Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] job [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 2.11 shows that inability to find a permanent job remained the most frequent reason given by young people for taking temporary work . |
| 2 | Each of the various hand movements has a specific job to do , determined by range , angle , position and target . |
| 3 | ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’ |
| 4 | Each of the participating agencies has a different job to do , a different area of activity , and different interests and concerns . |
| 5 | The Batband choose this moment to strike up with a counter attraction , and our Jeremy has a hard job making himself heard . |
| 6 | The motives for seeking office are partly that the life of a backbench MP soon becomes unsatisfactory and offers so little scope for achievement , for registering even the smallest impact on a restricted area of.public life , that the average MP looks with envy on any minister who has a positive job to perform , however limited the field . |
| 7 | It shows someone in obvious mental distress and gives a strong message that the nurse has a positive job to do . |
| 8 | It still has an enormous job to do . |
| 9 | My Committee has an important job to do . |
| 10 | Milne — who made a brief appearance in the game against Wombats — has done a grand job getting sponsorship from , among others , Royal Mail Scotland , while the luminaries he has persuaded to play include Roger Baird , Finlay Calder , Jim Calder , Jim Aitken , Euan Kennedy , Alan Tomes and Jim Renwick . |
| 11 | To its credit , Fimbra has done a good job weeding out some of the black sheep . |
| 12 | Someone who says he 's ‘ held one in his hand ’ , thinks that Intel has done a good job hyping up the industry over the P5 without having much chance of delivering its promises for some time to come . |
| 13 | Your principles and hard held prejudices will be respected if for no other reason than one of simple commercial sense : you probably would n't do a good job creating the advertisement even if you tried , because you actively disbelieve in the product or proposition . |
| 14 | Many of those who take Christmas jobs in retail stores are , it was suggested , married women who are explicitly seeking a short-term job to help meet the extra expenses incurred at that time of the year . |
| 15 | ‘ I have to start rehearsal on Monday , I 've got a new job to go back to . ’ |
| 16 | He 's got a new job working on |
| 17 | In her famed speech on election night 1987 , as she rallied her party troops on the steps of Party Headquarters not to rest on their laurels but to continue the fight ( they were to be allowed one night of ‘ marvellous partying ’ but must start back the next day with renewed vigour ) , she announced that ‘ we 've got a big job to do in some of those inner cities … and politically , we 've got to get back in there — we want to win those too ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ But I 've got a little job to do . |
| 19 | He 's just got a little job to do . |
| 20 | Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ . |
| 21 | Women who enjoy housework but have had a full-time job say that they look forward to having time to do things like get the carpet shampooed or make new curtains without someone else being in the way . |
| 22 | By then , Westminster had merged with National Provincial and Wanless was offered a new job working in market intelligence for another King 's graduate , David Lomax . |
| 23 | Hope fed her nosiness and kept her plodding beside Midnight , who 'd had an awkward job swinging the box on to his shoulder . |
| 24 | Yeah you 've got an awful job to see |
| 25 | ‘ I think for this department it 's important that we work as a team and we all get great satisfaction from seeing a complex job completed . ’ |
| 26 | The only survivor I interviewed who had not married and who had always worked , told me that she had only once been unemployed , for a period of 6 months , when she got a temporary job selling insurance . |
| 27 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 28 | Well you do get aeriated though when you 're trying to do a new job do n't you ? |
| 29 | Someone who has acquired skills in early life for a job involving considerable strength and mobility will be more handicapped in finding work if they become wheelchair-bound than someone similarly afflicted who has qualifications and experience in a field that allows them to do a sedentary job demanding intellectual skills . |
| 30 | After all , the clients ' interest is merely in getting an effective job done for their money . |