Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [art] job " in BNC.

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1 He did not want the job at all .
2 Alas , Mr Shevardnadze speaks almost no English or French and may not want the job .
3 When Section D was absorbed into the newly formed SOE ( Special Operations Executive ) in 1940 , Burgess was not given a job , and he returned to the BBC in 1941 , responsible for propaganda to occupied Europe and liaison with the SIS and SOE .
4 These experiments generally show that there is discrimination against black people in the sense that the black actor is not given the job , or is told that it is filled , while the similarly qualified white actor is given the job .
5 Getting a friend to feed the fish seems like a good idea , but after you have learned the discipline to only feed that tiny amount it may be better not to trust the job to an inexperienced person .
6 If individuals do not need a job or title or status to know who they are ( e.g. in older societies ) , then the energy they put into their job or career may seem slight to those in the new societies .
7 Training schemes do not guarantee a job , but they do provide necessary skills . ’
8 Is not it a pity that when we had the chance we did not finish the job ?
9 The number of men not working and not seeking a job has risen by almost half between 1971 and 1985 , from 9 per cent to 13 per cent .
10 They are not dissatisfied with the job content because they did not expect the job to be intrinsically rewarding .
11 The consequences of these price increases are of course varied and complex ; there is no doubt , however , that they have not made the job of existing and would-be future UK exporters any easier .
12 It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church .
13 If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now .
14 If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now .
15 • concentrate on careful brushing , toothpaste alone will not do the job
16 Birch fails to convince me that a more traditional theology could not do the job .
17 Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa .
18 What is not acknowledged is the fact that it is very difficult to tell someone their blood is no good or they can not do the job .
19 It is totally pointless to use extra-heavy rods at short range which can not do the job they were designed for if they are not used with lines of the appropriate length .
20 Local mechanics can not do the job , so once the US experts have left , the government will have the burden of spending limited foreign currency to buy spare parts from abroad .
21 Officials in charge of the roads in California and Texas say the material , called epoflex , is difficult to apply and may not do the job intended .
22 As we proceed with making a tie , the purpose of it will become apparent — as well as the reason why plastic straps , loops of string and , worst of all , wire loops , do not do the job and can be so dangerous .
23 When he returns for his payment she shows him another body , claiming the porter has not done the job asked of him .
24 to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it !
25 God did not give the job , he could not , and he did not try to give the job to anybody else !
26 Stephen Ross phoned in from Cardiff , he says can Labour lower the consent for gay people if they get in ; Mike Collins from Chesterfield says he 's not had a job for 11 years , has to pay for all sorts of things , he wants some action from Labour on long-term unemployment … ’
27 He said , nearly 40pc ( 518 ) of young people on the dole in Darlington had not had a job for over half a year and one sixth ( 217 ) had not worked for over a year .
28 She decided that she did not want to stay because she did not like the job .
29 But the Welsh builders were unhappy about staying in a small French village without fried eggs and sausages for breakfast and although the local hotelier was eventually persuaded that this fare was absolutely essential , the Welsh contingent did not see the job through and a third firm , French again , was then brought in .
30 You may be someone who has acknowledged biases and prejudices which are hard to set aside when making decisions , but which might lead you to overlook a suitable candidate if you did not use the job and personnel specifications as your guideline .
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