Example sentences of "a good job " in BNC.

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1 In fact , the day before the I Love Lucy St Patrick 's Day , she 'd been told of a good job with the British Council in the Gilbert Islands .
2 Eliot remarked in another regard , ‘ No association is free for the man who wants to do a good job , ’ for the ‘ religious ’ man not least , and for a Cohen most of all .
3 Their function now is to make a good job of delivering the railway services that the PTEs and sectors want to buy from them .
4 Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes .
5 ‘ My first job is to learn Saatchi 's activities and to do a good job of selling the consulting businesses , ’ he said , in a reference to the company 's previously announced plans to sell its management consultancy arm .
6 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 .
7 If an agent does a good job with the first one , and builds a successful relationship with the manager , there is no reason why that agent ca n't deal with all of a manager 's acts .
8 If you do n't do that efficiently then you are not doing a good job for the community .
9 Laing wanted to make such a good job of the London factory that the reverse would be the case — that the Americans would want to cross the Atlantic to inspect the exemplary way the British ran things .
10 In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined .
11 One example was of a graduate who enjoyed a good job with normal daytime hours .
12 ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed .
13 As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job .
14 And now I have a good job , one I like .
15 Other findings were that 67 per cent think standards will decline in the next few years if things carry on as they are and that 77 per cent agree teachers do a good job in spite of everything .
16 To its credit , Fimbra has done a good job weeding out some of the black sheep .
17 ‘ She 's doing a good job on sorting this Huerter thing , too .
18 That might encourage more young Britons to stay on at school in their quest for a good job .
19 Both do a good job , he says , but ‘ I would rather see more judgments out there in the market . ’
20 They are distracted by the glamour and excitement of drugs and gangs ; they get little discipline at home ; they fail to connect getting a good job with finishing high school .
21 ‘ It 's a good job the sale has fallen through .
22 ‘ Klepner did a good job . ’
23 A good job an ’ all … . ’
24 ‘ It 's a good job I saw you first , then ! ’
25 ‘ Left , left , I had a good job an' I left , ’ they chanted as they went .
26 It 's never been clear though , if you have a Conservative seat , say , in the West Midlands , whether people vote because they think Mrs Thatcher is doing a good job , or because they are worried about a local problem , or because Mrs McJones next door was helped by the sitting candidate over her rates problem !
27 I do n't agree with him ; I think you did a good job .
28 Nevertheless , it seems to me that more than a few Frenchwomen are carrying powerful foglamps , and are doing a good job of raging against the dying light .
29 ‘ He 's half the team , ’ said Mr Fenton of the injured England captain , ‘ but Brett Williams did a good job in his place . ’
30 So far the Finance Ministry has done a good job by letting off steam in a controlled and orderly way , but it is hard to stop the process of deflation once it has gained momentum .
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