Example sentences of "[noun] for the job [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very few moments later , Mala and I had firm hold of the contract for the job and were taking our leave of a decidedly miffed Emissary . |
| 2 | It is only common sense that an interviewer will be interested in a candidate who actually shows some enthusiasm for the job and the firm . |
| 3 | Twenty years in the House still had n't dampened his extraordinary enthusiasm for the job and his not unappealing surprise that he should actually be there . |
| 4 | The Thinkpad was chosen as the best machine for the job because it is pen-based , has high memory capacity — 12Mb — a 120Mb disk drive and a parallel port-based sound device . |
| 5 | Today Wilkinson hit back , explaining that he had picked the best team for the job and claiming his selection was vindicated by a 3–0 win . |
| 6 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 7 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’ |
| 8 | The fee for permission — not writing , or speaking , or doing anything mildly useful — was £10,000 , £2,000 a word , a rate for the job that , I can now reveal , not even the NSS matches . |
| 9 | He was assessed as only able to work at 50 per cent of the rate for the job and only half his wages were paid under the scheme . |
| 10 | A fair rate for the job and a standard working week — answer me that ! ’ |
| 11 | Furthermore , training schemes do not produce the skills or the qualifications for the jobs that are needed in Britain at this time . |
| 12 | Yet on the other hand , new employers in offices on the Isle of Dogs are not required to take on any local people or train people for the jobs that are on offer . |
| 13 | Is it one of the new quangos or is it a S F R A , a self financing regulatory authority that has powers to issues and regulations and charge people for the job that it then does . |
| 14 | I want the best people for the job and it if means I got ta pay one or two thousand more |
| 15 | The managing director is paid top market rates for the job but the dynamic American parent company has given him just one warning : ‘ If your employees strike , you 're fired . ’ |
| 16 | The plaintiff 's solicitors must make regular checks ( and it is a good idea for the defendant 's insurers and solicitors to do the same ) on the wage rates at regular intervals , and not only on the rates for the job that the plaintiff would have been doing but the rate for any job into which he might have been promoted but for the accident . |
| 17 | The Bill is the right Bill for the job and I commend it to the House . |
| 18 | He and this other chap , a rather nice English fellow called Theo Sykes , each had their own candidate for the job when the previous master , Lorimer , retired . |
| 19 | It could also be that there is a general deficiency of demand for labour throughout the economy , in which case the involuntarily unemployed workers will face fierce competition for the jobs that do become available . |
| 20 | But he said : ‘ The fans may not think Ian 's the best man for the job but if they lay off him for a bit then he might get it right for them . ’ |
| 21 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 22 | Barry has always been the best man for the job and we 're going to continue our partnership . ’ |
| 23 | And WHO , pray , is the man for the job if not Wilko ? |
| 24 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 25 | ‘ Luke Eliot picked the right man for the job when he asked Shildon , ’ said Wainfleet gesturing to the barman for refills . |
| 26 | When you had too many men for the jobs that needed doing , did the men get paid ? |
| 27 | Can I just make a point this thing about salary because I know we ca n't people we want at the salary and all the rest of it but then there 's , if we 're go if that 's the s if we 're now saying that that 's the salary for the job and there 's no no way in my conscience rests clear really that we should just pay that to one person |
| 28 | If the hon. Gentleman does not think that that is a proper contribution to the health service or a proper qualification for the job that she holds , I am very surprised indeed . |
| 29 | Both are valid tools for the job but only one is appropriate at any given time . |
| 30 | ‘ His junior record was only fair ’ , recalls Gottfried , ‘ but he had a lot of the tools for the job and he was willing to learn and to put in the time . ’ |