Example sentences of "become responsible for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the future , admission to nursing or residential care will be conditional on assessment , and with local authorities becoming responsible for the costs of residents requiring public support , such admissions will come under critical financial scrutiny . |
| 2 | On Nov. 6 , he took on the post of Prime Minister , thus becoming responsible for the Interior , Defence , and Russian KGB . |
| 3 | People are becoming responsible for their own happiness and health , and for what 's happening to the planet . ’ |
| 4 | Local authority social services departments will become responsible for assessing and arranging packages of care for people who need help . |
| 5 | Basil 's widowed father , a natural son of the Earl of Sandwich , formed part of Wordsworth 's circle of London friends , and the proposal that Wordsworth and Dorothy should become responsible for the child was from the beginning an important part of their plans for life at Racedown . |
| 6 | Auditors are not directly concerned with the solution of problems ; if they were ; they would become responsible for those solutions and thereby lose their objectivity and status to provide an independent examination and appraisal of a service . |
| 7 | Under the council tax , that hierarchy will be extended to two tenants , who , if they are at the same level in that hierarchy , could become responsible for each other 's council tax jointly and severally . |
| 8 | The Board could become responsible for collecting and analysing such information and for drafting recommendations . |
| 9 | By instructing us you will become responsible for the payment of the costs and disbursements involved in pursuing your claim . |
| 10 | He will now become responsible for the development of financial strategy and control throughout the Northumbrian group . |
| 11 | You see when the erm legislation changes shortly , well the legislation is there but when it 's enacted erm they they will become responsible for repairing after their own hole digging and they have to provide us with guarantees . |
| 12 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 13 | 5 UDR in Whose district the incident took place , immediately became responsible for cordoning the area in order to create a safe space within Which the specialists from the Royal Army Ordnance Corps , Royal Engineers and Royal Ulster Constabulary could work , examining and collecting forensic evidence , as well as ensuring that the remainder of the line was clear of any further devices . |
| 14 | Significantly , he also became responsible for the development of the Board 's Chapter III provision in rural areas . |
| 15 | The District became responsible for Terminal and Short courses extending over six to twelve meetings as well as a variety of informal , pioneering courses and discussion groups of fewer than six meetings ; the last category attracting grant-aid for the first time . |
| 16 | Telford , though not sacked , disappeared from the project and Benjamin Bevan , one of the Grand Junction 's own engineers , at first nominally in tandem with Telford , became responsible for the later development . |
| 17 | His natural ability with figures soon earned him promotion to a trusted position , where he became responsible for most of the financial undertakings of the firm . |
| 18 | After taking over the Tramways Department following the sudden death of Lancaster , Charles Furness became responsible for several innovations . |
| 19 | The durations prescribed by the Royal College when it became responsible for the curriculum and examination have steadily increased . |
| 20 | Searelle invited artistes to contact him by first writing to John , who thus became responsible for their standards . |
| 21 | He became responsible for all of the Bruce family interests , including their right to the throne , and was appointed a Guardian of Scotland in the absence of his young uncle , David II . |
| 22 | The U.S. Consul became responsible for our wellbeing but it was fourteen days or more before my parents got word of my survival after being reported missing on 21 May . ’ |
| 23 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 24 | No less important , once the electric power could be turned down , the State became responsible for supporting all workers and their dependents for the duration of the strike . |
| 25 | Since the DVLC at Swansea became responsible for driving licences the use of the negative averment for driving licences has ended but could still be used for certificates of insurance and test certificates etc . |
| 26 | Thereafter , the Lord Chancellor became responsible for the Council on Tribunals , appointing its chairman and members , staffing it , and sticking up for it when it needed help against recalcitrant departments . |
| 27 | France 's leader , General de Gaulle , had his own aims in Germany however and ironically France , rather than Russia , became responsible for the early failure of the joint Allied administration . |
| 28 | Counties and county boroughs became responsible for child care under the 1948 Children Act . |
| 29 | In 1974 further functions were taken away : 10 regional water authorities became responsible for water supply and sewerage . |
| 30 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |