Example sentences of "[noun sg] do a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Speed did a fine job just modelling his Asics sportswear , Kelly played great , Dorigo played really well . |
| 3 | The MBA do a superlative job maintaining these simple buildings , and set out a clear set of guidelines for their useage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Inland Revenue does a difficult job in difficult circumstances extremely well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , the General did a fine job , ’ said Devlin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ben Lowe was the only person doing a specific job for News on Sunday who demanded a competitive interview . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After the rescue , Mr Darling , a former editor of the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough , said : ‘ The crew did a tremendous job . ’ |
| 13 | The crew did a magnificent job . ’ |
| 14 | The crew did a magnificent job . ’ |
| 15 | As we saw in Chapter III , that a person does a particular job , lives in a particular town or is a vegetarian is usually regarded as a contingent fact about them . |
| 16 | Erm did you work in the kitchen doing a different job than you were doing ? |
| 17 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 18 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 19 | It is up to local authorities , but I believe the extra grant , the extra spending permission , means that a good quality education can be delivered to children in Wales er without it in any way being jeopardised by these proposals and I would illustrate later on in my speech that local government does have considerable flexibility to spend wisely and well and it has resources at its disposal to do a good job . |
| 20 | With these comfort-orientated suspension settings , the steering does a serviceable job , without the slight nervousness of the stiffer S. |
| 21 | However things turn out , try to reflect the mood of the scene by the pace of the cutting of your shots : if the children are quiet and thoughtful , the shots can be held a little longer than if they are lively and excited ( provided that the adult does a good job of filling in the gaps in the action ) . |
| 22 | ( b ) Not many of us have the necessary expertise or inclination to do a good job . |
| 23 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 24 | You quickly get past the point of worrying that there are no guitars here , Phil Ramone and the orchestra do a superb job of keeping the arrangements crisp and fresh , and the strings never overwhelm the singer , even when she is at her most whispering , as in the Marilyn vehicle ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ and amidst the tragic melancholy of ‘ Gloomy Sunday ’ . |
| 25 | Although the Secretary of State knows nothing about the Bill , he knows the man who does , and that man does a good job . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) has being doing a first-class job on the Committee . |
| 27 | sgt wilko does a remarkable job — as for my constant hyping of frank — see that as norw. patriotism — i do not value wilko out from his ( non- ) use of frank — managing a club is a lot more than that … |
| 28 | Your camcorder 's microphone will no doubt do a first-rate job of picking up the general sound atmosphere , or ambience . |
| 29 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 30 | Age discrimination in the field of employment occurs when people are judged not by their ability to do a particular job but by their age . |