Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] responsibility for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board admitted responsibility for the affair and apologised for any ‘ errors ’ in accepting Mr Birt 's freelance status which gave him tax advantages . |
| 2 | The board admitted responsibility for the affair and apologised for any ‘ errors ’ in accepting Mr Birt 's freelance status which gave him tax advantages . |
| 3 | The Ulster Volunteer Force admitted responsibility for the shooting and claimed that the man was an active Irish Republican Army member who had been involved with the killing of four Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers at Downpatrick , Co Down , in April 1990 . |
| 4 | Dahl retained responsibility for the environment while the energy portfolio went to Rune Molin , vice-president of the Trade Union Confederation ( LO ) , who also took over the industry portfolio from Ivar Nordberg . |
| 5 | The outlawed loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters claimed responsibility for the murder and the bomb attack on the home of Gerard McGuigan . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The left-wing extremist group Dev Sol claimed responsibility for the killing on March 22 in Istanbul of a US businessman . |
| 9 | The ELN claimed responsibility for the murder on Nov. 24 of Juan Barragán Ruiz , a Conservative Party ( PCC ) congressional deputy who was shot dead in the north-western city of Bucaramanga . |
| 10 | The UVF claimed responsibility for the shootings on Jan. 4 and Jan. 30 of Catholic civilians who it claimed were members of the IRA . |
| 11 | Lt.-Col. Charles Emile Mbayo was replaced as Minister of Transport , Communications and Tourism by Frank Kargbo , Lt. Julius Maada Bio relinquished responsibility for the Ministry of Information , Broadcasting and Culture to Oreh Awoonor-Renner , and Lt. Samuel Komba Kambo at the Ministry of Labour , Energy and Power was replaced by Alex R. E. Browne . |
| 12 | Jaruzelski took responsibility for the act , but repeated his assertion that martial law had prevented the greater evil of an invasion by the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | The teacher tutors took responsibility for the development of all the work of the classes concerned ( fourth and fifth year ) . |
| 14 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 15 | The importance of the Federation to the District was considerably increased when the Cambridge Board assumed responsibility for the Bedfordshire Rural Scheme and appointed Shearman as its resident tutor in 1930 . |
| 16 | Mr Cushley 's departure leaves just one officer retaining the SACC rank in the force compared to three when Sir Hugh assumed responsibility for the RUC four years ago . |
| 17 | Kanemaru accepted responsibility for the payment and resigned as vice-president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) . |
| 18 | The ANC denied responsibility for the attack , and there was renewed suspicion about a " third force " deliberately inciting enmity among the black population . |
| 19 | Two groups claimed responsibility for the murder : one — Brussels-based — calling itself Young Palestine , Proud and Free the other , under the name Soldiers for Justice , claimed the killing from Lebanon . |
| 20 | The Yugoslav Federal Defence Secretariat admitted responsibility for the " undesired and tragic accident " , and the immediate suspension of Yugoslav air force commander Col. Zvonko Jurjevic suggested that the Yugoslav government was hoping to prevent the incident from impeding the deployment of UN troops . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The left-wing Dev Sol group claimed responsibility for the shooting of a policeman in Istanbul on April 5 , for the shooting of Gen. Memduh Unluturk at his Istanbul home on April 9 , and for nine bombs which damaged banks and business premises , but caused no injuries , in Istanbul and Adana on April 29-30 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And last night the same group claimed responsibility for the murder of Roman Catholic Michael Edwards at his Finaghy home . |
| 25 | In the third case , one teacher took responsibility for the majority , while the other looked after a small group , or even an individual . |
| 26 | In July 1878 , though , the Bureau of Indian Affairs assumed responsibility for the Nez Perce , and transferred them south to the parched 7000-acre Quapaw Reservation in Kansas Territory . |
| 27 | THE outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters last night claimed responsibility for the murder of a Catholic man as he sat in a van on the outskirts of north Belfast . |
| 28 | In a move meeting with approval from the financial markets Pierre Bérégovoy retained responsibility for the economy , finance and budget ; reflecting Cresson 's commitment to industrial regeneration , his responsibilities were expanded [ see attachments of Ministers-Delegate ] . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 ] . |