Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often the case that when all is going well in life , tackling a heavy job can seem a treat , whereas in times of stress a dirty footprint on a new-washed floor is the last straw . |
| 2 | The arrival of the new Saturday l25mph High Speed Train service from Swansea to Pembroke provided a new job for the train guard : he had to leap out at Manorbier to open the crossing gates , wait for the train to clear the crossing , close them , and then walk seven coach lengths to give the driver the right away . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ You do n't need a written job specification to know what they 're looking for . |
| 4 | ‘ The roads are excellent in Libya so you do not need a four-wheel-drive job , and there is certainly no shortage of petrol . ’ |
| 5 | SUSAN Finley had to be as tough as nails to secure a top job aboard a luxury cruise liner . |
| 6 | Some are retirees who want a part-time job . |
| 7 | I want a decent job , I want to do something useful , and something interesting . |
| 8 | My father 's sort of said to me that if I want a job afterwards , and if I want a decent job and a job with a future , it 's got to be on the engineering side of the works . |
| 9 | I would n't train full-time ; I thought : ‘ No , I want a good job . ’ |
| 10 | These teachers are telling us that you 've got to work hard if you want a good job but there 's no jobs there anyway . |
| 11 | He found a good job . |
| 12 | He found a new job at the ‘ people 's own ’ Narva light-bulb factory in Friedrichshain . |
| 13 | The proportion of people initially becoming unemployed as a result of the coming to an end of a temporary job who found a new job within 10 months of initial registration was not markedly different from the proportion applying to the total sample , even after taking age into account . |
| 14 | An even clearer result was that , of those who had entered into unemployment because a temporary job had come to an end and who found a new job within 10 months , nearly twice as many ( 44 per cent ) took temporary jobs as did the generality of those finding work ( 25 per cent ) [ see Table 4.6 ] . |
| 15 | The dealer contemplated suing the recruitment agency until he found a better job . |
| 16 | then I found a bloody job ! |
| 17 | Later he found a temporary job and a room . |
| 18 | Mr Smith said : ‘ People should enjoy , as a right of citizenship and not as a privilege of wealth , the opportunity of a good education , the chance to find a decent job with decent pay , the opportunity to buy or rent a decent home . |
| 19 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 20 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job |
| 21 | The recession has hit the printing industry hard and the Media Union says it 's unlikely staff will be able to find a similar job . |
| 22 | I wanted to find a better job , but for a factory you need to have finished school and in the coffee processing industries they ask for ninth grade . |
| 23 | On these occasions those temporary workers recruited were ex-employees — those who had been dismissed in recent downturns and who had been unable to find a new job . |
| 24 | Unless they are given opportunities to express their grief in appropriate ways which can include weeping for loss , they will never be able to acquire the creative energy necessary to find a new job . |
| 25 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 26 | Table 2.11 shows that inability to find a permanent job remained the most frequent reason given by young people for taking temporary work . |
| 27 | Men , those working full-time and those with fixed-term contracts , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they had been unable to find a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 28 | We can see this indirectly from the LFS data which shows that the proportion of temporary working which is " involuntary " ( the proportion of temporary workers taking a temporary job because they were unable to find a permanent job ) is highest in those regions where unemployment too is highest . |
| 29 | This suggests that in more favourable employment conditions it is easier to find a permanent job from which to continue one 's job search — in other words , that the search could take place from a more secure base . |
| 30 | Wednesday approached a difficult job well and scored two good-looking goals , but the truth is the tie was really lost in Kaiserslautern , where goalscorer David Hirst was sent off in bizarre circumstances . |