Example sentences of "[verb] an [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to find employment , he was reduced to becoming an odd job man . |
| 2 | If you occupied a senior position , you may not be under an immediate duty to accept an alternative job of an inferior status . |
| 3 | IF Gorbachev the Great is looking more and more like Mixed-up Mikhail , it is not just because he has an impossible job . |
| 4 | It still has an enormous job to do . |
| 5 | ‘ She has an important job , ’ he said . |
| 6 | My Committee has an important job to do . |
| 7 | Presentation of speakers and occasions to present the case are highlights of such work , but around all such events the public relations officer has an hourly job of relating to the media what is happening in the argument and what the various leaders are saying and thinking . |
| 8 | The very expansion of the school systems has by itself created an enormous job market for teachers , with women in the majority . |
| 9 | Many of the younger ones do , and many of the older ones would like to , but are trapped by financial commitments , pension prospects and the fear , accurate or not , of being unqualified for or unable to find an alternative job . |
| 10 | ‘ Gambling became an obsession with him , eventually he lost everything they possessed , and my mother begged and pleaded with him to give it all up — to find an ordinary job and give up the gaming life . |
| 11 | William Jackson , always called ‘ Father ’ , A-pay-gee ( big father ) in Burmese , had done an amazing job in giving confidence to his blind pupils , reducing Burmese to Braille , planning weaving , making baskets and mats of all descriptions . |
| 12 | Sir Edward Heath has done an admirable job , do you think that the die was cast anyway ? |
| 13 | Or did you feel , well , he 's done an admirable job . |
| 14 | One of the most remarkable contributions opens the book : Monte San , born in the 1880s , in an age where the then sovereign , Queen Victoria , refused to believe lesbians existed anywhere , let alone in the British Empire 's colonies ) Bradstock and Wakeling have done an admirable job in putting together a collection of personal essays that explore the inner and outer ramifications of being a lesbian , in the last hundred years of the myth-shrouded place that is Australia . |
| 15 | Peter Wright has done an admirable job and not just in the set scrum . |
| 16 | ‘ Jimmy Nicholl has done an unbelievable job with them , ’ observed the former Celtic man . |
| 17 | Scottish Television 's Managing Director Gus Macdonald said Mr Scott had done an outstanding job in strengthening the news and current affairs programming . |
| 18 | Let's start by saying that David Jones has done an excellent job here . |
| 19 | If Moxon , still young in captaincy terms , were to be given the job there would be a strong argument in favour of a team manager and as Illingworth , perhaps wisely , has rejected one offer to return ( from Leicestershire ) Yorkshire might look at another native son who has , from all accounts , done an excellent job in his first year of managment at Somerset , Jack Birkenshaw . |
| 20 | ‘ He has done an excellent job , ’ Wanless says . |
| 21 | On the surface , nobody could quarrel with its conclusions ; Cadbury has done an excellent job in producing a basically sensible code of good practice . |
| 22 | ‘ Gerry Francis has done an excellent job , and they could be the surprise package , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Well nobody 's mentioned the Queen and I think the Queen 's done an excellent job ! |
| 24 | She concludes that , on balance , the RMCs have done an excellent job and that the most successful ones have been based on colleges or groups of colleges which already had pockets of energy and entrepreneurial spirit and like the South West RMC were closely linked with the communities they served . |
| 25 | You have certainly done an excellent job and I hope that at our next meeting on 11 August 1993 at 10.00 a.m . |
| 26 | He stood at the doorway regarding the room with approval before he said , ‘ Thank you , girls — you 've done an excellent job . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The MMB has done an excellent job for milk producers in the past , providing a sure market and a guaranteed payment for their milk . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ All BNFL people and contractor companies involved have done an excellent job and I would like to express the company 's thanks . |
| 29 | Quite a phenomenal achievement for the party to pool that number of quite diverse opinions together , professional , Country Landowners Association , all the District Councils , have done an excellent job of unity and cooperation , and I think that 's very , very welcome indeed . |
| 30 | It 's a shame for shopkeepers … we 've been here for three years and have always done an excellent job for them . |