Example sentences of "[adj] staff [modal v] lose their " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE than 600 of Northern Ireland Electricity 's 3,750 staff could lose their jobs as a result of privatisation , a leading economist claimed today . |
| 2 | It had hoped that under 100 of its 360 staff would lose their jobs , hoped that many would stay in work as employees of Kontrax 's 15 dealers , which were wholly-owned but were to have been sold off as franchises under the scheme . |
| 3 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 4 | Forty nurses and 30 other staff will lose their jobs at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury , Bucks . |
| 5 | Most academic teaching posts in universities ( but not public sector higher education ) have traditionally been offered on a ‘ tenured ’ basis , so that academic staff can lose their job only on grounds of professional misconduct ( and not on such grounds as redundancy or financial exigency ) . |