Example sentences of "do a [adj] job [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do a grand job of sitting still . ’ |
| 2 | The changing role of women has often in practice meant that women go out to work and still do a full-time job in the home . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Do you find that women 's schools do a better job of educating women than mixed schools ? |
| 6 | ‘ Just because I do a good job for her business does not mean that I wish to sleep with her . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ No , I always do a good job for them . ’ |
| 8 | Scientists may be more slipshod than they care to admit about replication and falsification ; Broad and Wade do a good job of proving that . |
| 9 | They point out that well known communication graphic techniques such as pie charts often do a good job of summarising data but are of little use as exploratory tools since they reveal little about their structure . |
| 10 | ‘ If you do a good job of the hiring , nobody gets fired , ’ Mandy muttered under her breath . |
| 11 | Other findings were that 67 per cent think standards will decline in the next few years if things carry on as they are and that 77 per cent agree teachers do a good job in spite of everything . |
| 12 | They do a good job in the House , under the Serjeant at Arms . |
| 13 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
| 14 | If you 're going to strip a house anyway why do a neat job on the lock first ? |
| 15 | This Is My Life begins with a hint of promise as Kavner rushes round the set like an uncontrolled greyhound , Hoffmann and Mathis do a neat job of tight-lipped anger and all concerned knock six mental bells out of each other at every turn . |
| 16 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 17 | Pointing to the isolation and emotional stresses of the parish priest , they will add something along the lines that all do a valiant job in the face of overwhelming odds . |
| 18 | They do a valuable job in alerting the Government and local social security offices to need in individual areas . |
| 19 | Like discs , they do a cleaner job in dry than in wet conditions . |