Example sentences of "to get [adv prt] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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31 They want to get on with the job , and are afraid of what a former Archbishop of York , Stuart Blanch , has described as ‘ analysis paralysis ’ setting in .
32 I like to be left to get on with the job
33 The Ferret was never happy when anyone other than himself was examining a scene of crime and it seemed to Dalgliesh that his impatience to get on with the job came through the wall as a palpable force .
34 AI workers are , by and large , naive materialists and mechanists , and for them those are not positions to be justified , but simply assumptions that allow them to get on with the job of constructing mechanical analogues or simulations of ourselves , who are , in Minsky 's memorable phrase , ‘ meat machines ’ .
35 He wants to be left alone to get on with the job , including completing Knowsley 's ‘ positive futures ’ programme to develop a direct services system for supporting those in need living in the community .
36 it gives you more time to get on with the job of managing your business .
37 The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job .
38 Some argue for much greater administrative decentralization , to remove the ‘ Whitehall bottleneck ’ , and urge that central government gives more thought to the formulation of clearly defined policies so that local authorities can be safely left to get on with the job within a clear policy framework .
39 Ace also felt a twinge of sadness for the Colonel , but felt it best to get on with the job in hand .
40 Ideology apart , managers have to get on with the job of managing , maintaining society as a going concern , and upholding organisational goals with the cooperation of other members .
41 He wanted to get on with the job of examining the clothes and , he hoped , identifying the body , but he had another job to do first — to call on the River Police and give them such facts as he had .
42 Lucy had no intention of reverting to the former subject , so she said in a determined voice , ‘ I would like to get on with the job .
43 Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ?
44 That is why we have ensured , through our know-how funds and all the other means at our disposal , that we are providing economic advice and sound advice for training members of the former republics to get on with the job of economic reform .
45 Mind you , she asks a lot of questions which tend to drive you insane when you want to get on with the job , and sometimes I used words not heard in the best society .
46 All the strained confusions of the night are over , all the sleepless impatience to get on with the job .
47 It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job .
48 Mr Saville added : ‘ If they slap a CPO on the site , then it will be up to the councils to get on with the job of reclamation .
49 We have now to get on with the job of saving the plant . ’
50 We have now to get on with the job of saving the plant . ’
51 ‘ Now we 've got to get on with the job at Arsenal and try to get back .
52 Now it 's time to get on with the job . ’
53 Do you think there is an argument for finding natural teachers as opposed to set of people to get on with the job ?
54 Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have .
55 Two questions — how did you manage to get on with the people in this house ?
56 They had issued the caution , now they were anxious to get on with the questioning , and they only had six hours from the time of the caution in which to hold her .
57 So we will er if we may er not ask you to introduce your document we we 'd like to get on with the questioning .
58 ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’
59 But I fancy that England is content to get on with the war , and that things take a more practical turn at home .
60 It was time for us to get on with the climbing .
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