Example sentences of "not [verb] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Training schemes do not guarantee a job , but they do provide necessary skills . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The UN said that a Japanese volunteer in Cambodia was probably killed not by the Khmers Rouges , as had been thought , but by somebody disgruntled at not getting a job . |
| 8 | For some , the reason is one of choice ; they do not have a job or social links that tie them to a 24 hour day . |
| 9 | Some accountants are reluctant to take unpaid leave because they fear they will not have a job to come back to if , as seems to many likely , there is another wave of redundancies . |
| 10 | Many thousands of people face the daily struggle of trying to look forward with hope when they do not have a job . |
| 11 | ‘ I have three children and even though I do not have a job at present , they will never have to suffer in the same way as the children of Somalia . ’ |
| 12 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 13 | On the other hand , many people who do not have a job but who in principle would like one do not , for one reason or another , register as unemployed . |
| 14 | in spite of continuing claims of IT skill shortages in 1984 , one-third of students completing IT Advanced Courses did not have a job to go to and were seeking employment at the end of their courses ; |
| 15 | Unless you return to the UK with my business , not only do you not have a job , but the whole future of Grantham and Marsh is on the line . ’ |
| 16 | Is he telling me that every young person in Devon who does not have a job has a YT place ? |
| 17 | Does my hon. Friend agree that probably the only economy in which full employment was implemented was the Soviet Union , where those who did not have a job were usually found somewhere to go , such as Siberia or the Gulag archipelago ? |
| 18 | Do not take a job on the basis of a vague letter of appointment . |
| 19 | Those taking up job-release allowances must not take a job or set up in business on their own , and their employer must undertake to recruit as soon as possible a registered unemployed worker . |
| 20 | And that 's the worst , not having a job , nowhere to go and nowhere to live . |
| 21 | Moreover , not having a job strikes at that aspect of citizenship which involves the carrying out of social duties , one of which is to earn a living for oneself and one 's family . |
| 22 | I 've been depressed before , at not having a job I suppose . |
| 23 | Because we 're both level headed people and not having a job was obviously a big thing in our lives and I 'd indicated to Anne that if we did move away , I would stand a much better chance of getting a job . |
| 24 | Among women protected by a close , confiding relationship with their husband , not having a job was unimportant and did not increase their vulnerability . |
| 25 | She has been unable to get an academic job since ; she did not get a job in science until 1990 , when she was hired by Genetics Institute , a biotechnology company founded by one of her few supporters , Mark Ptashne of Harvard . |
| 26 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 28 | Er , but by the time I had my passport so I thought may not get a job again better to try the luck somewhere else . |
| 29 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 30 | There is a difficult Catch-22 situation because people can not get a job until they have housing and they can not get a mortgage until they have a job . |