Example sentences of "their job " in BNC.
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1 | Added upset came in the same year from a speech by Dr W. Starkie , the commissioner of National Education in Ireland , who attacked school managers for not being up to their job . |
2 | Intentionality is usually overlooked by causal theorists who tend to see their job as being to sort out the afferent limb . |
3 | In many cases teachers have been indoctrinated with the view that it is not their job to encourage competitive sports . |
4 | Many of the emigrants are skilled workers confident of their job prospects . |
5 | Mr Patten 's new policy guidance does not say the South-east 's housing provision can be held static , and it reminds planners that their job is to provide an adequate flow of land into new housing . |
6 | ‘ What we will expect the regions to do is adhere to the firm budgets by doing their job properly , ’ he said . |
7 | Most families rely on income earned outside their job . |
8 | Further quizzical glances were invited when he left out Mark Preston yesterday , preferring half-fit wings in Joe Lydon and Henderson Gill , but Wigan muddled through , their job made easier by the tourists lacklustre performance . |
9 | The staff care about and enjoy their job . |
10 | This topic has less attraction for ordinary policemen and women , for although they might take pleasure in thing someone is interested in their views , it is they who run the risks associated with answering questions and from being observed doing their job . |
11 | Something you write could lose somebody their job … |
12 | The tendency of sergeants to follow the field-worker around and to ask what she had learnt also soon dissipated as the routine demands of their job became a more pressing priority . |
13 | The thing is , young officers coming into the force , doing what they 've been taught is their job , the next thing they know they 've got people making complaints against them . |
14 | These quotations hint at a number of important dimensions to policing in Northern Ireland : that policemen and women in the RUC have common-sense conceptualizations of their role , with some defining it in terms of community service ; that they have sets of standardized guide-lines , what Schutz ( 1967 ) calls ‘ recipes ’ , appropriate for the situations they handle ; that they make , and try to maintain , a distinction between work and leisure ; and that they employ various distancing strategies to cope with the demands of their job . |
15 | In ethnomethodological terms , routine policing is a practical achievement accomplished through the practices ordinary policemen and women use in ‘ doing ’ the tasks which comprise their job . |
16 | In order to establish how police work is accomplished , therefore , it is necessary to examine such things as the common-sense notions ordinary policemen and women have about their role , what they consider to be the essence of police work , what typifications and categorizations infuse the practical reasoning they employ to accomplish policing tasks , and what ‘ recipes ’ or guide-lines they adopt in undertaking the various aspects of their job . |
17 | It appears that policemen and women the world over have similar views about their job and agree on what aspects of police work they like and dislike . |
18 | The fear that the encounter might have been handled incompetently is concealed in dismissive remarks about this type of work , about it not bring their job , as well as critical comments on the members of the public who think it is and who therefore make unrealistic demands on them . |
19 | The marginality they experience within the force might lead them to exaggerate their job satisfaction , but this cuts both ways , for the unpopularity of community relations among many ordinary members of the RUC guarantees it will not appeal to any but the committed , and section duties already afford the work-shy many opportunities to hide . |
20 | This autonomy is jealously defended by neighbourhood policemen in Easton , who see it as an essential part of their job , as one was ruefully reminded after being transferred to the Traffic Branch . |
21 | other Radio I broadcasters see their job as being popular entertainers . |
22 | Even though some presenters use music merely as a vehicle for their own performances , it is worth remembering that they would all find it very difficult to do their job without the music base . |
23 | On the one hand the dispute was escalating through mass action into a head-on dispute with the government and employers ; on the other hand , the trade union leadership with their job of negotiating ( or compromising ) between the workers and the bosses were becoming redundant . |
24 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
25 | For 150 years , police have regarded their job as the control of crime and criminals , of coping with social deviancy . |
26 | Ever-improving standards of production and design ( hear Arnold Bennett in 1921 complaining that ‘ operatic mismanagers are obsessed with the music and they leave everything else to people who are either dead and have forgotten to get themselves buried or who do n't know the elements of their job ’ ) . |
27 | The police , only doing their job , opened fire and 90 people were killed . |
28 | It is their job to know where new technological doors are opening , and when to recommend going through them . |
29 | The RAF can do it all and it is their job ( e ) Other types of ships should be drastically reduced |
30 | He argues that if other Americans were as good at their job as baseball players are at theirs , the country 's trade difficulties would be a thing of the past . |