Example sentences of "[verb] take responsibility [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Active citizenship ’ , according to the Conservative view , should include taking responsibility in the community through activities such as serving as a school governor or a magistrate , running Neighbourhood Watch schemes , and doing voluntary work of various sorts . |
| 2 | Deputy unit manager Phil Brown , who has taken responsibility for the computer system , says : ‘ We can do the stocktake in about half a day with the Psion Organiser . |
| 3 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 4 | And the head — above all — needs to take responsibility for the whole programme . |
| 5 | ‘ I went to the surgery first , and they told me you 'd taken responsibility for the two of them . |
| 6 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 7 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 8 | The force facility can be used as often as required for a particular SPR , for example , if a user does not wish to take responsibility for the SPR or if a user accepts the SPR but at a later date passes the work onto someone else . |
| 9 | However , the best man or chief bridesmaid will have to take responsibility for the announcement , and the safekeeping of any gift . |
| 10 | The only way out would be to get the Lib Dems to take responsibility for the posters — which they refused to do , for fear of alienating Tory waverers . |
| 11 | ‘ The Belarussian government does not want to take responsibility for the results of market reforms . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Local authorities had a duty to assess those judged to be ‘ at risk ’ or ‘ vulnerable ’ and the state had to take responsibility for the supervision of care . |
| 14 | Zhelev organized on Sept. 1 and 11 meetings between Lukanov and leaders of the UDF and other opposition parties , but the UDF consistently rejected participation in a coalition on the grounds that the BSP alone had to take responsibility for the present state of the country , and that a strong parliamentary opposition was needed to guarantee Bulgaria 's democracy . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Adenauer was determined to take responsibility for the mistakes of the past and to this end he also agreed to settle pre-1945 German debts . |
| 16 | Ms Stacey said : ‘ It is a national pastime and the islanders have to take responsibility for the slaughter . |