Example sentences of "job [pers pn] [be] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The only people who are are the politicians whose job it is to sort this crisis out . ’ |
2 | Certainly few people in the West , even the intelligence agencies whose job it is to monitor such dissidence , had much idea of the latent forces that this choice in the wilderness represented in Iran itself . |
3 | Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact . |
4 | He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic . |
5 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
6 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
7 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
8 | The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success . |