Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] responsibility for " in BNC.

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1 British Rail has already accepted responsibility for the matter , as the Secretary of State has pointed out .
2 Mr Rutskoi has already had responsibility for agriculture taken away , along with his official Mercedes and doctor .
3 The group has also claimed responsibility for a string of murders of journalists and other civic leaders opposed to the cartels and in favour of Mr Barco 's decree authorising the drug traffickers ' extradition to the US .
4 As the responsibility of the Department of Employment , TVEI represents a determined government effort , practically by-passing the government department that has traditionally exercised responsibility for the schools and the school curriculum , to effect a swift and decisive orientation of the curriculum towards what is considered to be of immediate relevance to the skills and know-how required by a technological society .
5 This option must be used when an SPR has been passed on 6 times using option 3.4.0 — Accept/Reject SPR and no-one has yet taken responsibility for it .
6 Newton is head of A&R and joint MD at Circa Records , which has recently assumed responsibility for all of Virgin 's subsidiary labels .
7 The Principal in charge of the section from which the investigating team leader is drawn then accepts responsibility for the entire investigation .
8 The Soldiers for Justice group had already claimed responsibility for the murder in March 1989 of the head of the Moslem community in Belgium [ see p. 36538 ] , and for the 1988 kidnapping in Lebanon of a Belgian doctor , Jan Cools , who was freed on June 15 , 1989 [ see pp. 36365 ; 37164 ] .
9 She said the Iranian government had always disclaimed responsibility for Khordad 15 , said to be a religious charity .
10 Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories .
11 First , ever since the war governments had willingly taken responsibility for the management of the national economy and by the late 1960s it was clear that this ‘ management ’ was becoming much less successful : inflation and unemployment were emerging as serious problems and the balance of payments position , upon which Wilson laid such stress , was increasingly precarious .
12 Accordingly , the court had now assumed responsibility for the welfare of the girl and the Official Solicitor had become her legal guardian .
13 However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack .
14 He had publicly claimed responsibility for the theft of arms and ammunition from the South African Air Force headquarters in April and for bomb attacks on offices of the National Party .
15 The top echelons of the civil service have generally abjured responsibility for policy decisions .
16 Although they have always had responsibility for trainees , this is to be made more formal within the framework of the basic training common core .
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