Example sentences of "responsibility for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He became Channel 4 's first Commissioning Editor for Sport when the channel opened in November 1982 and went on to become Senior Commissioning Editor with responsibility for a wide range of programmes including documentaries and children 's .
2 That in France , about which most information is available , had at various times responsibility for a wide variety of technical services — couriers , diplomatic bags , codes and , much more significantly , personnel and appointments .
3 Primary nursing , which is becoming more widely used , is a method of delivering care in which one nurse takes nursing responsibility for a small group of people throughout their period of care .
4 The tsar 's attempts to dictate policy from St Petersburg had culminated , in 1842 , in the creation of the Sixth Department of the Imperial Chancery , the only subdivision of that body to be charged with responsibility for a discrete geographical area .
5 But guilt is also within us — it is our feeling , realistic or not , that we have responsibility for a specific or amorphous offence against humanity or God .
6 The fact of taking charge or taking responsibility for a vulnerable elderly relative requires considerable moral courage which tends to fall to women ( Graham , 1983 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) .
7 But if he accepted , and then resigned the archbishopric into the hands of the pope , as he continued to wish to do , the responsibility for a new appointment would lie with the pope , and Anselm would ‘ justly ’ be free from a position which he hated .
8 So when the Training and Enterprise Councils were given responsibility for a new stream of scheme they said quite rightly I think that they would only support survivable businesses .
9 Each runs one of the restaurants , and also takes responsibility for a major functional area .
10 It was the first time the FIS had claimed responsibility for a violent incident .
11 The responsibility for a particular budget should be clearly defined ;
12 Until the Public Records Act 1958 the care and preservation of public records were in the hands of the Master of the Rolls , an anachronistic responsibility for a senior judge who in his modern incarnation is fully occupied in presiding over the civil work of the Court of Appeal .
13 Part-time male reservists do only sanger ( guard ) duty , either at the station or at other locations ; female reservists are restricted in the main to the guard room inside the station , with only full-time reserve policemen carrying the responsibility for a broader range of tasks , although few are involved in the paperwork for a case file .
14 There is no need for Nigel Lawson to resign , although he and the Prime Minister share responsibility for a disastrous lapse from Thatcherite principles .
15 Where we have the , the erm , responsibility for a formal consultation , er , then we need to set about that process as soon as possible to try and meet our deadline , Mr Chairman .
16 This person 's manager , who had profit and loss responsibility for a large division within the company , was warmly and favorably described as ‘ non-political ’ :
17 She 's matched with a somewhat feckless husband and has the sole responsibility for a large family .
18 Returning to London , Crawford supplemented his income by working as a waiter at Lyons ' Corner House , in Westminster , showing his athleticism by taking responsibility for a whole floor , a task normally given to four waiters .
19 The areas chosen are all areas where the bilateral relationship is strongly apparent , and where the impact of bilateral action upon third parties may provoke a third party response : treaty law , international judicial and arbitral procedure , and responsibility for an international wrong , with particular reference to armed conflict .
20 The requirements for State responsibility for an international wrongful act are breach of an international obligation which is attributable to the State .
21 Balaguer , who was blind and reportedly severely incapacitated , was accused of responsibility for an economic crisis , high unemployment and constant power failures , and of channelling available resources into the completion of the huge Colón lighthouse project , a contribution to the 1992 celebrations of 500th anniversary of Columbus 's arrival in the Americas , and also seen as a memorial to Balaguer himself .
22 The experience of becoming an adult child taking filial responsibility for an elderly parent or another aged relative , has been documented in American literature ( Blenkner , 1965 ) .
23 The IRA claimed responsibility for an attempted " human bomb " attack on Nov. 23 in County Tyrone , involving 3,700 lb of explosives ( the largest device ever used by the IRA ) .
24 Indeed the importance of the correct citing of an author 's spelling is regularly marked by the insertion of sic into a citation by a second author who wishes to disclaim responsibility for an aberrant spelling .
25 The film ended with Wayne assuming responsibility for an orphaned Vietnamese boy to the strains of The Ballad of the Green Berets and the sun apparently setting in the east , a scene which outraged his critics but apparently brought tears to the eyes of many less demanding viewers .
26 However , the responsibility for the resultant problem can not be blamed solely on an overbearing parent ; there is also a marriage partner who is failing to stand firm on biblical priorities at the expense of his or her partner .
27 In 1986 the International Whaling Commission , which has responsibility for the baleen whales , declared a moratorium on commercial whaling of the 11 great whales so that stock could be assessed .
28 As a Director of P&O Developments , he will have responsibility for the Continental European property development and investment portfolio .
29 Like the head , he saw the lack of a librarian as a serious deficiency and gave priority to the securing of someone to " manage " the library ( and assume responsibility for the part-time assistant ) .
30 The rural district council relied on the assumption of responsibility by the corporation in 1945 , while the corporation denied responsibility for the former rural district families and claimed that the 1956 Housing Act had made the rural district council responsible for all the families in the camp .
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