Example sentences of "[verb] [art] responsibility for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank . |
| 2 | Ministers like Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang , themselves committed to extending reform and making China a richer , modern nation , were given the responsibility for easing the difficulties . |
| 3 | The C. and A. G. is given the responsibility for auditing all appropriation accounts by the 1921 Act . |
| 4 | As the main purchasing authority , DHAs were given the responsibility for ensuring that the health care needs of their resident population were met . |
| 5 | One of the clan groups was given the responsibility for securing the delivery of the food to the warehouses , but the internal divisions and the lorry drivers ' loyalties mean that some food is always stolen , or lost to corruption . |
| 6 | In the learned hierarchy the term — literally " one who is assiduous , constant in attendance ’ was used for a candidate for office at any stage in his career , for the muderris or kadi awaiting his next post as well as for the beginner , the term in Ottoman usage perhaps reflecting the fact that the candidates were in constant attendance theoretically upon the sultan but in fact more usually upon the kazaskers , in whose hands lay the responsibility for nominating men for most posts until near the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | He spoke of men 's ‘ sexist ’ behaviour , but laid the responsibility for providing a remedy with women , who must exercise a ‘ civilising influence ’ on these infantile people . |
| 8 | She represents the responsibility for choosing life or death ; she encompasses the instinctive and physical processes of gestation and birth , our knowledge of these , and our ability to manipulate them . |
| 9 | In the same way R&D has the main task of carrying out the feasibility study and the development but shares with manufacturing the responsibility for ensuring that the production design is efficient from the latter 's point of view . |
| 10 | In the same way R&D has the main task of carrying out the feasibility study and the development but shares with manufacturing the responsibility for ensuring that the production design is efficient from the latter 's point of view . |
| 11 | Havelock Wilson was not unwilling to accept the responsibility for having united the employers in this fashion even to the extent of acknowledging his rashness in so doing . |
| 12 | To nominate a teacher ‘ head of special needs ’ can confine the responsibility for meeting children 's needs to a mere handful of staff . |
| 13 | The realism of Labour 's attitude towards foreign policy was reinforced by Bevin 's insistence , both at meetings of the National Executive ( to which he was specially invited ) and at the 1945 Labour Party Conference at Blackpool that it was essential to continue with military service while Britain retained the responsibility for maintaining occupation forces in Germany and elsewhere . |
| 14 | It also has the responsibility for controlling the money supply , which largely consists of bank deposits . |
| 15 | As is also the case for other Amerindian leaders , he has the responsibility for peace-making . |
| 16 | As indicated in Chapter 1 , top management , led by the chief executive officer — usually the managing director in the UK — has the responsibility for creating the strategic plan for the company . |
| 17 | Its functions differ from those of English RACs in that , in addition to acting as an association of local authorities , as an examining board , and as an RAC , it also has the responsibility for promoting the Welsh language and culture in education . |
| 18 | I should have thought that it was a good idea so that he could see , from time to time , individual complaints about the businesses that he has the responsibility for regulating . |
| 19 | In the Judaeo-Christian view , while the state has the responsibility for ensuring that the family is an on-going economic concern , the family has the responsibility to look after itself and the welfare of its members . |
| 20 | Under this section , the police authority and not the chief officer of police , has the responsibility for ensuring the complaint is investigated . |
| 21 | Today the marketing executive has the responsibility for co-ordinating all aspects of a product or service : packaging , labelling and presenting the product in a manner likely to improve its saleability , then fully exploiting existing markets , always thinking of new ideas and plans for creating new markets . |
| 22 | In some ( e.g. scientific publications ) the Publication Officer also has the responsibility for disseminating the publication to the appropriate ‘ targets ’ . |
| 23 | Later he bore the responsibility for maintaining his mother and siblings , after his father , given to drink and radicalism , had migrated to America in the wake of the Peterloo massacre ( 1819 ) . |
| 24 | Every person has a responsibility for maintaining safety while travelling . |
| 25 | 1.2 SCOTVEC , as custodian of the National Certificate Catalogue of module descriptors has a responsibility for maintaining an up-to-date provision . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 27 | As new services develop , health and social services should agree between them how they are going to allocate the responsibility for ensuring that every mentally disordered person has sufficient income to live on without the fear of poverty . |
| 28 | He rejects the idea that industry ought to keep workers on simply to fulfil a responsibility for maintaining full employment and he also argues that it will be impossible to increase the tax base enough to create employment in labour-intensive services such as health and education . |
| 29 | Some research archives such as the ESRC Data Archive have begun to approach the problem by shifting the responsibility for documenting the datasets to the depositor ( Lievesley 1993 ) . |
| 30 | The answer … is not to resign ourselves to our women 's role — in a woman 's place — and demand payment for staying put , but to collectivise childcare , to share the responsibility for bringing up children within the community . |