Example sentences of "not have a job " in BNC.

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1 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 … ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Many thousands of people face the daily struggle of trying to look forward with hope when they do not have a job .
6 ‘ 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 . ’
7 A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home .
8 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 .
9 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 ;
10 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 . ’
11 Is he telling me that every young person in Devon who does not have a job has a YT place ?
12 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 ?
13 And that 's the worst , not having a job , nowhere to go and nowhere to live .
14 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 .
15 I 've been depressed before , at not having a job I suppose .
16 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 .
17 Among women protected by a close , confiding relationship with their husband , not having a job was unimportant and did not increase their vulnerability .
18 They have all introduced a discount scheme to enable those unfortunate enough not to have a job not to have a proper job the same access to all these facilities as those in work .
19 And correspondingly , not to have a job is highly unfavourable so people outside paid work are considered inferior .
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