Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] responsibility [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 At the same time , he was engaged in disliking his own state of intellect at the moment , which appeared to own no responsibility for the production of that sentence and buzzed around small problems without much resource or repose .
2 The hospitality of the religious houses had become the responsibility of the gentry .
3 As head of CI5 , Cowley had assumed the responsibility for the protection of the Colonel , a guest in the country .
4 NATO had proposed to create a new " rapid reaction force " in Europe , which it wanted to bear the responsibility for the front-line defence of the region , as the USA 's own troop presence in Western Europe was wound down [ see p. 38216 ] .
5 By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister .
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