Example sentences of "take a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do take a paid job , bear in mind that although you can earn up to a certain amount per week without affecting your state pension your wages will also be subject to income tax . |
| 2 | Bernard thought Ellen should take a proper job . |
| 3 | I 'd take a local job , doing anything , before I 'd uproot her . ’ |
| 4 | The LFS asks questions about reasons for taking a temporary job , offering four responses : " because the contract included a period of training " , " because a permanent job could not be found " , " because a permanent job was not wanted " and " other/no reason " . |
| 5 | As Table 2.10 shows , the single most important reason for taking a temporary job was that a permanent job was not available , although even then this was the reason given by only one third of all temporary workers . |
| 6 | As well as the reasons given in answer to direct questions , the LFS provides information on the importance of a further reason for taking a temporary job — that of being a participant in a special employment programme . |
| 7 | Taking a temporary job because it was associated with a course of training was a reason offered by some young persons , although even among them the proportion is not large . |
| 8 | We can see this indirectly from the LFS data which shows that the proportion of temporary working which is " involuntary " ( the proportion of temporary workers taking a temporary job because they were unable to find a permanent job ) is highest in those regions where unemployment too is highest . |
| 9 | The single most important reason for taking a temporary job given by respondents to the LFS was that a permanent job was not available [ see Table 2.10 ] . |
| 10 | The story of Karen and her brown envelope began in 1972 when she took a new job at a nuclear factory in Oklahoma . |
| 11 | If an amateur took a temporary job as a shop assistant , he could be paid without infringing the rules , provided he did not play for prize-money , be paid for lessons , or play golf with anyone for a fee . |
| 12 | But his research ended when his grant ran out , and he took a mundane job as a sub-editor on the Sunday Times colour magazine just before the Wapping dispute began . |
| 13 | It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds . |
| 14 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 15 | Christmas was coming and Ellen took a part-time job in the college office to meet the extra costs of the season , and there met Nerina 's mother , a pleasant woman wearing a serviceable sari and black lace-up shoes . |
| 16 | John and Eleanor arrived back in London in June 1987 and John took a secular job . |
| 17 | I 0 shows , only a minority of all temporary workers said that having a training contract was their reason for having taken a temporary job . |
| 18 | Men , those working full-time and those with fixed-term contracts , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they had been unable to find a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 19 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 20 | To my surprise , she 'd taken a regular job selling frames and contact lenses and had stuck it and was boss of the shop . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 22 | But you do n't need to apply for or take a Compact job if you do n't want to ! |
| 23 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 24 | More disturbing still for Hong Kong businessmen , the governor of Guangdong , Ye Xuanping , is said to be under pressure to leave the province to take a new job as vice-premier in Peking . |
| 25 | He decided to take a salaried job in a posh West End gallery and within a year had landed the directorship of the Marlborough Gallery 's contemporary art venture , the New London Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
| 26 | He left to take a permanent job . |