Example sentences of "[to-vb] a job " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was convinced her 18-year-old son 's pop dreams would come to nothing and pressured him to accept a job offer from a bank . |
| 2 | But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year . |
| 3 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that most applicants are anxious to secure a job or move up the career ladder , the process is really two-way . |
| 5 | It is an exclusion from fundamental rights of citizenship — to walk the streets without harassment , to secure a job without discrimination , to express a cultural identity without stigma , to have a share in the exercise of political power . |
| 6 | He or she will hope to secure a job that involves the initiation of policies from the party 's programme . |
| 7 | Next , when you apply for the job ask the employer to provide a job description that will answer most of the questions . |
| 8 | Er er Madam Speaker er non-wage costs never get into employees wage packets but do make it more expensive for employers to provide a job . |
| 9 | Nowadays the holding of dances , raffles , and pub talks along with the fixture has pushed up the sums enormously , although if inflation and house prices are taken into account even £50,000 or over is hardly a fortune for a man who has to find a job and keep a family . |
| 10 | His remarks came as Labour employment spokesman , Mr Henry McLeish , denied reports that the party was considering replacing the automatic payment of welfare benefits with a policy which would require many unemployed either to find a job or to accept full-time training or higher education . |
| 11 | The review argues that Restart courses , under which the long-term unemployed are interviewed about their efforts to find a job , should be subject to benefit sanctions to widen take-up , ‘ especially among those too demotivated to volunteer ’ . |
| 12 | It was , doubtless , agreeable for Mary Smith to become more Mary Smith , but that process did not enable her to find a job or make a living . |
| 13 | In fact , his parents discouraged Gedge , especially when they suspected it was infringing on his studies and attempts to find a job . |
| 14 | It is easier to find a job when you are in work than out of it . |
| 15 | However , for the last 6 months or so he had ceased to make regular efforts to find a job . |
| 16 | Finally , after Green died , Dorothy Wordsworth helped Green 's son to find a job . |
| 17 | Fatalism is the order of the day — and if your best efforts have failed to find a job , it 's understandable that you might feel fatalistic . |
| 18 | With Uncle 's help we all struggled on after he died , and when I got a bit older and left school it was not possible for me to contemplate leaving home to find a job and a new life outside Baldersdale . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to find a job that I really love . ’ |
| 20 | Having developed such plant-specific skills , a worker will not be in a position to find a job of equivalent pay elsewhere , and so this factor , too , ‘ integrates ’ the worker into the plant , in the sense Mallet uses the term . |
| 21 | Ruth had been fortunate enough to find a job in Ilkley . |
| 22 | The blonde teenager , who had set her heart on becoming a hairdresser , was also upset at failing to find a job . |
| 23 | He was desperate to find a job . |
| 24 | There seemed nothing left for him to do but go back to London , provide Fiona with some trumped-up evidence of adultery by spending the night with a prostitute — something he had never done before — and try to find a job . |
| 25 | ‘ I need to find a job and support myself . |
| 26 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 27 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 28 | It restricts the mobility of workers and so keeps unemployment higher than it need be : people who own their homes are less willing to move to another area to find a job . |
| 29 | I wanted to find a job which was basic rather than peripheral . |
| 30 | I wanted to find a job which I believed would be secure , since my primary responsibility was , and remains to this day , the support of my family . |