Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
| 2 | The move reflects a change in the approach to research in Courtaulds , as Group businesses take on responsibility for their own R & T effort , reducing the need for an independent service . |
| 3 | After the 1974 reorganisation , the new regional health authorities took over responsibility for all hospital and community health expenditure . |
| 4 | When the British Electricity Authority and its divisions took over responsibility for generation design in April 1948 , the engineers from the CEB , particularly Hacking , and Pask , his chief engineer , looked forward to strengthening the role of the centre in the design function , but that too could only have an impact in the longer run . |
| 5 | Social services departments take over responsibility for private care next week . |
| 6 | Wanting to protect him , she took charge of the conversation then , turning it to subjects that could have no personal connotations for him , subjects like the efficient way that the British government had persuaded the Americans to take over responsibility for Greece and its defence against Communism , which they could no longer afford , and their less effective attempts to involve the Americans in the Palestine troubles . |
| 7 | Organised by WACC 's Pacific region and hosted by the Divine Word Institute , the workshop aims to equip local publishers to take over responsibility for the layout and design of their own publications . |
| 8 | Duncan , like all good pilots , liked to be present when others took over responsibility for his aircraft . |