Example sentences of "job for the boys " in BNC.
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| 1 | He use of it was scarcely unprecedented : ‘ jobs for the boys ’ , Tory MPs had cried as Harold Wilson infiltrated another trades union general secretary or a congenial academic on to the board of one or another of the great national institutions in his gift . |
| 2 | The Open Door programme Jobs for the Boys ? |
| 3 | Jobs for the Boys ? talked to women engineers in various disciplines . |
| 4 | Fewer jobs for the boys |
| 5 | The crusading Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser assails this almost weekly for its alleged distribution of ‘ jobs for the boys ’ — and girls , many from the councillors ' own families . |
| 6 | Editing awards : case of jobs for the boys ? |
| 7 | It smacks of jobs for the boys . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is always talking about jobs for the boys . |
| 9 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 10 | Jobs for the boys it was . |
| 11 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 12 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 13 | A MONKLANDS regional Labour councillor said yesterday that he has proof to back up allegations of ‘ jobs for the boys ’ in Monklands District Council . |
| 14 | Councillor John Murphy told The Scotsman last week that he had proof to back up ‘ jobs for the boys ’ claims in Monklands . |
| 15 | The councillor , who also spoke out to the local newspaper to counter what he said were council leader Jim Brooks ' unfounded assertions that jobs for the boys claims were simply smears , also called on other party members in the area to step forward publicly with any information they had on malpractice . |
| 16 | Council worker suspended over ‘ jobs for the boys ’ claim |
| 17 | A STRATHCLYDE regional councillor has been suspended from his job as a caretaker with Monklands District Council for his claims that he has proof to back up ‘ jobs for the boys ’ allegations . |