Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] responsibility [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Supreme Soviet voted to cede responsibility for the budget to the government . |
| 2 | Although no one had claimed responsibility for the attack by last night , it was apparently being treated as a terrorist incident by the Belgian police . |
| 3 | The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops , policemen and government officials since 1984 . |
| 4 | The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the previously unknown Islamic Revenge Organization ( IRO ) had claimed responsibility for the killing in Ankara on March 7 of Ehud Saha , the security chief at the Israeli embassy there . |
| 5 | The corporation had assumed responsibility for the site in 1945 and had purchased the land in 1957 , although technically it was in the rural district area . |
| 6 | Fields privately resented the way in which Branson had taken responsibility for the purchase of the first Virgin aircraft ; while Branson , for his part , grew increasingly alarmed at the way in which his new partner appeared to be running the rest of the company . |
| 7 | Local authorities had a duty to assess those judged to be ‘ at risk ’ or ‘ vulnerable ’ and the state had to take responsibility for the supervision of care . |
| 8 | It was as if a genius creator , after six days ' labour , had become uninterested in his achievement and had delegated responsibility for the rule and administration of his work to a band of bureaucrats — a tireless bunch of imbeciles , lacking compassion , who justified their role in the scheme of things by ceaselessly inventing trials for man , to keep him on his toes . |
| 9 | But while pleased , Mr Elton was scathing about Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley 's response to the Ombudsman 's report to which the Government refused to accept responsibility for the affair . |