Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployed after many years in government service , he wrote his handbook of advice to new rulers in an attempt to win a job with the incoming Medici administration . |
| 2 | Haslam found this a rather passive role compared to running a business himself , so when he was asked to become ICI 's personnel director he jumped at the opportunity to tackle a job which appeared to have a higher executive content . |
| 3 | ‘ I need 500 naira ( $60 ) to buy equipment to complete a job I 'm doing , ’ says carpenter Mustapha Sanusi , jostling for a place in the queue for application forms . |
| 4 | The prosecution then formally offered no evidence against Hewitt on a charge of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception by helping Turpin fake a CV to get a job with Europarks and a not guilty verdict was recorded . |
| 5 | Perhaps she lacked confidence to find a job outside the house or manage contraception efficiently . |
| 6 | The adherence to professional standards and the desire to do a job well are motives that induce workers to serve their employers and customers well . |
| 7 | ‘ I picked a team to do a job on the night . |
| 8 | In fact er on many occasions they would have to move out of town to get a job . |
| 9 | Instances in which workers take the initiative to get a job done reflect cooperative elements in the employment relationship . |
| 10 | Ewan is the 2,000th disabled person to find a job in the area of Glasgow , Renfrew and Dumbarton since the Employment Service set up a committee to spearhead initiatives in this field more than a year ago . |
| 11 | It stands to reason that you can not find the right person to do a job unless you know yourself exactly what that job is . |
| 12 | It seemed to him now , that she had planted inside him the dark seed of failure : that from it , everything else had flowered , his inability to keep a job , his uselessness , his drinking , his failed marriage . |
| 13 | It restricts the mobility of workers and so keeps unemployment higher than it need be : people who own their homes are less willing to move to another area to find a job . |
| 14 | I find it totally unacceptable that another football club manager is not allowed into a ground to do a job . |
| 15 | So you see it is n't easy for a woman to keep a job . |
| 16 | In addition , the desire to keep up a respectable level of income or the desire of the woman to have a job or career , may lead to the woman going to work . |
| 17 | Teaming up with the Unanimous Decision Crew he talks us through a languid groove based story of how ‘ hard it is for a black man to get a job ’ , ‘ If you 're black , what 's your destination ? ’ he enquires . |
| 18 | Next , when you apply for the job ask the employer to provide a job description that will answer most of the questions . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's always a challenge to do a job others ca n't do . |
| 20 | Having developed such plant-specific skills , a worker will not be in a position to find a job of equivalent pay elsewhere , and so this factor , too , ‘ integrates ’ the worker into the plant , in the sense Mallet uses the term . |
| 21 | There 's only one way to do a job , and that 's the way I do it , and that 's perfect . |
| 22 | We are elected by the public to do a job and we should n't be ashamed of the amount of money that we 're paid for it , and what I would say is , that no manifesto in May 's election said we were going to come here and vote for more money for members , nobody put on their leaflets , vote for me and I will raise members allowances by five percent in the coming year , I did n't and I wo n't support that , and you will argue , perhaps some of you that that 's not really what we 're doing , but it look 's like it , does n't it ? |
| 23 | Some personal needs will be more important than others and an individual will be prepared to sacrifice some of his objectives for his own greater benefit ( eg. an individual may be prepared to sacrifice some of his time in order to do a job which earns extra money ) . |
| 24 | In order to get a job at the end of the war , she and Siegfried need to obtain what she calls a ‘ Persil-Schein certificate denazifying us whiter than white ’ ( 79/473 ) . |
| 25 | But in order to get married , I needed a job , and in order to get a job , I needed a Ph.D . |
| 26 | You do n't look like a woman who would falsify a document to get a job , but you did . |
| 27 | What would my attitude be if asked to move in order to take a job ? |
| 28 | Finally , after Green died , Dorothy Wordsworth helped Green 's son to find a job . |
| 29 | It was high time for practical things , it was time to get a job . |