Example sentences of "want a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are retirees who want a part-time job . |
| 2 | I want a decent job , I want to do something useful , and something interesting . |
| 3 | My father 's sort of said to me that if I want a job afterwards , and if I want a decent job and a job with a future , it 's got to be on the engineering side of the works . |
| 4 | I would n't train full-time ; I thought : ‘ No , I want a good job . ’ |
| 5 | These teachers are telling us that you 've got to work hard if you want a good job but there 's no jobs there anyway . |
| 6 | On the other hand , for women not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given , and a considerably smaller share said they were working on a temporary basis because permanent work was not available . |
| 7 | Agency workers , too , were more likely to give not wanting a permanent job as their reason for working on a temporary basis . |
| 8 | For people over pension age on the other hand , not wanting a permanent job was the most common reason . |
| 9 | For women , on the other hand , not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given ( 37 per cent ) . |
| 10 | In each of these cases , the proportion of temporary workers who could be described as " voluntary " temporary workers ( i.e. not wanting a permanent job ) was much higher than the proportion who could be described as " involuntary " ( i.e. unable to get a permanent job ) . |
| 11 | Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want a permanent job ? ’ |
| 13 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 14 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job . |
| 17 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 18 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't want a proper job like an accountant , ’ he says . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't want a proper job like an accountant . |
| 21 | He rejoined Birmingham as No 2 to Terry Cooper but has always wanted a top job of his own . |
| 22 | ‘ I would like to have continued producing cars to win Irish rallies but apart from Bertie Fisher too many people wanted a professional job at an amateur price , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 24 | Crelinsten classified torturers into the zealots , who were professionals and true believers in the causes for which they tortured ; the careerists , who wanted a well-paid job with privileges ; and the sadists , who enjoyed cruelty . |