Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | and leave you free to do a job , because you may think I mean , believe it or I 've turned this room inside out today ! |
| 2 | Any attempt to reward performance job by job should be viewed with caution as , with the exception of commercial developments , where time and money are interrelated , it is usually impossible to complete a job successfully by spending the shortest possible time on it . |
| 3 | I 'm divorced now and not finding it easy to get a job in civvy street . ’ |
| 4 | Pepita had been fortunate to have a job where there was a doctor or nurse on site . |
| 5 | It is very hard to find a job . |
| 6 | It 's very hard to find a job which does n't involve some interaction with machinery , with computing or whatever . |
| 7 | So if all this poses a threat to a 19-year-old getting a job , something is wrong as it 's still quite obvious that employers prefer people with no ties . |
| 8 | You do n't have anywhere to wash your clothes or even yourself sometimes , so you 're dirty and your clothes are dirty and you 're not eating properly so you 're more liable to illness and this sort of thing , so that you 're not likely to keep a job even if you get it , and you ca n't get accommodation without a deposit , and so you need several hundred pounds in order to get accommodation . |
| 9 | Those who can also show some engineering or other relevant qualifications are , of course , more likely to land a job . |
| 10 | Robyn considered herself lucky to get a job for one term at one of the London colleges , deputizing for a woman lecturer on maternity leave . |
| 11 | I was lucky to get a job at Highgate , and after a few years was able tor educe my teaching to three days a week . |
| 12 | He 'd been a docker before the war , lucky to get a job in the Depression years . |
| 13 | He was lucky to have a job like this . |
| 14 | Most of us consider ourselves lucky to have a job . |
| 15 | AT3 : ‘ I 've thought it over ; cuts ; lucky to have a job ! ’ |
| 16 | Then the fortunate staff who are still employed and they 're regarded as fortunate that you 've still got a job , because that 's what the management use repeatedly to professional people like nurses , sisters and other professional organizations who work within the Health Service , you 're very lucky to have a job . |
| 17 | Matthew 's supposed to have a job there now . |
| 18 | Women are most likely to get a job , and particularly part-time work , via informal social networks and the importance of this successful method increases with duration of unemployment ( Erens and Hedges , 1990 ) . |
| 19 | But you were glad to get a job , that were the thing . |
| 20 | She could n't do much yet , and was certainly not fit to take a job — otherwise she would have made Breeze go to Edinburgh , and gone down to Penzance herself . |
| 21 | It is perfectly reasonable to select a job advertisement for a similar post in a particular publication and to ask that journal to tell you what was the size of the response . |
| 22 | And you can all of these , all of the ones where they say , so many men or women take so long to do a job , how many . |
| 23 | So that erm , it does you good to have a job , it looks good on a C V , and they would do as little as possible , and if you , if you disciplined them , then one of them says oh well , I 'll leave , me dad will give me the money anyway . |
| 24 | To decry d decry Unemployment Action , claiming it to be work is , and at the same time supporting the Labour Party policy which would make it acceptable to receive benefit without training , but illegal to have a job without training , is a strange morality . |
| 25 | If you do lose those links then you 're much less likely to be able to find a job in the future because still most jobs are actually found through personal contacts of one sort or another . |
| 26 | Erm , that carried on for a while , I thought I was doing very very well , being able to do a job like that . |
| 27 | They have had the benefit of that , but for my part I was able to do a job I really loved . ’ |
| 28 | Viewers latched on to , and sympathized with , a vulnerable character who was unable to keep a job — as a security guard he lost his dog and as a fireman he kept missing the fire engine — and roared with laughter as his world collapsed around him . |
| 29 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 30 | Mr Bull said since Smith was released from prison in April 1990 , after laundering stolen cheques , he had been unable to get a job until he managed to fool the WDA . |