Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soldiers for Justice group had already claimed responsibility for the murder in March 1989 of the head of the Moslem community in Belgium [ see p. 36538 ] , and for the 1988 kidnapping in Lebanon of a Belgian doctor , Jan Cools , who was freed on June 15 , 1989 [ see pp. 36365 ; 37164 ] . |
| 2 | British Rail has already accepted responsibility for the matter , as the Secretary of State has pointed out . |
| 3 | Mr Rutskoi has already had responsibility for agriculture taken away , along with his official Mercedes and doctor . |
| 4 | The top echelons of the civil service have generally abjured responsibility for policy decisions . |
| 5 | On both occasions his injuries led to enforced absences during which Pateman generously assumed responsibility for much of the District 's administrative work . |
| 6 | The state thus assumed responsibility for deaf education but , as we shall see , its advance had a chequered history . |
| 7 | The contract army thus extended responsibility for military recruitment very widely through society , and the many knights who brought a handful of men-at-arms and archers were as important an element in the make-up of the contract army as the retainers of the magnate himself . |
| 8 | These directors were usually given responsibility for all aspects of quality except medical quality , which was left to the initiatives of the Royal Colleges ( see , for instance , RCGP 1985 ; Campling et al. |
| 9 | She said the Iranian government had always disclaimed responsibility for Khordad 15 , said to be a religious charity . |
| 10 | Although they have always had responsibility for trainees , this is to be made more formal within the framework of the basic training common core . |
| 11 | In 1919 he was also given responsibility for founding the new signals intelligence ( sigint ) agency , the Government Code and Cipher School ( GC and CS ) . |
| 12 | Skinner was also given responsibility for liaising closely with the troika at the apex of Bush 's re-election campaign . |
| 13 | The Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) later claimed responsibility for the attack , the first to cause civilian deaths on the mainland since February 1991 [ see pp. 38019-20 ] . |
| 14 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters later claimed responsibility for the shooting . |
| 15 | The group has also claimed responsibility for a string of murders of journalists and other civic leaders opposed to the cartels and in favour of Mr Barco 's decree authorising the drug traffickers ' extradition to the US . |
| 16 | The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR-A ) also claimed responsibility for the attack , describing it as an act of " popular justice " . |
| 17 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 18 | Dev Sol also claimed responsibility for bomb explosions in the grounds of the French consulate in Istanbul on Feb. 9 . |
| 19 | The IRA also claimed responsibility for the killing of two civilians on Jan. 14 and 15 ( in the latter case a Catholic who , the IRA later admitted , had been shot " in error " ) . |
| 20 | As the responsibility of the Department of Employment , TVEI represents a determined government effort , practically by-passing the government department that has traditionally exercised responsibility for the schools and the school curriculum , to effect a swift and decisive orientation of the curriculum towards what is considered to be of immediate relevance to the skills and know-how required by a technological society . |
| 21 | Lenin was involved in motivating revolutionary action by , in part , a critique of bureaucracy but later assumed responsibility for the economic development of a backward country that needed experts in positions of authority . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Accordingly , the court had now assumed responsibility for the welfare of the girl and the Official Solicitor had become her legal guardian . |
| 24 | On April 3 the People 's Revolutionary Struggle ( ELA ) and the May 1 group jointly claimed responsibility for an explosion outside UN offices and for placing bombs under European diplomats ' cars . |
| 25 | No one else has got , has someone else got responsibility for client contact record sheet ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Chevenement was actually given responsibility for industry as well as research just under a year ago . |
| 28 | However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 29 | He had publicly claimed responsibility for the theft of arms and ammunition from the South African Air Force headquarters in April and for bomb attacks on offices of the National Party . |
| 30 | Newton is head of A&R and joint MD at Circa Records , which has recently assumed responsibility for all of Virgin 's subsidiary labels . |