Example sentences of "whose job " in BNC.

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1 Tortured by the regime in South Africa , Roche has written a book about it , and now , in the Caribbean , has joined the firm of Sablich 's as a welfare worker , whose job is to define and to publicise the firm 's good intentions toward the community .
2 Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production .
3 Above all , this fear arises in work where the police encounter outsiders whose job it is to make them appear wrong or incompetent — mostly court duty .
4 Artists based outside London should certainly make it their business to locate each publication 's local ‘ stringer ’ whose job it is to reflect the scene in their own city or town .
5 He said there was a person , famous throughout the land , whose job it was to visit the halls where films were being shown and to describe the films to the local people .
6 If life was a battle and Charlie Hatton a soldier of fortune he , Wexford , stood in the position of United Nations patrol whose job it was to prevent incursions on the territory of the defenceless .
7 A single , introverted individual who was self-catering and whose job did not require contact with others would be able to live like this .
8 Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact .
9 WHOSE job is it to look after people whose bodies are incapacitated , for one reason or another ?
10 He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing .
11 However , the public on Møn was a small one and the park was visited primarily by public servants from other parts of Denmark , whose job it was to plant out public places — and also by visitors to the Villa and The Tamarisks .
12 Smiles , 52 , led a ‘ police force ’ of more than 50 investigators , whose job was to analyse any irregularities in the racing world .
13 For England and Pakistan to have contested the World Cup final was a marvellous bonus for those whose job it is to sell tickets in advance .
14 This was a crude nuclear reactor whose job was simply to produce plutonium for the manufacture of atomic bombs .
15 There are separate military reactors at Calder Hall , across the river from Sellafield , and at Chapelcross , near Annan in Dumfriesshire , whose job is primarily to produce plutonium for the Ministry of Defence .
16 A legislative authority on the other hand is one whose job is to create new reasons for its subjects , i.e. reasons which are new not merely in the sense of replacing other reasons on which they depend , but in not purporting to replace any reasons at all .
17 Tourists see in British domestic architecture qualities which those whose job it is to protect them often ignore .
18 When the golf-mad queen returned to Britain from France after her marriage to the Dauphin , later Francis II , her entourage included cadres of pages referred to as cadets , whose job it was to assist and answer the Queen 's every whim .
19 The only members of the hunt dedicated to the actual kill are of course the hounds , the huntsman whose job it is to train them to hunt , possibly a farmer whose stock has been damaged by foxes , and possibly the masters who are interested in controlling the fox population .
20 There are those who wish to mechanise man and to assign pain to the operation of a specific Cartesian mechanism whose job is to detect injury and inevitably provoke the pain response .
21 Redundancies have by no means been restricted to those nearing the end of their careers or whose job performance has been subject to criticism .
22 If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department .
23 Homelessness is often not thought to be a rural problem but there are some unemployed whose job searches in the city have failed and who would rather be unemployed in the countryside .
24 In addition , the party groups often appoint Whips , whose job it is not just to enforce party discipline , but by operating what is referred to in Parliamentary jargon as ‘ the usual channels ’ can assist in the smooth running of the authority , by , for example , effecting agreements on nominations to committees or outside bodies .
25 This generalisation is more applicable to chief executives who must look outside their organisation than to those managers whose job is wholly an internal one .
26 Some companies ( particularly in the USA ) , in response to these and other factors , decided in the late 70s and early 80s that they should designate within their organisations a person or persons whose job would be to specialise in the acquisition and processing of information from the environment that might be of potential strategic importance .
27 This meant that each small boy was accompanied to church by an older boy whose job it was to find the hymns and generally ensure good behaviour .
28 I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long .
29 The ‘ Beveridgites ’ may be most comfortable in Health Authorities whose job is to ensure that services are available for their populations .
30 Whenever aircraft returned from raids the first persons to be allowed on board were the squadron armourers , whose job it was to make the bombs safe before anything else could be done , and this could be a highly tricky and dangerous undertaking , especially where incendiary bombs or those with time delay devices were concerned .
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