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

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1 The Sudanese government also sought to maintain sole responsibility for the transport and distribution of aid .
2 The person named in the order will have parental responsibility for the child while the order is in force .
3 If a person seeking party status has parental responsibility for the child but has not been named as a respondent , the court must grant his request .
4 In this context " the responsible person " means any person who has parental responsibility for the child and any other person with whom the child is living .
5 " Family " in this context includes any person who has parental responsibility for the child or with whom he is living ( s17(10) ) .
6 In any case the resolution of the party conference of 1943 gave Hugh Dalton , who was on the side of the ‘ anti-Germans ’ , and was chairman of the party 's International Committee , the opportunity to draft a statement on the ‘ International Post-war Settlement ’ emphasising German responsibility for the war and the need for her to pay reparations to the Allies .
7 Not infrequently he wished his penis did n't have to take the entire responsibility for the success or failure of the operation .
8 Peterson , who lost his own seat , accepted responsibility for the defeat and immediately resigned as provincial Liberal leader .
9 A feature of the NHS since its inception has been a combination of central responsibility for the Service and authorities responsible for local decision-making .
10 There 's the absence of serious consideration , beyond a handful of wary churchmen , of who bears moral responsibility for the creation that is Saddam Hussein .
11 As recommended by Beeching , the Lord Chancellor assumed overall responsibility for the construction and administration of all courts above the level of the Magistrates ' courts .
12 A new minister with an overall responsibility for the health and personal social services within the Department of Health and Social Security , or for education , or for housing policy ( together with local government in general ) within the Department of the Environment will find an ‘ established ’ relationship between the department and local government or the health service with certain key characteristics .
13 It is with this in mind that Mr Chris Clark , Executive Director , Materials Technology Division , has assumed overall responsibility for the implementation and monitoring of our corporate environmental and health and safety policies .
14 María Teresa Aguirre , project assistant for Latin America/Caribbean , has assumed additional responsibilities for the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa .
15 In the event Libyan pragmatism prevailed and neither defence nor prosecution raised the constitutional issue ; for it was unexpectedly discovered that the Jordanian 's deputy had signed an acceptance of legal responsibility for the canteen while his superior was on holiday .
16 For the time being you will retain hands-on responsibility for the operation but afford us any assistance we require .
17 He said in a letter to MPs : ‘ Maxwell pensioners will be asking Parliament to bring this gnawing uncertainty to an end by calling on the Government to shoulder its responsibilities by guaranteeing their pensions and assuming full responsibility for the pursuit and recovery of all stolen assets . ’
18 The project manager has full responsibility for the project and is given necessary resources for planning and implementation .
19 In their final communiqué issued on Aug. 9 , Foreign Ministers " expressed sorrow over the ordeal to which the Iraqi people are being subjected " but charged the Iraqi regime with " full responsibility for the human and material losses " incurred by its invasion of Kuwait , and stressed that Iraq 's " non-commitment to implementation " of all UN resolutions " necessitat[ed] the continuation of sanctions " .
20 They will know , too , that the ultimate responsibility for the success or failure of the business is theirs .
21 Although Robert Teeter remained as the nominal head of the Bush campaign , it was generally acknowledged that Baker would use his new post to exercise overall and ultimate responsibility for the campaign and attempt to provide it with a greater degree of coherence .
22 We invited David Fell , Permanent Secretary of the DED , who has ultimate responsibility for the IDB and LEDU , and Julian Crozier , Chief Executive of the Training and Employment Agency , to attend .
23 UP leaders immediately demanded the resignation of the Interior Minister Carlos Lemos Simmons , accusing him of ultimate responsibility for the crime and claiming that he had encouraged right-wing death squads to murder UP leaders .
24 By order of Master Miller dated 2 November 1990 the following point of law was ordered to be tried as a preliminary point before the trial of the action , namely whether the council could maintain an action for libel for any words which reflected upon the council as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , including its statutory responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund , and whether , if not , the statement of claim disclosed a cause of action .
25 ‘ whether the plaintiff … can maintain an action for libel for any words which reflects [ sic ] upon the said plaintiff as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , including its statutory responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund …
26 I would allow this appeal and in answer to the first question raised by the preliminary point of law declare that the council can not maintain an action for libel for any words which reflect upon it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , including its statutory responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund .
27 The aim of such a meeting would not be to see whether any staff members have particular responsibility for the event but to try to develop a shared understanding of why it occurred .
28 A HUMBLE £28-a-day flagman bears the main responsibility for the shambles that should have been this year 's Aintree Grand National , according to the official inquiry into ‘ The race that never was . ’
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