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

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1 Ten to 17-year-olds are taught to take responsibility for themselves , to understand the effects of their crime on the local community and to compensate their victim .
2 Previously , after six weeks the students would teach one ( heavily prepared ) lesson ; now , in theory , at least , they could be expected to take responsibility for a class for six or seven weeks .
3 As well as formal training provision , you will be encouraged to take responsibility for your own development and identify what you need to carry out your work efficiently .
4 You 're on your own until I 'm forced to take responsibility for you again .
5 At all times they are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning .
6 According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia .
7 I look at her in surprise and she shrugs gracelessly , as if she were refusing to take responsibility for her indolence rather than her zeal .
8 Other teachers involved in the intake year were invited to take responsibility for preparing materials for some areas of the new curriculum .
9 All I 'm concerned with is handin' her over to her rightful parent or whoever 's goin' to take responsibility for her . ’
10 It 's what everyone has to do at some time — it 's called taking responsibility for yourself .
11 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 .
12 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 .
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