Example sentences of "[verb] responsibility for [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " game " is one in which the people on the outside are given responsibility for those on the inside , crossing the circle with their eyes closed . |
| 2 | The Treasury has responsibility for the health of the economy ; the Social Services Department has responsibility for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country . |
| 3 | Joining Mr Knight is as technical manager for marine and protective coatings. , who also worked at the Hamburg office , has responsibility for some of the major marine accounts . |
| 4 | Boise , Idaho-based Morris Knudsen Corp says it has received a contract from IBM Corp to assume responsibility for much of the distribution function at the distribution centre in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania ; IBM Mechanicsburg is the central distribution centre for all parts that IBM uses in maintenance . |
| 5 | For example , as far back as 1923 a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence had looked into the distribution of doctors , dentists and hospital services in a future war ( in effect , tasks that were taken up by the Emergency Medical Service in 1938 ) , and air raid precautions had been discussed within Whitehall since 1924 by the Air Raid Precautions Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence ( which relinquished responsibility for this to the Home Office in 1935 ) |
| 6 | Nagel refers to Adam Smith whom he takes to be advocating , as a matter of reason , the restriction of moral judgment only to that which the agent has done in a narrow sense because to attribute responsibility for that beyond the agent 's control seems irrational and is akin to strict liability . |
| 7 | On both occasions his injuries led to enforced absences during which Pateman generously assumed responsibility for much of the District 's administrative work . |
| 8 | Another part of the proposals which worries me is the Scottish Office taking responsibility for more of the main roads . |
| 9 | In practice this rarely seems to work and the school needs to take responsibility for much of the incidental training . |
| 10 | The opposition United National Democratic Party denied responsibility for any of the attacks . |