Example sentences of "[be] make responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prosecutions for offences defined under the Merchant Shipping Acts had almost uniformly failed , and shipowners had escaped altogether from the provisions of the Employers ' Liability Act 1880 in which employers had been made responsible for insuring employees against the risks of their calling . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , multiple persons and entities , such as ‘ shipowners , ’ ‘ charterers , ’ ‘ possessors of property shipped , ’ ‘ masters of the vessel , ’ their ‘ agents , ’ and even ‘ ships ’ are referred to as carriers in bill of lading law and practice once they are made responsible for loss or damage to cargo . |
| 3 | He left open the possibility that Girobank , recently privatised , could be made responsible for collecting repayments and chasing defaulters , the number of whom could rise significantly above the Government 's current estimates . |
| 4 | Each one may be made responsible for a specific task . |
| 5 | A national system of appraisal might also encourage the teacher unions to unite in a demand for the establishment of a Teachers ' Council which could be made responsible for regulating entry to teaching and for establishing a code of conduct ( particularly important when teachers are able , in appraisal schemes , to judge their colleagues ) . |
| 6 | First , it recommended that local authorities should be made responsible for all long-term care of mentally handicapped and physically handicapped people , except for the rare few in need of permanent 24-hour medical supervision , who would remain the responsibility of the NHS . |
| 7 | The basis of morality and law-abiding behaviour has become the family and it follows that parents must be made responsible for their children 's misdemeanours . |
| 8 | The name of the user to be made responsible for the SPR . |
| 9 | Each user should be made responsible for checking any SSRs generated for their project and should only submit an SSR once they are satisfied that it correctly and adequately reports the status of an area of software . |
| 10 | " In future , anyone who produces and markets vehicles should also be made responsible for their disposal . " |
| 11 | ( d ) Liabilities Under the Partnership Act a new partner is not to be made responsible for liabilities of the firm accrued before he joins . |
| 12 | Thus , if there is an outright transfer of the matrimonial home to the wife subject to the existing mortgage ( see Chapters 3 , 4 and 7 ) or the matrimonial home is held on certain terms and conditions ( see Chapter 6 ) then the occupant wife should be made responsible for the mortgage payments ( the husband would not be using the house as his only or main residence and so would not be eligible for interest relief ) . |
| 13 | The Trustee Act 1925 , ss31-32 , should be extended ( see Williams on Wills 6th edn , Butterworths , 1987 , vol 2 , p1267 and 1275 ) if monies are to be retained until such child or children come of age , so that the trustees have flexibility in their use of both income and capital of a child 's share of the trust fund , as should the power of investment so that it is not limited by the Trustee Investments Act 1961. ( v ) Insurance — Section 19(1) of the Trustee Act 1925 limits a trustee 's power to insure to insurance against fire to three-quarters of the value of the property ; as the trustees will probably not have any cash , the occupier wife should be made responsible for insurance . |
| 14 | Parents have got to be made responsible for their children 's action , ’ she said . |
| 15 | There have also been symbolic measures ( such as restoring pay beds in NHS facilities ) , minor cuts ( such as withdrawal of supplementary benefits in vacations for students ) , some marginal privatization ( from 1986 employers were made responsible for paying sickness benefit for the first 28 weeks of an employee 's absence from work ) , tougher criteria ( people have to be ‘ actually seeking work ’ to be entitled to receive unemployment benefit and since 1 988 housing benefit is paid to fewer households ) , and an increase in the numbers relying on private medical insurance ( from 4 to 8 per cent since 1979 ) . |
| 16 | The Forestry ( Transfer of Woods ) Act of 1923 transferred the property in them to the forestry Commissioners , who were made responsible for their care and management . |
| 17 | The boroughs and districts were made responsible for high spending services such as education ( except in inner London ) and social services . |
| 18 | Hence the constant , and eventually often vain , calls of the leaders of such new states to surmount ‘ tribalism ’ , ‘ communalism ’ , or whatever forces were made responsible for the failure of the new inhabitants of the Republic of X to feel themselves to be primarily patriotic citizens of X rather than members of some other collectivity . |
| 19 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |
| 20 | In 1325 escheators were made responsible for keeping duplicates of inquisitions of diem clausit and of returns to chancery ; in 1326 a calendar of Contrariant lands was begun , a roll of serjeanties in various counties compiled and further auditors were appointed . |
| 21 | Local authorities were made responsible for the welfare of the handicapped under the National Assistance Act of 1948 . |
| 22 | Outside the metropolitan areas the division of the social policy functions was more even : the counties acquired responsibility for education and social services , while the districts were made responsible for housing . |
| 23 | These authorities were made responsible for the ‘ catechetical instruction ’ of children in elementary schools , according to their parents ' denomination . |
| 24 | The courts and tribunals were made responsible for ensuring the smooth running of electoral campaigns and equal treatment of candidates . |
| 25 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |
| 26 | In the interests of maintaining " fair competition " between public and private providers and the efficient use of capital , a system of capital charges was introduced into the NHS for the first time , and all hospitals were made responsible for meeting the interest and depreciation costs of their existing assets and new investment . |
| 27 | The paragraph reads like a prelude to a claim that the solicitors be made responsible for the loss . |
| 28 | When a bitch in whelp comes into the centre one of the staff is made responsible for her care throughout her stay . |
| 29 | The project starts in the R & D department where one engineer is made responsible for it . |
| 30 | He was made responsible for marine operations , an area of the business totally new to him . |