Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] job [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of the new Saturday l25mph High Speed Train service from Swansea to Pembroke provided a new job for the train guard : he had to leap out at Manorbier to open the crossing gates , wait for the train to clear the crossing , close them , and then walk seven coach lengths to give the driver the right away . |
| 2 | SUSAN Finley had to be as tough as nails to secure a top job aboard a luxury cruise liner . |
| 3 | He found a new job at the ‘ people 's own ’ Narva light-bulb factory in Friedrichshain . |
| 4 | The proportion of people initially becoming unemployed as a result of the coming to an end of a temporary job who found a new job within 10 months of initial registration was not markedly different from the proportion applying to the total sample , even after taking age into account . |
| 5 | An even clearer result was that , of those who had entered into unemployment because a temporary job had come to an end and who found a new job within 10 months , nearly twice as many ( 44 per cent ) took temporary jobs as did the generality of those finding work ( 25 per cent ) [ see Table 4.6 ] . |
| 6 | Mr Smith said : ‘ People should enjoy , as a right of citizenship and not as a privilege of wealth , the opportunity of a good education , the chance to find a decent job with decent pay , the opportunity to buy or rent a decent home . |
| 7 | This suggests that in more favourable employment conditions it is easier to find a permanent job from which to continue one 's job search — in other words , that the search could take place from a more secure base . |
| 8 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 9 | He he has a similar job at another UK public company was all Farnell would say . |
| 10 | She now has a similar job in a related field . |
| 11 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , who has a full-time job as Governor of the Bank of England in addition to being Lord Lieutenant of Kent , sits on an estate of 2,400 acres . |
| 12 | I do not envy his successor , because he has a hard job in trying to follow him . |
| 13 | Eurotunnel co-chairman Alastair Morton has a difficult job on his hands but he has shown he can handle it . |
| 14 | If you occupied a senior position , you may not be under an immediate duty to accept an alternative job of an inferior status . |
| 15 | Presentation of speakers and occasions to present the case are highlights of such work , but around all such events the public relations officer has an hourly job of relating to the media what is happening in the argument and what the various leaders are saying and thinking . |
| 16 | The Army has done a grand job of work in the initial stages of rehabilitation , and without its aid progress would have been far slower . |
| 17 | ‘ Jim Smith has done a tremendous job at Porstmouth , ’ says Lyall , ‘ They play quick-pass football and any team who play the ball early can always create space . |
| 18 | Some of us will believe that we have done a good job during that period . |
| 19 | As it is , Vox have done a good job of producing a classic guitar with a '90s feel and sound . |
| 20 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 21 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |
| 22 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
| 23 | But political pundits agree Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP . |
| 24 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 25 | Seems you 've done a good job with our Crilly . ’ |
| 26 | Geoff has done a good job on it . |
| 27 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm a great disciplinarian , I 'm tough on politeness and all that , but at the end of the day he 's done a good job on himself . |
| 29 | Mark reckons they 've done a good job on the water have they ? |
| 30 | According to Peter Sommer , a computer forensics expert , the commission has done a good job in proposing new legislation which is workable and fits well with other parts of the law . |