Example sentences of "assume [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new company assumes responsibility for the profitable development of these sites and any future surplus land . |
| 2 | In 1963 he called together a representative meeting to discuss plans to move forward from the Curriculum Steering Group and create a new and ( of course ) co-operative body which would assume responsibility for the national examination system , for giving advice on the school curriculum , and for relating the two . |
| 3 | A Vietnam national army would be rapidly created to assume responsibility for the internal situation and as this progressed French forces would withdraw to border areas or where unnecessary depart . |
| 4 | Following the report in early 1990 by accountants Coopers and Lybrand into the activities of offshore financial businesses in the UK 's Caribbean dependent territories , it was agreed in talks in May between UK government officials and the Chief Minister , Emile Gumbs , that Anguilla 's Constitution would be amended ( by Order in Council within the next few months ) to allow the Governor to assume responsibility for the offshore financial sector . |
| 5 | The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules . |
| 6 | Those who , as the Lugbara elder does , assume responsibility for the cruellest and unkindest strokes of fortune may provoke a dangerous backlash — which is exactly what happens . |
| 7 | Like the head , he saw the lack of a librarian as a serious deficiency and gave priority to the securing of someone to " manage " the library ( and assume responsibility for the part-time assistant ) . |
| 8 | Lenin was involved in motivating revolutionary action by , in part , a critique of bureaucracy but later assumed responsibility for the economic development of a backward country that needed experts in positions of authority . |