Example sentences of "[adj] for [verb] their [det] " in BNC.

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1 In line with the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act , colleges will now be responsible for managing their own budgets and the Government will hold the purse strings , funding them directly through a national FE Funding Council.Once considered the Cinderella of education , further education is now being promoted as the fairy godmother with the ability to improve post-16 education and training , stem the drop-out and failure rates and make Britain economically competitive once more .
2 As a general rule , residents should be considered responsible for taking their own medicines , but some may be administered by care assistants under the supervision of senior staff .
3 The view of pedagogy proposed here , then , makes teachers responsible for defining their own problems and providing their own solutions .
4 During the day users are responsible for inputting their own data , while at night this machine runs commercial batch work .
5 They are normally responsible for purchasing their own uniform and music , and often their own instrument too .
6 And he does not believe the Government 's proposals to make gipsies responsible for finding their own sites will work either .
7 There are 15 contractors appointed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) each responsible for selling their own air time as prime time or other time .
8 While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " .
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