Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , Compact involves students in setting and monitoring their own goals and hence encourages them to take responsibility for their own success or failure . |
| 2 | I should have let you take responsibility for your actions instead of trying to protect you . |
| 3 | The RSPCA want us to take responsibility for our rubbish … and take it home … out of harms way . |
| 4 | Well , obviously none of us would want to separate sex from erotica , and so er , and I think we , what we 'd like , what we wanted the leaflet to do was put , put sort of sex for , for young people er and students in particular in this case into a framework that allowed loving and resp , response of attitudes and , and eroticism , yes , and so I think what the leaflet does is , is let people take care of themselves sexually and let them take responsibility for their sexual acts . |
| 5 | The payoffs for being a victim are simple : it allows us to avoid responsibility for our lives , to wallow in self-pity rather than taking care of ourselves , and to punish others . |
| 6 | But I do say that we , the ordinary man , must either insist he takes responsibility for what he discovers , and does concern himself with the ethics of its methods and application , or accept the responsibility to ourselves , and make our own decisions about how science is used . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the first rules an executive in your salary grade has to accept , ’ he sliced her off , ‘ is that when the flak starts flying you take responsibility for what comes out of your office whether your signature 's on the work or not ! ’ |
| 8 | I have a real difficulty in locating who has responsibility for the dustbins . ’ |
| 9 | Second , Fuchs blamed the deficit on the museum 's poor administrative structure , ‘ I did not have a system which enabled me to accept responsibility for the financial affairs of the museums ’ . |
| 10 | If colleges were experienced in validation and had developed acceptable validation procedures , the Council made Validation Procedures Agreements with them which enabled them to take responsibility for the organisation of validation for their own pilot schemes . |
| 11 | They are taught what our moral philosophy calls ‘ the other-regarding virtues ’ , those that enable one to take responsibility for one 's actions towards others ( see Overing 1985 ) . |
| 12 | He has since sought help from Esther Rantzen 's That 's Life programme in an effort to get someone to accept responsibility for his losses . |
| 13 | Abdesellam himself took responsibility for the Economy Ministry , as had Ghozali before him . |
| 14 | Do you take responsibility for the day-to-day running of it ? |
| 15 | Do you take responsibility for them as an active dad ? |
| 16 | ‘ Do you accept responsibility for his death ? ’ |
| 17 | Do we accept responsibility for the quality of your holidays ? |
| 18 | On the contrary , with the exception of Yugoslavia , where the system of workers ' self-management did something to diffuse responsibility for decision making , there has been a tendency towards increasingly centralized and bureaucratic administration in economic and other spheres of social life . |
| 19 | However , to ask me to take responsibility for Scotland as well would be too much . |
| 20 | Secondly , the opening up of the sugar market was perfectly compatible with an amelioration policy designed to improve slaves ' conditions and prepare them to take responsibility for their future freedom . |
| 21 | If you have been nominated to respond to an SPR , this option enables you to accept responsibility for the SPR or to pass it on to another user . |