Example sentences of "not [verb] a [adj] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did not make a great job of that , did I ? ’ he asked . |
| 2 | They were also the most likely to say Dad would not make a good job of being a housewife and should be out at work ( 57pc pc compared to 38pc ) . |
| 3 | Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) . |
| 4 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 5 | Of those temporary workers who did not want a permanent job , nearly half ( 47 per cent ) had been economically inactive one year previously , and less than two per cent had been unemployed . |
| 6 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 7 | Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job . |
| 8 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 9 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The roads are excellent in Libya so you do not need a four-wheel-drive job , and there is certainly no shortage of petrol . ’ |
| 11 | On the other hand , for women not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given , and a considerably smaller share said they were working on a temporary basis because permanent work was not available . |
| 12 | Agency workers , too , were more likely to give not wanting a permanent job as their reason for working on a temporary basis . |
| 13 | For people over pension age on the other hand , not wanting a permanent job was the most common reason . |
| 14 | For women , on the other hand , not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given ( 37 per cent ) . |
| 15 | In each of these cases , the proportion of temporary workers who could be described as " voluntary " temporary workers ( i.e. not wanting a permanent job ) was much higher than the proportion who could be described as " involuntary " ( i.e. unable to get a permanent job ) . |
| 16 | With all the work she had to do my mother could not do a sloppy job . |
| 17 | The factual information may have a place later on in the essay but as it is used here , as an introduction , it does not do a useful job . |
| 18 | I can not do a good job from a chair on a table ! |
| 19 | Men such as Syd obviously took a great deal of pride in their work — woe betide a fireman or fitter who did not do a good job ! |
| 20 | Dan had not had a proper job for over ten years . |
| 21 | One in five adults could not understand a simple job advert or subtract £17.89 from £20 to calculate the change from a shopping bill . |
| 22 | Whether they value their police service enough or not and whether it needs more money or not to do a good job or whether the authorities should take a look at how it is being run . |
| 23 | And , at 62 , Joe has still not found a new job . |
| 24 | If you do n't do that efficiently then you are not doing a good job for the community . |
| 25 | If they do it too much then the farrier 's not doing a good job |
| 26 | So let's sweep aside this idea of appointees because the Home Secretary of the day and his predecessor and the Home Office and the inspectorate feel that the police authorities are not doing a proper job , give them the tools to do a pres proper job . |
| 27 | A classic example of good housekeeping which has made Cambridge a authority in the region and beyond and one that even members of the conservative government have occasionally , through gritted teeth they 're not doing a bad job , damn them and that means that the are going to think to have some of those , if you like , very good housekeeping back to the citizens who have been paying the bills over the years . |
| 28 | If women are refused credit because of some credit-worthiness factor ( say , not having a full-time job ) which applies more often to them than to men , that is lawful only if that credit-worthiness factor can be shown to be a justifiable reason for withholding credit regardless of the sex of the applicant . |
| 29 | I started nagging him about money , about not having a proper job and no guts to get one … |
| 30 | My wife used to say , Can you not get a proper job . |