Example sentences of "itself responsible for " in BNC.

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1 No one seriously believed that the Institution , having spawned the policy , would make itself responsible for its implementation , but all hoped that a watching brief would be maintained ; this has been the case , but with a complication : no financial provision .
2 The conspiracy theory of racism makes sense of a particular social reality : it is because the police force , which is supposed to uphold justice and protect ethnic minorities from racist attacks , is itself responsible for so much of the violence and injustice suffered by black communities that it is experienced as being part of the same oppressive system as the gang of white unemployed youth who are beating up people on the street .
3 Almost immediately after 5 Corps entered southern Austria , it found itself responsible for hundreds of thousands of surrendered enemy personnel , camp followers and civilian refugees , of many different nationalities .
4 The Department of Health and Social Security is itself responsible for the delivery of social security benefits , and maintains its own regional structure and a system of local offices for this purpose .
5 In France State-owned arms factories were set up at Maubeuge and Charleville in 1718 ; the government made itself responsible for the supply of uniforms in 1747 ; and the old system of military hospitals , which had left them largely in private hands , was abolished in 1788 .
6 Another possible explanagion of the association between the PGC RFLP and gastric ulcer disease is that the PGC gene is not itself responsible for the predisposition but one of the responsible genes is closely linked to it .
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