Example sentences of "assume responsibility for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a principal , he assumes responsibility for the performance of the entire transportation contract . |
| 2 | His eldest brother was the distinguished mathematician and geologist John Playfair [ q.v. ] , and after their father 's death in 1772 he assumed responsibility for the upbringing of the family and , it appears , for launching James on his career . |
| 3 | In Jane Austen 's novels a community is defined by a village , rather than its great house , where it is proper that the parson should assume responsibility for the cure of souls . |
| 4 | We know that Russia would like to assume responsibility for the arsenal within its borders . |
| 5 | In consequence , the Joint Contract Tribunal ( JCT ) extended their terms of reference to assume responsibility for the production of standard forms of subcontract and at the same time enlarged their membership by inviting the two main subcontractors ' organisations to become constituent bodies . |
| 6 | In the case of a firm in private practice such solicitor may be a principal , employee or consultant of the firm , provided that the firm must have at least one principal who is a solicitor who has been admitted for at least three years , or alternatively , in the case of a firm none of whose principals exercise any right of audience or right to conduct litigation or supervise or assume responsibility for the exercise of any such right , a foreign lawyer who has been qualified in his or her own jurisdiction for at least three years ; |
| 7 | ( 2 ) in paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule , ‘ principals ’ shall be construed , except in relation to a firm none of whose principals exercise any right of audience or right to conduct litigation or supervise or assume responsibility for the exercise of any such right , as referring to principals who are solicitors ; and |
| 8 | Accordingly , the court had now assumed responsibility for the welfare of the girl and the Official Solicitor had become her legal guardian . |
| 9 | Had the referendum on devolution resulted in a sufficient majority voting in favour of devolution for Wales , then the Welsh Assembly would have come into being and would have assumed responsibility for the administration of all Welsh education outside the university . |
| 10 | The corporation had assumed responsibility for the site in 1945 and had purchased the land in 1957 , although technically it was in the rural district area . |
| 11 | He seems to have decided long before assuming responsibility for the government of Northern Nigeria that in general some form of indirect administration was ‘ in accordance with the spirit of British colonial rule ’ , which was benevolent and not ‘ arbitrary and despotic ’ . |