Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities remain responsible for the basic costs and the task of collecting household waste . |
| 2 | In 1974 further functions were taken away : 10 regional water authorities became responsible for water supply and sewerage . |
| 3 | In January 1981 district planning authorities became responsible for determining all planning applications which were formerly classified as county matters under the Local Government Act 1972 . |
| 4 | In the future , admission to nursing or residential care will be conditional on assessment , and with local authorities becoming responsible for the costs of residents requiring public support , such admissions will come under critical financial scrutiny . |
| 5 | Germans made responsible for internal arrangements … " |
| 6 | Finally I wish to report that Terry Snow , Peter Jacob and Clive Labovitch will be continuing as Chairmen of their respective subsidiary companies for so long as the executive directors remain responsible for their companies . |
| 7 | It will become a criminal offence not to comply fully with any investigations , and it will be possible to impose substantial financial penalties , not only upon the companies operating a prohibited agreement , but also upon those directors found responsible for negotiating or operating such an agreement . |
| 8 | But once the size of companies expanded further it was very easy to accommodate the fact that whilst directors remained responsible for the formulation of the overall policy of the company the ordinary management was entrusted to executives . |
| 9 | Irwin also canvassed with Salisbury an improved form of dyarchy , the elaborate system set up in 1921 whereby elected Indian ministers in the provincial governments were entrusted with various unexciting portfolios , while British officials remained responsible for the essentials of law , order and taxation . |
| 10 | The failure of the Director of Public Prosecutions , QC , to instigate any criminal charges against the six police officers found responsible for the unlawful killing of , by the inquest jury on November 29th 1991 at Middlesborough Coroners ’ Court . |
| 11 | invites the Bar Council to investigate the decision by the DPP not to prosecute the six police officers found responsible for the unlawful killing of . |
| 12 | These 4,505 persons are treated as representative of persons considered responsible for crime during the mature colonial period . |
| 13 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 14 | United Distillers has four geographical regions : Europe , North America , Asia-Pacific and International ( rest of the world ) , with an Operations group responsible for worldwide production and physical distribution . |
| 15 | The men made responsible for victualling were all active in and around Southampton . |
| 16 | The men made responsible for victualling were all active in and around Southampton . |
| 17 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 18 | There is a difference , I think , between making children feel responsible for righting the wrongs of the world that we as adults have created , but at the same time to be able to enable them to think constructively as to what they can do . |
| 19 | Counties and county boroughs became responsible for child care under the 1948 Children Act . |
| 20 | Style accounts for all kinds of nuance between these , and indeed between these and the factors deemed responsible for their manufacture . |
| 21 | We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape . |
| 22 | As to the question of overall responsibility for the system , the Scrutiny team recommended that there should be a nationally based Legal Services Board responsible for all aspects of legal aid and advice , controlling all the necessary operations through the existing area offices directly and through agents in the courts . |