Example sentences of "a job [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a job of the utmost precision , and even a large-scale blow-up might not reveal that it was not genuine . |
| 2 | You do a job to the best of your ability . |
| 3 | It is not a job for the frail . |
| 4 | But this has always been a job for the sociable . ’ |
| 5 | Christian growth and education has often been seen as a job for the church , which has robbed the home of its crucial importance for its shaping of Christian character . |
| 6 | The coastguard duties included patrolling paths at the top of high and sheer cliffs — not a job for the faint-hearted . |
| 7 | Building London 's ring water main is not a job for the fainthearted . |
| 8 | After that I was blacked by the quality schools , but I soon landed a job for the rest of the year with a cowboy outfit in Italy who needed a replacement teacher in a hurry . |
| 9 | This is n't a job for the bricklaying novice , however . |
| 10 | ‘ This is a job for the DGSE , or some other security agency . ’ |
| 11 | It was a common enough tragedy , but it was a job for the Juvenile Bureau not for him and the sooner one of their officers arrived the better . |
| 12 | TV criticism , initially a job for the plain man , became an important part of quality paper arts pages and attracted star journalists such as Clive James . |
| 13 | It 's not a job for the nervous . |
| 14 | er this is probably a job for the panel on worship . |
| 15 | It 's erm I 've got I mean I 've got a job for the first six weeks already set up with |
| 16 | I remember Yvonne saying something about being away on a job for the next few days . |
| 17 | And so the wages went up and down annually like as distinct from monthly , which was a bit of a job for the employers to adjust every month . |
| 18 | According to their rhetoric , public morals were now not merely a job for the criminal law , but for a wide spectrum of social agencies . |
| 19 | If predators do not oblige , the pests are picked off and squashed — not a job for the faint-hearted ! |
| 20 | That would be a job for the Metropolitan Police Laboratory when the mallet , carefully packed and with two identifying exhibit tags instead of one , reached the Biology Department later in the day . |
| 21 | Looking for a suspicious boat was clearly a job for the River Police , and they did it thoroughly . |
| 22 | Repairing gutters is not a job for the fainthearted since it involves working up a ladder for quite a long time . |
| 23 | Prison reformers say Britain 's first privatised jail will be too dangerous a job for the company planning to run it.A leading security firm based in the Central South region will provide the guards at the jail . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is a job for the flying squad . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's a job for the men — I 've warned you — get out from there . |
| 26 | Well you see and I 've also put in for a job for the the marina at Northampton which is another mental home . |
| 27 | If you do n't get a job , I will get a job for the time being and you want me to take some money off your bill , you can get rid of some of that rubbish out in that fucking shed , in the back of that van |
| 28 | There 's three hundred and eighty went for a job up the Hilly Home Where they have the spastic kids . |
| 29 | In 1989 , in a state with average AFDC payments , a single woman with two children who took a job at the minimum wage ( then $3.35 an hour ) would earn a paltry $33 more each month than if she did not work at all and stayed on welfare . |
| 30 | ‘ They also offered me a job at the end of it , but there were no strings attached to the scholarship . ’ |