Example sentences of "[verb] to take responsibility for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case , it has to take responsibility for allocating all foreign exchange to the users by administrative methods . |
| 2 | The course is adapted for each group , and the group itself has to take responsibility for completing the assigned tasks . |
| 3 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 4 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |
| 5 | Lastly , you may be perfectly healthy but are one of those increasing number of people who want to take responsibility for their own well-being and wish to discover more about themselves . |
| 6 | Previously , after six weeks the students would teach one ( heavily prepared ) lesson ; now , in theory , at least , they could be expected to take responsibility for a class for six or seven weeks . |
| 7 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 8 | Whom do you trust to take responsibility for Britain 's defence ; to keep us safe and strengthen our influence for good ? |
| 9 | In practice this rarely seems to work and the school needs to take responsibility for much of the incidental training . |
| 10 | And the head — above all — needs to take responsibility for the whole programme . |
| 11 | I look at her in surprise and she shrugs gracelessly , as if she were refusing to take responsibility for her indolence rather than her zeal . |
| 12 | This is surrounded by images of body fragments which ask questions ( ‘ How do I begin to take responsibility for my body ? ’ ) taken in an early phototherapy session . |
| 13 | It 's possible to use a game as a way of demonstrating to children how they can begin to take responsibility for their own learning . |
| 14 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 15 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 16 | He asked : ‘ Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 17 | Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 18 | By April 1994 , the ES intends to take responsibility for negotiating pay with the appropriate trade unions for everyone in the ES . |
| 19 | How Do I Begin to Take Responsibility for my Body ? |
| 20 | Beginning to take responsibility for their own property , they may be proud to count how many paintings they have done or sort their work from the pile , to take home . |
| 21 | Other teachers involved in the intake year were invited to take responsibility for preparing materials for some areas of the new curriculum . |
| 22 | The force facility can be used as often as required for a particular SPR , for example , if a user does not wish to take responsibility for the SPR or if a user accepts the SPR but at a later date passes the work onto someone else . |
| 23 | European countries urged to take responsibility for waste |
| 24 | Hashimoto 's standing as a likely successor to Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu was damaged by having to take responsibility for his ministry 's lax supervision of the securities industry . |
| 25 | But from 20 onwards , I would have to take responsibility for managing my own life . ’ |
| 26 | However , the best man or chief bridesmaid will have to take responsibility for the announcement , and the safekeeping of any gift . |
| 27 | The only way out would be to get the Lib Dems to take responsibility for the posters — which they refused to do , for fear of alienating Tory waverers . |
| 28 | Amy has also learned to take responsibility for her own happiness , rather than trusting Joe to invest and harvest it for her . |
| 29 | You 're on your own until I 'm forced to take responsibility for you again . |
| 30 | According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia . |