Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a [adj] job [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you find that women 's schools do a better job of educating women than mixed schools ? |
| 2 | ‘ The fans did a magnificent job for us tonight , and this result will keep the city buzzing for another eight days . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Bean , 29 , of Glen Road , Great Sutton , said : ‘ The lads did a great job for us . ’ |
| 4 | SUSAN Finley had to be as tough as nails to secure a top job aboard a luxury cruise liner . |
| 5 | British , Anglo-Indians and Indians did a splendid job in receiving us . |
| 6 | As a result of the increased relative importance of part-time farming and farm work , many individuals seek a second job in manufacturing or services . |
| 7 | He would need all his diplomatic skills to do a similar job in South Africa . |
| 8 | TRYING to assess the impact of what even Norman Lamont admitted were fairly ‘ arcane ’ tax reforms proved a difficult job for the City yesterday . |
| 9 | The ladies did a marvellous job of feeding the group with their Bar-B-Que - a big thank you ladies - and Russell Mulford was on hand to record some of the work in pictures . |
| 10 | On the way back to Harwich , the newspapers did a marvellous job of keeping my mind off things , and it was only on the last leg of the journey that the butterflies started to flutter again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With Prime Minister 's Question Time at last over , those of us waiting to catch the Parkinson statement now found it had been further held up while one of the defence ministers made a laborious job of unwrapping the Ministry of Defence 's Christmas present for the navy — three new frigates . |
| 13 | As regards ‘ imperial greatness ’ or ‘ world power status ’ , the Tories made a brave job of trying to patch this up after Suez but in the early '60s Labour leaders were able to ridicule the so-called ‘ independent British deterrent ’ which had run into the now familiar conflict between resources available and military pretensions ; the attempted re-orientation of British trade towards Europe was ignominiously thwarted by the rejection of Macmillan 's application for EEC membership ; the process of ‘ decolonisation ’ was becoming increasingly uncontrollable and chaotic as many British-established federations of post-colonial states fell apart . |
| 14 | Your hired bullies did a good job on poor Joe Hyde last night … " |
| 15 | The nuns did a wonderful job on him , after his mother died . |
| 16 | Ultra-violet light sterilisers perform a similar job to ozone without so many possible side effects . |