Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] job " in BNC.

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1 Given the current job losses in the country , will the Government reconsider their appalling position ?
2 And Pitt-Rivers was the first civil servant given the difficult job of persuading landowners that they ought to stop dealing with their property as they thought fit and hand it over to the control of a state agency .
3 Somehow the whole family managed to make it to Brisbane where Captain Burrows was given the important job of looking after the General 's flag .
4 Peter Thorburn , the other new face on the All Black panel , has been given the bread-and-butter jobs , while the Mains-Kirton tandem takes the top side .
5 Given the horrendous job losses that have been announced this month in the manufacturing sector , are these signs of the success of the Government 's economic policy ?
6 Mr Clarke revealed the fresh job losses when he addressed the annual conference of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers in Weymouth , where he faced angry questions from delegates who feel badly let down by the corporation .
7 This sort of bureau is most happy when it is handling the complete job from design through to the final artwork and , in some cases , will even do the printing as well .
8 This produced the perfect job , and a metal copy was made down in the tool-room .
9 Still , they got the difficult jobs done and that was the main thing .
10 But they got the main job done and now they want to do the same against Spain next month before heading to Belfast for a party .
11 Foley does not want the permanent job , saying : ‘ I again regard it as a short-term business . ’
12 It 's only a few days since I was sitting in the seats you all occupy , realising the difficult job that a Lord Mayor has to undertake in keeping members in order .
13 I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away .
14 When I was 16 I gained GSE grade one English and chose not to accept the only job suggested , packing boxes ; instead I tried further education .
15 Harold Hobson , the chairman of the Central Electricity Board ( who had expected the top job in the new organisation himself ) , pointedly refused to work as Citrine 's deputy and resigned from the CEB prematurely .
16 finally , in the autumn of 1979 , Diana found the perfect job , working part-time as an assistant in a small kindergarten in Pimlico , for a friend of her other sister , Jane .
17 There are essentially three parts in the construction of the game : first , the assembly of the printed circuit board ( p.c.b. ) which is quite straightforward ; secondly , the assembly of the wicket and fielding l.e.d.s on to the board which can be a piece of thin plywood or hardboard sheet , an assembly which is a bit fiddly but not insurmountable ; thirdly , the fabrication of a very simple box which holds the finished job in a nice compact manner .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 She said : ‘ You do n't need a written job specification to know what they 're looking for .
21 ‘ The roads are excellent in Libya so you do not need a four-wheel-drive job , and there is certainly no shortage of petrol . ’
22 SUSAN Finley had to be as tough as nails to secure a top job aboard a luxury cruise liner .
23 Some are retirees who want a part-time job .
24 I want a decent job , I want to do something useful , and something interesting .
25 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 .
26 I would n't train full-time ; I thought : ‘ No , I want a good job . ’
27 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 .
28 He found a good job .
29 He found a new job at the ‘ people 's own ’ Narva light-bulb factory in Friedrichshain .
30 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 .
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