Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] responsibility [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the question of autonomy was a complex and confusing one , Hornby contributed to the process of keeping seriously on the agenda that part of the CNAA 's role which involved delegating responsibility within the limits currently imposed on the CNAA , and expanding those limits as it became possible . |
| 2 | ‘ I went to the surgery first , and they told me you 'd taken responsibility for the two of them . |
| 3 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 4 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 5 | He decided to shift responsibility for the Dutch Indies onto other shoulders , judging that anyway it was , in language he was accustomed to , a ‘ can of worms ’ . |
| 6 | The Supreme Soviet voted to cede responsibility for the budget to the government . |
| 7 | It was the first time the FIS had claimed responsibility for a violent incident . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | No group had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings but a statement issued by the Palestinian Revolutionary Factions ( PRF , a group believed to have links with the radical Fatah Revolutionary Council or " Fatah rebels " ) on Aug. 7 claimed that Christen and Erriquez would be released within 24 hours . |
| 10 | The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops , policemen and government officials since 1984 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Both groups had claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on Antonio Rios , former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela ( CTV ) and a leading member of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , who had recently resigned from his post to face trial on charges of influence peddling . |
| 13 | From 1927 in Cambridgeshire , the Board , with the assistance of a three-year Cassell Fund grant , had assumed responsibility for the RCC 's own programme of village lectures and short courses for which the latter received grant-aid from the LEA . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Zhelev organized on Sept. 1 and 11 meetings between Lukanov and leaders of the UDF and other opposition parties , but the UDF consistently rejected participation in a coalition on the grounds that the BSP alone had to take responsibility for the present state of the country , and that a strong parliamentary opposition was needed to guarantee Bulgaria 's democracy . |
| 18 | The PKK had denied responsibility for a bomb which caused one death in Istanbul on Jan. 25 , claiming that it was carried out as a provocative act by a " counter-guerrilla " force . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Such an addition could well be implied into the contract by the court anyway , in instances where the seller refused to recognise responsibility for a defect even though he was clearly responsible , so that the refusal amounted to clear unreasonableness or even bad faith . |