Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites . |
| 2 | In the Cabinet changes carried out in August [ see p. 39067 ] Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis took on responsibility for the Aegean and Andreas Andrianopoulos ( hitherto Minister of Industry and Commerce ) became Minister of State , alternating as Government Spokesman with Vassilis Magginas . |
| 3 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
| 4 | Hilda Sturge took on responsibility for the adult refugees , while the Committee , with Greta acting as honorary secretary , looked after the children . |
| 5 | Although retiring from office this year , warden Frank Wood will be carrying on responsibility for the general overseeing of the buildings and the Church Centre . |
| 6 | Badger road mortalities , however , are reduced now as badgers have put on weight for the winter and venture out from their setts less and less . |
| 7 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 8 | The only down side for the solicitor is that you have to give a free half-hour interview to anyone coming to see you under the scheme , though most firms of solicitors nowadays will give this service in any event . |
| 9 | Nobody 's interested in laying down wine for the future , when they 're dead : instead they 're all drinking up what 's been in the cellar for decades . |
| 10 | Please send in copy for the summer issue of FYT News as soon as possible . |
| 11 | It is against that background that the DES approach to the CNAA to take over responsibility for the DMS has to be seen . |
| 12 | Over the years many leading members of the BDA were involved in the running of the Board before it wound up following the emergence of Social Services Departments , which took over responsibility for the welfare of the deaf . |
| 13 | The TEC have taken over responsibility for the service in keeping with their aim to encourage commitment to training . |
| 14 | The specifications will be submitted to X/Open Co Ltd for inclusion in the Portability Guide and the standards body will also take over responsibility for the publishing , trademarking and branding of Motif specifications . |
| 15 | ’ The provision of the men who were eventually to take over responsibility for the management of an enterprise was regarded as a matter of making sure that enough young men entered business at the foot of the ladder , ’ wrote Falk of the old days . |
| 16 | The death of the AHA was not the last word of its members , since the caucus moved across to a position within the new Victoria District Authority , which took over responsibility for the management of the AHA 's asylums . |
| 17 | Bill Robertson took over responsibility for the West of Scotland area from Bob Doran . |
| 18 | Having refurbished two bits of year-old evidence to support the new Libyan thesis , he now weighed in with a two-year-old intelligence report about a meeting in Tripoli before the bombing — in mid-November 1988 — at which the Libyans were said to have taken over responsibility for the attack from the PFLP — GC after Jibril 's West German cell was broken up . |
| 19 | Joyce Edwards , Quality Circle facilitator at Wedgwood Barlaston , pictured at the presentation , said : ‘ The most important aspect of the project was that the pupils themselves have taken over responsibility for the school and its property . ’ |
| 20 | The Conservative government ultimately appointed a Housing Commissioner to take over responsibility for the housing function but in 1974 the local authority ceased to exist as a result of local government reorganization . |
| 21 | Organised by WACC 's Pacific region and hosted by the Divine Word Institute , the workshop aims to equip local publishers to take over responsibility for the layout and design of their own publications . |
| 22 | She had never so much resented having been made to take over responsibility for the dog from old Adam , who had been used to walk him , than on that day . |
| 23 | In 1948 , the Bucks Water Board took over responsibility for the supply and water for the Urban District was obtained from Foxcote reservoir and the Thames Valley Water Table . |
| 24 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 25 | The outrageous philandering May Sharples , Ethel and Mabel Helliwell who both eventually took over choreography for the troupes , the four successful Holt sisters , the formidable Jessie Wharton , Head Girl of the first Palace Girls and later inseparable companion to Mrs Tiller , and the most important dancer of all to John , Mary Read . |
| 26 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 27 | The Inland Revenue say that carrying on business for the purposes of this section continues until all the debts of the business incurred in the course of trade have been paid , and that includes the liability for tax . |
| 28 | Lord Owen and his new UN colleague , Thorvald Stoltenberg , Norway 's former foreign minister , have not given up hope for the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 29 | As time was short we walked briskly for 4 hours , before deciding that we would have to set up camp for the night . |
| 30 | One childless career woman described the scene when she discussed having a child and giving up work for a while . |