Example sentences of "take responsibility for " in BNC.

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1 Many bands now take responsibility for advertising their gigs , and these posters encourage these self-help initiatives .
2 The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine .
3 Take responsibility for the thoughts and emotions you send out , for they go into the universe and create the events and circumstances that come back to you .
4 ( All too often , we take responsibility for failure , but not for success .
5 An interesting development advocated by the authors is that of moving towards a multidisciplinary approach , whereby other health-care professionals take responsibility for specific problems but all carers have access to the objectives involved .
6 If your company wo n't pay for it , take responsibility for your own learning .
7 to help mother persevere with feeding Darren , increase his calorie intake , and take responsibility for his weight gain
8 Listening and writing predominate as the major pupil activities , there being little opportunity for pupils to contribute to , or take responsibility for , their own learning , to develop self-confidence , independence and similar personal qualities .
9 We have all been children , some of us are parents , and we all in various ways take responsibility for children .
10 Fireworks is chartered to co-ordinate varied but related businesses to ensure early marketing of leading-edge multimedia systems ; create joint ventures and alliances with other firms ; put up initial funding for promising , pioneering multimedia services under development by entrepreneurs outside IBM ; and take responsibility for IBM 's worldwide multimedia marketing strategy and co-ordinate it across lines of business .
11 Equally , group affiliation provides a source of mutual support for companies in financial trouble when group banks take responsibility for coordinating rescue packages .
12 Assertive people respect themselves and other people and take responsibility for their actions and choices .
13 He has both management ( M ) and educational ( E ) tasks including the following : M — identify members of the group M organize regular meetings M — consult with the group to draw up timetable M — organize observations in classroom E — collate the observations E — consult with group in drawing inferences from observation data E — take responsibility for decision on final changes M — liaise with publishers E — organize and possibly write documentation of new material M — organize editing and rewriting of material E — assume major role in the retrospective evaluation of the unit .
14 They also take responsibility for the success of the overall operation . ’
15 Such organization naturally involves centralization and differentiation of leadership and authority ; so that those who take responsibility for coordinating the actions of many others must have a different status in important respects from those who are essentially in the role of carrying out specifications laid down by others ’ .
16 From April 1993 social services and social work departments take responsibility for managing community care .
17 ‘ Do n't worry , I take responsibility for it , ’ she told them .
18 ( 3 ) New editors and new referees should take into account , and take responsibility for , the views and decisions of their predecessors .
19 Higher education , though , is a matter of getting students launched on a process of self development , in which they take responsibility for enlarging and deepening their own consciousness .
20 Take responsibility for your life , and happiness , health and well-being will be yours .
21 In the former role they take responsibility for the design , teaching and assessment of individual modules ( see Chapter 5 ) .
22 Personal competence — employees are highly ‘ mature ’ , i.e. they are high achievers who take responsibility for results .
23 This move away from the traditional specialisation which was a feature of local government , has meant that generic workers need to develop financial skills and take responsibility for budgets .
24 Ideally , we should like the government to ensure that the economy is on the Pareto-efficient frontier , shown in Figure 15–2 , but take responsibility for making the value judgement about which point on this frontier the economy should attain .
25 Working-class children are expected to be independent , travel on the packed buses , take responsibility for siblings , do washing , help sell or ‘ higgle ’ in the market and work on the land .
26 Those companies propose to reduce the hours of the already not well paid workers to below the level where those companies have to pay national insurance and take responsibility for pension payments , sick pay and holiday pay — all the things that we used quaintly to associate with civilisation .
27 The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall .
28 Personal and social development is most likely to occur when students take responsibility for their own learning and seek consciously to develop PSD competences through practice and reflection on their own experience .
29 ‘ I hereby take responsibility for the objects described overleaf ’ is the forbidding form .
30 ‘ One of the first rules an executive in your salary grade has to accept , ’ he sliced her off , ‘ is that when the flak starts flying you take responsibility for what comes out of your office whether your signature 's on the work or not ! ’
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