Example sentences of "[verb] a responsibility [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Group of Seven has a responsibility to the human race to deal with that this summer . |
| 2 | I 'm an administrator by background , and I think that 's interesting , because one of the things that we are trying to do in the health service is to open up our management posts to people of all professions , and to recognise that management is not the prerogative of any particular group , but that we 're looking for the right people to manage our services from wherever they might come , and I 'm one of three people who has a responsibility to the senior manager in the community at the top , for the managing on a day-to-day basis the health services in Oxfordshire . |
| 3 | Every manager has a responsibility towards the organisation as a whole , and must define the activities of his own unit so as to contribute towards achieving the organisation 's objectives . |
| 4 | Every manager has a responsibility towards the organisation as a whole , and must define the activities of his own unit so as to contribute towards achieving the organisation 's objectives . |
| 5 | ‘ It most expressly includes a responsibility within the family circle . |
| 6 | The new section 25A laid a responsibility upon the court to consider whether financial obligations should be terminated and to make orders designed to enable the spouse to adjust without due hardship to the termination of financial dependence on the other spouse . |
| 7 | It does imply a responsibility to the community and appeals therefore to thinkers on the right of the political spectrum concerned about ‘ active citizenship ’ and personal responsibility , as well as to those on the centre and the left who see benefits in community solidarity . |
| 8 | A subordinate may have a responsibility for which he will be called to account by his superior ; a board of directors may have a responsibility to its shareholders ; and a government in a democracy will have a responsibility to the electorate . |
| 9 | As Leader of the House , does not he have a responsibility to the whole House ? |
| 10 | As a group develops , it slowly attains a responsibility towards the people who work for it . |
| 11 | They , at least , felt a responsibility towards the hand-picked support band themselves regardless of what label they hail under ( strangely enough — Factory ) . |
| 12 | From this it might have been possible to develop a philosophy in which humankind had a responsibility towards the other species with which we share the earth . |
| 13 | I then had a responsibility as the team leader to ensure that the rest of the house was secure and that none of the other units were having any problems . |
| 14 | Secondly , if the polytechnic in question had deteriorated in resource provision and management to the point suggested , this pointed to the lack of an early warning system through the Inspectorate , who had a responsibility for the monitoring of standards in non-university institutions . |
| 15 | The law , he said , ‘ should reinforce the principle that parents have a responsibility for the actions of their children . ’ |
| 16 | Nurse managers have a responsibility for the settings in which patients are cared for which is far greater than the same responsibility of nurses at large , simply because they are employed in positions which enable them to make appropriate representations . |
| 17 | Now I think it also is important that we recognize that as a university and as colleges we have a responsibility for the sort of environment , the education environment , that we provide our students , but I think we also have to remember that these students are eighteen years old when they come up , they are twenty one when they graduate , and many of the students are older than that , they are graduate students and they are young adults . |
| 18 | Nevertheless I feel that I have a responsibility to the public and to the world of art both to present your unpublished writings in as comprehensible a form as possible , and at the same time to correct some of the misleading impressions these might give , not of course about yourself , but about others , casually mentioned here and there in the course of your jottings . |
| 19 | Egg producers must recognise that they are competing in the sophisticated food industry of the late 1980s and that they have a responsibility to the consumer . |
| 20 | Like Bulmer ( 1982 ) , we believe that social researchers have a responsibility to the subjects of their research , but this is doubled in our case because of the additional obligation on us to protect their personal security in whatever small way , as researchers , we can . |
| 21 | And I have a responsibility to the Committee , you know , and they have to the Regional Board , even though you 're working in a section of the hospital that 's outside the NHS establishment , and not using Ministry money . |
| 22 | Private golf clubs have it within their power to ease the problem of the ‘ homeless ’ golfer , and should realise that they have a responsibility to the game of golf and not just to their members . |
| 23 | ‘ The number one player , and all players in fact , have a responsibility to the sport , the fans , the sponsors and the officials ’ , she insisted . |
| 24 | All who are constitutional politicians in Northern Ireland have a responsibility towards the political development process . |
| 25 | According to the current secretary of state , this principle still applies : ‘ Health authorities have a responsibility under the NHS Act 1977 to provide nursing care for those who can not or do not wish to pay for it . |