Example sentences of "over responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toton took over responsibility for all Railfreight Coal traction used in the Midlands , North West , Yorkshire and North East districts , comprising some 250 locomotives of Classes 20 , 56 and 58 . |
| 2 | Labour 's proposed Department for Legal Administration would take over responsibility for courts and tribunals ; court procedures ; organisation , training and appointment of the legal profession , magistracy and judiciary ; legal aid ; legal services ; and the Sentencing Council . |
| 3 | The faster US troops can turn over responsibility for keeping the peace to Panamanian forces , officials said , the better the US invasion would look to Latin Americans . |
| 4 | Taking over responsibility for Britain 's nuclear deterrent from the RAF would be attractive only if funds allocated for it were transferred from the Air vote ; or |
| 5 | As it was , however , the administration had taken over responsibility for this war ; and it had to work with what it had , making a just cause as best it could . |
| 6 | He will take over responsibility for broadcasting from the Home Office in addition to administering the new national lottery . |
| 7 | We believe the Department of Trade and Industry should take over responsibility for them . |
| 8 | Clearly , the sooner it is vested the better , as the fund will take over responsibility for maintenance on a regular basis . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , there is sometimes resistance among staff on inpatient units to admitting patients who may not be suffering from psychiatric illness , but who for a brief period of time need to hand over responsibility for their well-being to the inpatient clinical team . |
| 11 | The TEC have taken over responsibility for the service in keeping with their aim to encourage commitment to training . |
| 12 | Professor David Skilton , Head of English at the New University of Wales College of Cardiff , took over responsibility for our chapter on the teaching of English language and literature in the schools of Wales , and proved usefully at home with structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to literature . |
| 13 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
| 14 | ’ 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 . |
| 15 | Duncan , like all good pilots , liked to be present when others took over responsibility for his aircraft . |
| 16 | When the British Electricity Authority and its divisions took over responsibility for generation design in April 1948 , the engineers from the CEB , particularly Hacking , and Pask , his chief engineer , looked forward to strengthening the role of the centre in the design function , but that too could only have an impact in the longer run . |
| 17 | In the mid-1980s the French government did act to try to redress these trend , taking over responsibility for extra hospital services from the local departments . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ingres is now under the firm charge of ex-DEC European chief and now ASK Group president Pier Carlo Falotti , replacing Dennis McGinn who has taken over responsibility for developing strategic partners for the company . |
| 20 | The agency will take over responsibility for IBM promotions , exhibitions and sponsorship . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the meantime , Gain is to take over responsibility for Sybase 's object-oriented front-end development projects . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If agreement is reached , Reed will sell its interests to the other three parties , who will also take over responsibility for Reed 's guarantees . |
| 25 | This handed over responsibility for the poor law from the boards of guardians to the local authorities . |
| 26 | On appointment to office a new minister will take over responsibility for many departmental policies . |
| 27 | Wanting to protect him , she took charge of the conversation then , turning it to subjects that could have no personal connotations for him , subjects like the efficient way that the British government had persuaded the Americans to take over responsibility for Greece and its defence against Communism , which they could no longer afford , and their less effective attempts to involve the Americans in the Palestine troubles . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After the 1974 reorganisation , the new regional health authorities took over responsibility for all hospital and community health expenditure . |