Example sentences of "[verb] responsibility for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside .
2 A specific senior nurse should be given responsibility for updating the establishment profile as a result of planned developments in service which affect staffing requirements anywhere within the Health Authority .
3 The person given responsibility for solving the problem is known as a Problem Solver .
4 Eventually he is sent to a liberal English school where his emergence into adulthood converges with an increasing political awareness and realization that it is up to the individual to rake responsibility for altering the world around him .
5 The details of the transition were agreed by the Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee which has responsibility for overseeing the implementation of the Development Programme .
6 The Group Occupational Hygienist has responsibility for monitoring the environment and policing systems to comply with the policy objectives .
7 The answer to this question is of concern to government because it has responsibility for managing the economy in the interests of the community .
8 The Group Chief Engineer has responsibility for ensuring the design , construction , installation and maintenance of buildings , plant and machinery in accordance with environmental standards to comply with the Company 's environmental policy objectives .
9 He suggested that the peacetime Ministry of Labour should assume responsibility for co-ordinating the implementation of a full employment policy .
10 This facility will be used to record the progress of each problem and to assign responsibility for solving the problem .
11 As it is , it 's the family who takes responsibility for denying the baby existence , though permitting its death rather than allowing its life .
12 Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense .
13 In line with the recommended structure a Supervisory Board would be created , which would have responsibility for advising the Home Secretary on strategic and resource questions affecting the service .
14 There was no 1940 general election and by 1945 the voters remembered both that the Labour Party had shared responsibility for winning the war and that it had opposed the Conservative policies which led to the war .
15 The panel should also take responsibility for agreeing the remuneration of the assessors .
16 She will need much support and it is hoped that London teachers , who had first been suggested as overall organisers , will give her particularly strong backing and will take responsibility for running the Raffle .
17 The parents assumed responsibility for helping the plaintiff to eat her midday and evening meals .
18 In claiming responsibility for planting the bomb , the outlawed Red Hand Commando ( RHC ) group issued a threat to all hotels and pubs which host Irish folk music .
19 If the issuer is not incorporated in any of the member states where the securities are to be listed , the issuer must decide which of those member states is to have responsibility for approving the listing particulars ; it must then draw up the listing particulars in accordance with the laws of that member state .
20 The Notts & Derbyshire branch has taken responsibility for publishing the region 's CPD Newsletter .
21 The person applying must have taken responsibility for arranging the funeral .
22 The cross-curricular and cross-stage nature of health education make it necessary for someone within the school to take responsibility for co-ordinating the programme .
23 Reiner Gohlke , executive president of the Treuhandanstalt ( trustee agency ) which had responsibility for overseeing the restructuring of the state-owned businesses in East Germany , resigned on Aug. 20 because of policy disagreements with other members of the governing board [ see p. 37536 for his appointment where his post is wrongly given as chair ] .
24 The Central Electoral Bureau , which included opposition representatives , had responsibility for ensuring the fairness of the vote at the 13,000 polling stations around the country and for scrutinising the ballots and adjudicating disputes .
25 Ideally , we should like the government to ensure that the economy is on the Pareto-efficient frontier , shown in Figure 15–2 , but take responsibility for making the value judgement about which point on this frontier the economy should attain .
26 Clearly devolving responsibility for delivering the service locally by pushing such responsibility as far down the hierarchy to the point of delivery as is reasonably possible , and by ensuring that the local manager is placed in a hierarchy of managers , all with closely defined job descriptions from top to bottom of the organization
27 Governors have responsibility for agreeing the school 's budget plans .
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