Example sentences of "claim responsibility [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although no one had claimed responsibility for the attack by last night , it was apparently being treated as a terrorist incident by the Belgian police . |
| 2 | However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 3 | The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR-A ) also claimed responsibility for the attack , describing it as an act of " popular justice " . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | Indeed , I understand that the Ping Tiao have claimed responsibility for the act . ’ |
| 6 | The IRA has claimed responsibility for the car bomb which exploded near Downing Street this morning . |
| 7 | The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops , policemen and government officials since 1984 . |
| 8 | The Irish National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the shooting . |
| 9 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters later claimed responsibility for the shooting . |
| 10 | One of the men , Declan Derek Duffy , 19 , known as ‘ Wacko , ’ has tattooed on his left hand the initials INLA — standing for Irish National Liberation Army which has claimed responsibility for the murder of Sgt Michael Newman , 34 . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | Two groups of the extreme left — the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR ) and the Mapu Latero — were reported to have claimed responsibility for the murder . |
| 13 | 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 " ) . |
| 14 | The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the previously unknown Islamic Revenge Organization ( IRO ) had claimed responsibility for the killing in Ankara on March 7 of Ehud Saha , the security chief at the Israeli embassy there . |
| 15 | The UFF has claimed responsibility for the killing early today of father-of-six Michael Edwards , at his Finaghy home , while an IRA van bomb devastated the centre of Armagh . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A Right-wing extremist group , the White Wolves , yesterday claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 18 | No group claimed responsibility for the attack , but there was speculation that it might be the work either of a " freelance " splinter group in the Medellín drug cartel , or of the rival Cali drug cartel , since the Medellín cartel leaders themselves , and many of their followers , were loyal bullfight fans . |
| 19 | Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack , which took place on the eve of the opening of the Middle East peace conference in Madrid [ see p. 38513 ] . |
| 20 | In a statement released on Jan. 22 the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla movement claimed responsibility for the attack , which allegedly used surface-to-air missiles . |
| 21 | No-one claimed responsibility for the attack , but Hezbollah and Syria both blamed Israel . |
| 22 | One person was killed and six injured in Athens on July 14 when an anti-tank rocket narrowly missed Finance Minister Ioannis Paleokrassas ; the November 17 group claimed responsibility for the attack , which took place in Constitution Square , central Athens . |
| 23 | No organization claimed responsibility for the attack , the first such random bombing in the latest wave of unrest . |
| 24 | The IRA claimed responsibility for the station attacks , blaming the Victoria casualties on " the cynical decision … not to evacuate railway stations " after a caller had warned 45 minutes earlier that bombs were to go off at all mainline stations . |
| 25 | The National Liberation Movement ( MLN ) claimed responsibility for the explosion of a bomb outside the US embassy which was reported to have caused no damage . |
| 26 | On Nov. 7 , 1989 , the truce was broken by the FLNC which claimed responsibility for the bombing of two buildings under construction in Santa Lucia di Porto Vecchio in the north of the island . |
| 27 | In a counterattack the FARC claimed responsibility for the bombing of a bus in Medellín on Dec. 12 in which seven police officers were killed ; for five widely separated attacks on Dec. 13 during which an Army helicopter was badly damaged and an unspecified number of soldiers killed ; for the dynamiting of a police post in Medellín on Dec. 15 ; and the blowing up of an aircraft at the Villa Garzon airport , 482 km south of Bogotá in the south-western region of Putumayo , on Dec. 16 ( all 19 passengers having been evacuated beforehand ) . |
| 28 | The IRA yesterday claimed responsibility for the bomb outrage at the New Forest cottage owned by Alan Dysart , parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for … . |
| 29 | Members of the left-wing organization Dev Sol claimed responsibility for the killing in Ankara on Jan. 30 of Gen. ( retd ) Hulusi Sayin , commander from 1987 to 1989 of security forces fighting Kurdish guerrillas in the south-east . |
| 30 | Members of the left-wing extremist group , Dev Sol claimed responsibility for the killing of a US civilian , Bobby Eugene Mozelle , at the Incirlik air base near Adana on Feb. 7 . |