Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [art] [adj] job " in BNC.

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1 She thinks the Board has done a good job and what would it be replaced with ?
2 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 .
3 Henson has done a lovely job of placing his famous characters in the novel 's context while never letting us forget that this is meant to be a huge extravaganza .
4 The practical question which this paper also addresses is ‘ how can one tell when and whether a lawyer has done a good job ? ’ .
5 " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said .
6 Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen .
7 Well nobody 's mentioned the Queen and I think the Queen 's done an excellent job !
8 The Council have done a wonderful job in constructing existing pedestrian/cycle paths such as the Longniddry — Haddington path , which seem to be very successful in terms of use .
9 That lady 's got ta big job doing that !
10 Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community .
11 And , and that , cos tha , cos she has n't got her husband anymore , her husband 's got a good job like , getting well into , something like and he 's got , got loads of money !
12 In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes .
13 The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation .
14 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 .
15 The manager has got a difficult job .
16 Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case .
17 A FORMER Darlington man has landed a top job with Grampian Health Board .
18 Stephenson said that ‘ the government has done a good job in policy development , without burdening business but with sufficient controls ’ .
19 It is entitled ’ Myth of the tax rebels ’ and it says : ’ Over the last decade the Government has done a better job of blowing local authorities to smithereens than Guy Fawkes .
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 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 .
22 This man 's done a fabulous job .
23 Simon the tiler had done a good job .
24 Me dad had got a decent job for them times , you know he , I think he got thirty bob a week which was a lot of money .
25 Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today .
26 That publisher had done a good job , but I did n't feel that it would really be geared to the sort of mass market that I wanted to reach .
27 Yes , we 've got some good experienced players here and we 're not really just relying on the youngsters , but the youngsters who have come through this year have done an excellent job .
28 erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate .
29 Looking at it objectively , the shark had made a clean job of it .
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