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 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Some of us will believe that we have done a good job during that period . |
| 17 | As it is , Vox have done a good job of producing a classic guitar with a '90s feel and sound . |
| 18 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 19 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |
| 20 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
| 21 | But political pundits agree Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Seems you 've done a good job with our Crilly . ’ |
| 24 | Geoff has done a good job on it . |
| 25 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Mark reckons they 've done a good job on the water have they ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Stephenson said that ‘ the government has done a good job in policy development , without burdening business but with sufficient controls ’ . |
| 30 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |