Example sentences of "[vb infin] on the responsibility " in BNC.

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1 They will take on the responsibility for providing stock and glasses , experienced staff and will also obtain the necessary licence for the event .
2 Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned .
3 Although it welcomed the extension of home ownership , it also recognized the problems of families who could not or would not take on the responsibility of home purchase ( Department of the Environment 1977b ) .
4 Perhaps the best man could take on the responsibility of arriving before the guests and checking the microphone .
5 How long will he take on the responsibility of a wife who is blind and helpless ?
6 The supreme body was the Council of Heads of State , which would take on the responsibility of legal succession from the dissolution of the Soviet Union .
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