Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] responsibility for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper , designed to provoke discussion , considers the usefulness of civil liability as a means of allocating responsibility for the costs of remedying environmental damage and of preventing future damage . |
| 2 | I met 15 women , all of whom said they wanted to learn machine knitting , but most of whom were afraid of taking responsibility for the machine . |
| 3 | In the arrangement in my act , the song floats on top of a piano sonata : it 's the Brechtian thing of throwing responsibility for the sentiment to your audience . ’ |
| 4 | According to sources in Washington , officials in the Department of Commerce decided at the end of last year to recommend this strategy to the president as the most effective way of relinquishing responsibility for the US 's Landsat system . |
| 5 | He seems to have decided long before assuming responsibility for the government of Northern Nigeria that in general some form of indirect administration was ‘ in accordance with the spirit of British colonial rule ’ , which was benevolent and not ‘ arbitrary and despotic ’ . |
| 6 | The Nov. 21 agreement confirmed the Oct. 28 memorandum , committing the republics to agree on allocating responsibility for the debt . |
| 7 | As a kind of amalgam of a Ministry of Justice ( dealing with the rights of the individual ) and a Department of the Interior ( responsible for internal order and the integrity of the state ) , it would hardly be surprising for the Home Office to show symptoms of schizophrenia ; it controls immigration , prisons , and drug abuse , for example , in addition to carrying responsibility for the Metropolitan Police and the Special Branch , and all these activities depend heavily on collecting and using personal information . |