Example sentences of "take responsibility for " in BNC.

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1 No one would take responsibility for off-loading it , and Captain Pintar and his Yugoslav crew would not fly with it .
2 On 21 September Prime Minister Clement Attlee informed Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin , then in New York , that he favoured a declaration from the United Nations that it would take responsibility for the rehabilitation of the whole country .
3 Every effort is made to ensure prices are accurate and goods available , but best can not take responsibility for either .
4 The power of a woman 's sexuality is very strong and the orthodox woman must take responsibility for that .
5 You are only fifteen , and if your parents will not take responsibility for you , and you will not tell us what you are up at night , the only alternative is for you to go into care .
6 Yet although culpable for serving him , Jax can not take responsibility for the three further moral crossroads through which the boy drove against the red lights — namely the decision to get drunk ; the decision to drive in that state ; and the decision to drive recklessly .
7 The argument is that you only have one life , that you are the most important person in the world and that if you do n't take responsibility for your own development , who else will ?
8 You may take responsibility for your own medication or ask the staff to manage it .
9 Even when our bodies give us very clear signals that something is wrong , we will hardly ever take responsibility for any problems that we may incur .
10 The Western World has the economic control over demand and should therefore take responsibility for endangered species .
11 Every effort is made to ensure prices are accurate and goods available , but best can not take responsibility for either .
12 He will take responsibility for the five courses …
13 If we hurt someone , we must take responsibility for it .
14 This meant that , even with daily case conferences , it was not possible for one nurse either to supervise or take responsibility for the individualised care of each client .
15 Beiersdorf will take responsibility for research and brand development , production and marketing everywhere except Australia and South Africa .
16 It is understood , in Piaroa thought , that women have control over their own biological processes and must take responsibility for them .
17 He will be joined by Michael Robinson , a chartered accountant , who will take responsibility for finances in Worthing , Shoreham , Storingham and Littlehampton .
18 Do you take responsibility for the day-to-day running of it ?
19 Do you take responsibility for them as an active dad ?
20 But an integrated set of policies of this nature is impossible in a period of political paralysis , because ( a ) nobody will take the initiative to devise it , and ( b ) nobody will take responsibility for implementing it .
21 In so doing , they enable women to organise against their own victimisation and create the conditions in which men themselves may take responsibility for the reform of masculinity .
22 Typically , the timetable will be suspended for a week or more and pupils will take responsibility for their own Mini-Enterprise , which may be based on producing goods for sale or providing services .
23 The Agency is to be established within the Department of Social Security and will take responsibility for all aspects of child support , leaving spouse support , property settlements and issues of custody and access within the jurisdiction of the courts .
24 They should take responsibility for designing shifts and accept that shifts should be changed rather than discarded if they do not work .
25 He suggests I should take responsibility for the actions of abusing men — that I should feel the guilt they obviously do not .
26 The pack says social workers should take responsibility for ensuring the forms are completed but they can be filled in by the person the child is living with .
27 A post-imprisonment supervision was to be introduced for those serving more than one year , and wider powers given to the courts to make parents take responsibility for their children 's offences .
28 And that is the significance of James Baker 's speech announcing that the United States would take responsibility for rebuilding Iraq and Kuwait .
29 You could n't take responsibility for living bodies , blood that can flow , nerves that can actually feel .
30 All teachers are or should take responsibility for guidance work .
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