Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 2 | Table 2.11 shows that inability to find a permanent job remained the most frequent reason given by young people for taking temporary work . |
| 3 | ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’ |
| 4 | I am not sure who is more demoralised by that — the local people , who frequently complain that they do not get a quick response when they need help , or the local police , who attend the crime in an attempt to do the good job that they intended when they entered the police force , knowing that they are likely to be pulled in all directions to answer calls on a blue line that has been pulled far too thin by the Government 's demands . |
| 5 | They usually deal with the situation in one of two ways — they patronise you and try to take control on the assumption that you must need their guidance to do a decent job ; or they undermine you by making obscene remarks and deliberately causing problems . |
| 6 | Speed did a fine job just modelling his Asics sportswear , Kelly played great , Dorigo played really well . |
| 7 | The MBA do a superlative job maintaining these simple buildings , and set out a clear set of guidelines for their useage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Inland Revenue does a difficult job in difficult circumstances extremely well . |
| 10 | For burying , a long-boarded general-purpose or lea plough does the cleanest job , turning up an unbroken , shiny furrow . |
| 11 | My Committee has an important job to do . |
| 12 | You can buy a strong slim trowel to do the same job and there are several on the market . |
| 13 | The make-up did a terrific job , but could n't get rid of the two deep creases that ran from the corners of her mouth to her jawline , or the network of lines on her brow . |
| 14 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
| 15 | It was hard for an English girl to get a secretarial job in New York these days — she had been lucky in getting her work permit before the restrictions were so stringent — but maybe one day the conditions would change and there would be more work permits available . |
| 16 | Well for slings , getting bags out of the hold see the whole job was so interesting , when you were doing these jobs that was interesting all the time . |
| 17 | Stef has a good job : she can support herself . |
| 18 | ‘ My husband has a new job but he is unable to start work because he can not leave Oman . |
| 19 | So the point I 'm trying to make is that you ca n't rely on one product to do the whole job . |
| 20 | At present he was with a party of police officers visiting the United States and Inspector Blakelock was totally in charge doing the two jobs , not only receiving the exhibits , making out the register of court attendances and preparing the statistics , but discussing the cases with the detective in charge , explaining what the Laboratory could hope to do , rejecting those cases where the scientists could n't help , and checking that the final statements for the court were complete . |
| 21 | People like myself , would n't have had the bottle , would n't have dreamed of coming up here if it had n't been for the good work of people like Mike and Harry , who in my opinion do a superb job in training me , you , all of us in this union . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , the General did a fine job , ’ said Devlin . |
| 23 | ‘ I told him — my husband had a hard job , he was n't working for a time . |
| 24 | His move secures the 14 jobs at the site and keeps the famous A3 landmark alive . |
| 25 | The client is right very often , but sometimes can be demonstrably wrong — there is not enough money to do a proper job , or the medium reaches the wrong target audience . |
| 26 | Mr Smith said : ‘ People should enjoy , as a right of citizenship and not as a privilege of wealth , the opportunity of a good education , the chance to find a decent job with decent pay , the opportunity to buy or rent a decent home . |
| 27 | Might n't a European Treaty Organisation , either in NATO or in place of it , be able one day to do the protection-cum-deterrence job that America does today ? |
| 28 | Ben Lowe was the only person doing a specific job for News on Sunday who demanded a competitive interview . |
| 29 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 30 | There were three instances of the wife finding an off-farm job just ‘ to keep herself busy ’ . |