Example sentences of "job for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they have so much trouble finding beds in London hospitals , they 've got this little company set up to do the job for the doctors , so there is no way in the world that I can believe there 's a shortage of beds . |
| 2 | It was a tough job for the judges , but after tasting thousands of cups of tea they 've announced a winner . |
| 3 | And so the wages went up and down annually like as distinct from monthly , which was a bit of a job for the employers to adjust every month . |
| 4 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's a job for the men — I 've warned you — get out from there . |
| 6 | There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers . |
| 7 | maintenance workshop and be done , that used to be the job for the fitters and blacksmiths . |
| 8 | The wartime shortage of labour ensured more jobs for the blacks , but they seldom got the better jobs . |
| 9 | As BR and union leaders tried to resolve the problem of finding new jobs for the teams , the men turned up for work each day at Liverpool 's Central Station and simply sat in their vans for eight hours a day . |
| 10 | He use of it was scarcely unprecedented : ‘ jobs for the boys ’ , Tory MPs had cried as Harold Wilson infiltrated another trades union general secretary or a congenial academic on to the board of one or another of the great national institutions in his gift . |
| 11 | The Open Door programme Jobs for the Boys ? |
| 12 | Jobs for the Boys ? talked to women engineers in various disciplines . |
| 13 | Fewer jobs for the boys |
| 14 | The crusading Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser assails this almost weekly for its alleged distribution of ‘ jobs for the boys ’ — and girls , many from the councillors ' own families . |
| 15 | Editing awards : case of jobs for the boys ? |
| 16 | It smacks of jobs for the boys . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman is always talking about jobs for the boys . |
| 18 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 19 | Jobs for the boys it was . |
| 20 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 21 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 22 | A MONKLANDS regional Labour councillor said yesterday that he has proof to back up allegations of ‘ jobs for the boys ’ in Monklands District Council . |
| 23 | Councillor John Murphy told The Scotsman last week that he had proof to back up ‘ jobs for the boys ’ claims in Monklands . |
| 24 | The councillor , who also spoke out to the local newspaper to counter what he said were council leader Jim Brooks ' unfounded assertions that jobs for the boys claims were simply smears , also called on other party members in the area to step forward publicly with any information they had on malpractice . |
| 25 | Council worker suspended over ‘ jobs for the boys ’ claim |
| 26 | A STRATHCLYDE regional councillor has been suspended from his job as a caretaker with Monklands District Council for his claims that he has proof to back up ‘ jobs for the boys ’ allegations . |
| 27 | And to try to create jobs for the women so that even if their men are out of work they can provide at least some income . |
| 28 | Lady Paignton , too , found various jobs for the girls , as Mrs Dare had prophesied , and when her son Tony came home for a fortnight , things began to hum in another direction . |
| 29 | ‘ Jobs for the girls ’ probe |
| 30 | Leslie Hinds , the leader of Edinburgh District Council , is at the centre of a jobs for the girls row . |