Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Rail has accepted responsibility for the accident and will be starting its own internal inquiry tomorrow . |
| 2 | Accepted this indicates whether the Current holder has accepted responsibility for the SPR ( Y ) or not ( N ) . |
| 3 | The last user to whom an SPR is passed is regarded as its current holder whether or not this user has accepted responsibility for it . |
| 4 | Current holder the LIFESPAN user name of the person to whom the SPR was most recently passed , whether that user has accepted responsibility for it or not . |
| 5 | The Notts & Derbyshire branch has taken responsibility for publishing the region 's CPD Newsletter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ms Stacey said : ‘ It is a national pastime and the islanders have to take responsibility for the slaughter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | European countries urged to take responsibility for waste |
| 11 | Indeed , I understand that the Ping Tiao have claimed responsibility for the act . ’ |
| 12 | Management have to take responsibility for over ninety five percent of the problems we get , whether they 're safety problems , quality problems or whatever problems . |
| 13 | General practitioners may need viable alternatives to Graham Butland 's proposals to avoid losing responsibility for their practices . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Such an addition could well be implied into the contract by the court anyway , in instances where the seller refused to recognise responsibility for a defect even though he was clearly responsible , so that the refusal amounted to clear unreasonableness or even bad faith . |
| 17 | No organisation has admitted responsibility for the killing . |
| 18 | I take your point Anne , but I would prefer to help the MP understand that the nature of the way that this department is run is that officers do take responsibility for their specialist areas of work , the senior management has always supported that , and I do n't feel minded to change it because the MP finds it difficult . |
| 19 | Since the Clean Air Act of 1956 governments in the UK have taken responsibility for designating clean air zones in which certain types of pollution , notably the smoke caused by burning coal , are illegal . |
| 20 | Implementation of the Initiative University-wide lies with four groups : the Energy and Environment Group co-ordinates good institutional practice , including compliance with the relevant legislation ; the Environmental Teaching Group promotes teaching and curriculum development ; the Environmental Research Group promotes environmental research activity throughout the University ; and the Environmental Advisory Group , made up of the convenors of the other three groups and Senior Vice-Principal Barrie Wilson , to whom the Principal has delegated responsibility for the Initiative , oversees the entire project . |
| 21 | By April 1994 , the ES intends to take responsibility for negotiating pay with the appropriate trade unions for everyone in the ES . |
| 22 | Facilitation means taking responsibility for making the fundamental changes necessary for true integration , whilst accepting the direction for that change from Disabled people 's own organisations . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the meantime , however , the Library continues to exercise responsibility for the property that it occupies and controls . |
| 25 | Instead , DEC 's Unix-based Software and Systems Marketing and Planning Group manager Matt Kochen and Laurie Buller from the product management group staff attempted to pin responsibility for what they termed the ‘ confusion ’ in the marketplace over DEC 's actual position on misguided press reports — an allegation stoutly and unanimously resisted by senior members of the US press corps and analysts who have been close to the story . |
| 26 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 27 | The signatories of the Charter have accepted responsibility for maintaining the good code of practice and also agree to disseminate the document through their organisations , encouraging their managers to actively participate . |
| 28 | The federal government has assumed responsibility for Columbia 's debts after the company went bankrupt , and California is now negotiating to pay off some of the monies owed by Maxxam in return for taking over the forest . |
| 29 | Italy has refused responsibility for the waste and Turkey " has no wish to jeopardise its relations with a country which could help it to enter the European Community " . |
| 30 | Society has accepted responsibility for seeing that their needs are met in a piecemeal fashion , tackling the most obvious needs first — those for financial provision , medical care and residential accommodation . |