the legislation ) failed to secure a majority to bring the bill authorizing the referendum before the Senate . |
| 5 | Although she had responsibility for other areas , she considered that her appointment had begun to dissolve some of the negative feelings caused by the lack of a link person . |
| 6 | She had responsibility for training and managing her own Administrative Assistant , and she did this work with sensitivity , skill , patience and determination . |
| 7 | The official was a member of the staff of the Procurator General who had responsibility for the smooth running of the Correctional Labour Colonies scattered across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 8 | I do n't think I 've got anything new on this so all of this comes out of B T 7 , and this is all to do with Stella 's original paper about who had responsibility for forms and so on . |
| 9 | ‘ I am sure anybody who had responsibility for this collection would have to consider this course of action . ’ |
| 10 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 11 | It had responsibility for two institutions within five miles of each other , both established for the same function and both less than half full . |
| 12 | During his two years as Second Secretary , Administration , in Kingston , Jamaica , when he had responsibility for the accounts , he withdrew $150,000 from the Commission 's US dollar account and paid it into a personal account in America . |
| 13 | He had responsibility for the arrangement of the society 's large mineral collection ( 30,000 specimens , including the famed Leskean cabinet ) in the newly-acquired premises at Leinster House . |
| 14 | As commander of uniform operations department he had responsibility for areas such as traffic , dogs , crime prevention and public relations . |