Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] a [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 11 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The manager has got a difficult job . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A FORMER Darlington man has landed a top job with Grampian Health Board . |
| 16 | Stephenson said that ‘ the government has done a good job in policy development , without burdening business but with sufficient controls ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This man 's done a fabulous job . |
| 21 | Simon the tiler had done a good job . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Looking at it objectively , the shark had made a clean job of it . |