Example sentences of "had [vb pp] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to this appointment , Graeme Dunlop had undertaken responsibility for P&O European Ferries ( Dover ) Ltd within his role as Managing Director of P&O European Ferries Ltd . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No group had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings but a statement issued by the Palestinian Revolutionary Factions ( PRF , a group believed to have links with the radical Fatah Revolutionary Council or " Fatah rebels " ) on Aug. 7 claimed that Christen and Erriquez would be released within 24 hours . |
| 4 | The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops , policemen and government officials since 1984 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was the first time the FIS had claimed responsibility for a violent incident . |
| 7 | Both groups had claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on Antonio Rios , former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela ( CTV ) and a leading member of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , who had recently resigned from his post to face trial on charges of influence peddling . |
| 8 | The rail link between Djibouti and Addis Ababa via Dire Dawa was suspended from Oct. 4 as clashes continued between EPRDF forces and Issa groups which since the late 19th century had had responsibility for security along the line . |
| 9 | The decision , taken in the presence of the current Minister of Religion Nicolae Stoicescu ( an old acquaintence of Teoctist who had shared responsibility for religious affairs under Ceausescu ) , was not universally welcomed . |
| 10 | There was no 1940 general election and by 1945 the voters remembered both that the Labour Party had shared responsibility for winning the war and that it had opposed the Conservative policies which led to the war . |
| 11 | From 1927 in Cambridgeshire , the Board , with the assistance of a three-year Cassell Fund grant , had assumed responsibility for the RCC 's own programme of village lectures and short courses for which the latter received grant-aid from the LEA . |
| 12 | The corporation had assumed responsibility for the site in 1945 and had purchased the land in 1957 , although technically it was in the rural district area . |
| 13 | John Tennant 's father had died while John was still in his twenties and as well as taking over Laigh Corton Farm , he had taken responsibility for his mother and the rest of the family . |
| 14 | Fields privately resented the way in which Branson had taken responsibility for the purchase of the first Virgin aircraft ; while Branson , for his part , grew increasingly alarmed at the way in which his new partner appeared to be running the rest of the company . |
| 15 | In addition , one partner had taken responsibility for overseeing the whole process . |
| 16 | A large number of problems has been encountered , one of the most surprising being the fact that no UK Government department had taken responsibility for enforcing the EEC controls on the sale of protected wildlife specimens . |
| 17 | Gerard Harte , 27 , was convicted and sentenced by a Dutch court on April 2 to 18 years in prison for the Roermond murders of May 1990 , when the IRA had admitted responsibility for shooting two Australian tourists mistaken for UK service personnel [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 18 | The dismissals followed the resignation of the chairman of the Doosan Electro-Materials Company , which had admitted responsibility for leaking highly toxic phenol waste into the Naktong River . |
| 19 | The PKK had denied responsibility for a bomb which caused one death in Istanbul on Jan. 25 , claiming that it was carried out as a provocative act by a " counter-guerrilla " force . |
| 20 | It was as if a genius creator , after six days ' labour , had become uninterested in his achievement and had delegated responsibility for the rule and administration of his work to a band of bureaucrats — a tireless bunch of imbeciles , lacking compassion , who justified their role in the scheme of things by ceaselessly inventing trials for man , to keep him on his toes . |