Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] job " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need to pay in advance for the work even if you are asked to do so ; you may be in an awkward position if the firm ceases to trade without having completed the job . |
| 2 | Leafing through the results of 13 years work — editor Lesley Brown and 25 assisstant editors have just completed the job of updating the shorter Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 3 | It is possible , in response to these apparent counter-examples to a context-independent notion of linguistic competence , simply to retreat : the rules can be left unconstrained and allowed to generate unacceptable sentences , and a performance theory of pragmatics assigned the job of filtering out the acceptable sentences . |
| 4 | The system I would like to see is solicitors being given the job of approving up to £500 of legal aid work , with spot checks on quality , taking off any who are found to have abused it . ’ |
| 5 | If Moxon , still young in captaincy terms , were to be given the job there would be a strong argument in favour of a team manager and as Illingworth , perhaps wisely , has rejected one offer to return ( from Leicestershire ) Yorkshire might look at another native son who has , from all accounts , done an excellent job in his first year of managment at Somerset , Jack Birkenshaw . |
| 6 | One way of evading restrictions was to find sinecure posts for good players ; one man was given the job of checking the advertising posters for the club , though the most common trick was for club directors , who were often substantial employers , to find part-time or simply bogus jobs for which payment was made . |
| 7 | That may be why Mr Houghton has given the job of turning round the kitchenware business to Richard Dulude . |
| 8 | Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , the deputy secretary of state who has been given the job of co-ordinating America 's help for Eastern Europe , was told by Congress that the money the administration has in mind is too modest , but that its ideas about who should control the distribution of this money are immodest . |
| 9 | TSEMI was given the job of producing an alternative to the ideas of the state planning agency , Gosplan . |
| 10 | The EUROMET project , with a budget of 400,000 ecus ( $480,000 ) , has been given the job of building an EC meteorite mountain , and teams of hardy Euro-researchers are already out scavenging . |
| 11 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 12 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 13 | It was not until James Watt , instrument maker at Glasgow University , was given the job of repairing a model Newcomen steam engine , that a major breakthrough was made in the business of powering up the early beginnings of the industrial world . |
| 14 | The wrong person has been given the job |
| 15 | So centre-half Jack Butler was given the job of staying by the penalty area to break down opposing attacks , helped by the full-backs marking opposing wingers and the wing-halves the opposing inside-forwards . |
| 16 | Four working groups were given the job of providing negotiators with scientific and technical information . |
| 17 | Instead of letting the accounts department handle it , we 've given the job to someone who enjoys dealing with people . |
| 18 | Was it Dominic 's fault that he had been given the job she wanted so badly ? |
| 19 | Jonadab questioned the waggoner 's lad , who had been given the job of keeping an eye on the horse . |
| 20 | I introduced myself and was given the job of knitting a lot of maroon cardigans for stock . |
| 21 | The landlord of the inn which Ernest visited when his mother and his wife became too much for him knew of a coffee-house in the town which needed a kitchenmaid , and because he put in a good word for her , Ruth was given the job without references . |
| 22 | As the first businessman to be given the job , his £125,000 salary could reach £167,000 with bonuses . |
| 23 | It was his second consecutive penalty miss and Norwich 's third out of four this season , and Walker said afterwards the Welsh international would not be given the job in future . |
| 24 | Even the Arabs in the Ministry of Health office in the hospital had n't really been briefed , and the poor man who was given the job of meeting our needs nearly had a heart attack when I showed him a copy of the list I had sent out to his head office weeks ago . |
| 25 | I was given the job of going to fetch the agent , but Dad offered to go and so I went with him . |
| 26 | George was given the job of designing these vehicles using a two-cylinder , horizontally opposed , 1,200cc motor normally fitted to the Standard Bristol motorcycle . |
| 27 | And he will be one of the players given the job of keeping out the twin threat of Frenchman Eric Cantona and Lee Chapman . |
| 28 | He met Diana in 1988 when he was given the job of coaching Prince William in horsemanship . |
| 29 | At Key Biscayne , a week before he expected to be competing in the doubles against Czechoslovakia in their Davis Cup quarter finals , he even started outlining some of the changes he would make should he be given the job . |
| 30 | Jimmy Davidson , coach to the highly successful Ulster side , was given the job and everybody expected serious improvement . |