Example sentences of "[prep] responsibility for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will , as a matter of urgency , discuss with Hong Kong 's representatives what measures may best enhance democracy and confidence during Britain 's five remaining years of responsibility for the colony . |
| 2 | Earlier , the change of emphasis from a ‘ social ’ to an ‘ economic and environmental ’ focus had been reflected in a switch of responsibility for the Programme from the Home Office to the Department of the Environment . |
| 3 | Ruthie folded her arms , as if to emphasize her lack of responsibility for the shop she was minding . |
| 4 | Regretfully traditional inspection often shifts the focus of responsibility for the quality of performance away from the person carrying out the work . |
| 5 | THE BBC is to be stripped of responsibility for the Queen 's annual Christmas TV broadcast , ending a tradition going back 60 years . |
| 6 | Disagreement has tended to centre upon the issue of responsibility for the evident political incompatibility of left and right and the consequent unworkability of Republican democracy . |
| 7 | Education meant infinitely more than good schools programmes ; a whole approach , rather , to broadcasting as a means of widening horizons , opening doors , increasing awareness — all the well meant speech — day cliches of the educationist , working with the privilege of experience and knowledge and with a sense of responsibility for the improvement of those they serve . |
| 8 | With the movement of responsibility for the Russian market from the UK to its Mountain View headquarters in California Sun has made a considerable drive in the scientific and academic markets in Russia . |
| 9 | If there were just two , as in the face-to-face dialogue , then the ethical would preside as the injunction of responsibility for the other . |
| 10 | Unless there is a really determined effort to ‘ burn the books ’ , and reduce this tangle of bureaucracy , the people at the bottom of the organization on whom everything depends feel an increasing lack of responsibility for the achievement of the objective . |
| 11 | The definition of house-wifery is cast in terms of responsibility for the running of a home . |
| 12 | Was the V. & A. 's Chairman trying to tell us something about the government 's degree of responsibility for the staff restructuring plans announced by the V. & A. 's Director and rashly endorsed by himself in 1989 ? |
| 13 | The definition of housewifery is cast in terms of responsibility for the running of the home ( Oakley , 1974 , p. 38 ) . |
| 14 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |
| 15 | We feel a keen sense of responsibility for the sick and needy . |
| 16 | Capitalizing on the Melby report they suggested that Paris should pass a large measure of responsibility for the Indo-Chinese problem to the UN : thus enlisting wider support from free Asian countries and perhaps even inhibiting Chinese communist support for Ho Chi Minh . |
| 17 | The offender had a degree of responsibility for the victim , there was evidence of planning and the victim , while not as young as some victims , was only 13 . |
| 18 | If a church is large enough it may support artistic performing groups and there is often a sense of responsibility for the education of that community 's children in language , traditional customs , crafts , music and dance . |
| 19 | For those unemployed and with a family , the added worry of responsibility for the next generation must be bewildering . |
| 20 | Readers attributed to Martyn a degree of responsibility for the content of the journal , and some sent their comments to him rather than to Oldenburg . |
| 21 | Is he aware that there are problems not only in respect of teachers ' salaries , actual as opposed to average , but in respect of responsibility for the funding of the older village primary schools which predominate in rural areas ? |
| 22 | The evidence of responsibility for the carnage and destruction is too overwhelming to be ignored . |
| 23 | Among other things , the decree proposed propaganda campaigns to " teach every Lao citizen to love nature and to develop a sense of responsibility for the preservation of forests " . |
| 24 | The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace ( CCJP ) issued a statement in Harare on March 27 accusing ZANU-PF of responsibility for the near-fatal shooting incident which , allegedly , occurred in the presence of uniformed police , and which it described as a " gross misuse of state machinery for intimidation purposes " . |
| 25 | A statement by the Polish government said that the question of responsibility for the Katyn massacre had " weighed particularly painfully " on Polish-Soviet relations , and that the " long-awaited " Soviet admission made possible a relationship based on " partnership and true friendship " . |
| 26 | The Independent of Aug. 27 reported that Bhutto also faced a murder charge : a writ filed on Aug. 25 by members of the Muhajir community ( descendants of Urdu-speaking immigrants ) accused her of responsibility for the death of several people during an incident on May 26 when police opened fire on a crowd in Hyderabad , Sind [ see p. 37452 ] . |
| 27 | Following the talks the then East German Prime Minister , Hans Modrow , acknowledged that his country bore a share of responsibility for the Nazi war crimes and expressed a willingness to pay reparations to victims . |
| 28 | On Dec. 19 Ryzhkov had admitted to the Congress his share of responsibility for the collapse of the economy . |
| 29 | On the same day Prime Minister Ro Jai Bong resigned to indicate his assumption of responsibility for the continuing unrest . |
| 30 | Escobar , accused of responsibility for the murder of hundreds of people over a 10-year period , including a Justice Minister , an Attorney General , at least one presidential candidate [ see p. 36844 ] and 107 passengers aboard a domestic flight [ see p. 37041 ] , was not expected to stand trial for at least a year . |