Example sentences of "[vb pp] responsibility [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.

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1 At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel .
2 Specifically , governors should be given responsibility for defining the broad aims of the school ; they in turn should invite the head and staff to devise means of pursuing them , and should themselves monitor the school 's progress towards them .
3 The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside .
4 In 1919 he was also given responsibility for founding the new signals intelligence ( sigint ) agency , the Government Code and Cipher School ( GC and CS ) .
5 A specific senior nurse should be given responsibility for updating the establishment profile as a result of planned developments in service which affect staffing requirements anywhere within the Health Authority .
6 The person given responsibility for solving the problem is known as a Problem Solver .
7 The signatories of the Charter have accepted responsibility for maintaining the good code of practice and also agree to disseminate the document through their organisations , encouraging their managers to actively participate .
8 There was no 1940 general election and by 1945 the voters remembered both that the Labour Party had shared responsibility for winning the war and that it had opposed the Conservative policies which led to the war .
9 The parents assumed responsibility for helping the plaintiff to eat her midday and evening meals .
10 A large number of problems has been encountered , one of the most surprising being the fact that no UK Government department had taken responsibility for enforcing the EEC controls on the sale of protected wildlife specimens .
11 The Notts & Derbyshire branch has taken responsibility for publishing the region 's CPD Newsletter .
12 In addition , one partner had taken responsibility for overseeing the whole process .
13 The person applying must have taken responsibility for arranging the funeral .
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