Example sentences of "job for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cricket : Fletcher 's ‘ job for life ’ offer by Essex |
| 2 | ESSEX are prepared to offer former England captain Keith Fletcher ‘ a job for life ’ in an attempt to persuade him not to become the next England team manager . |
| 3 | ‘ He has his roots here , however , and has a job for life with us . |
| 4 | ‘ You were demonstrating in support of the other lecturers ' right to a job for life ? ’ |
| 5 | During the past decade , it has become increasingly clear that few people can count on having a job for life . |
| 6 | It is unlikely that people training for work today will be prepared for a job for life . |
| 7 | While no one has any right to walk straight into a well-paid job for life , it is n't just the out-of-work graduates that suffer . |
| 8 | Just as you think you have a job for life , the magazine folds . |
| 9 | What a shame that we did n't — or could n't — see more of the role that the Queen actively plays in British politics in the television portrait filmed to mark her 40 years in what she memorably described as a ‘ job for life ’ . |
| 10 | GEORGE GRAHAM last night startled Arsenal by admitting he was nowhere near a job for life at Highbury . |
| 11 | And manager Graham confessed : ‘ In football , there is no such thing as a job for life . |
| 12 | The state is better able to protect the corporate ‘ grass ’ because he ( or she ) could be guaranteed a job for life as a reward for information leading to conviction for a serious corporate crime . |
| 13 | It was a job for life . |
| 14 | It 's the sort of place where people go for a job for life . |
| 15 | " Stay in Bideford — and you can have a job for life , " my editor generously told me . |
| 16 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 17 | Accustomed to having a job for life , they had no experience of writing grant applications and working under the pressure of uncertain funding . |
| 18 | He thought he 'd got a job for life when he got his old mate Humphrey in as master — they were at school together , you know — but all that 's backfired pretty badly . |
| 19 | ‘ The outside world perceived it as ‘ a job for life ’ , but people inside know it means you have EMPLOYMENT as long as you like . |
| 20 | And not everyone is hired into a ‘ job for life ’ ( or ‘ as long as he wishes ’ ) . |
| 21 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 22 | Even now that she had been made a director of the firm , Laura was well aware that it did n't mean that she had a job for life . |
| 23 | Fiveyear , renewable contracts for all ranks would still mean good officers being in the job for life but should also mean an end to lazy time-servers . |
| 24 | That corrosive fear has now spread through industries and professions who once felt that if they did n't have the fabled ‘ job for life ’ , they could at least be assured of adequate warning of impending unemployment , reasonable compensation , a decent level of benefit linked to their final salary , and a realistic chance of a fresh start with another company . |
| 25 | Railway employment has , for the individual , been marked by great stability — it has traditionally been ‘ a job for life ’ . |
| 26 | Rover 's 35,000-strong workforce votes today on whether to accept Japanese-style working practices that will virtually guarantee them jobs for life . |
| 27 | ‘ You mean , they 've got jobs for life ? ’ he said . |
| 28 | From a wider perspective , the restless tides that govern world trade and industry make plant closures as well as new plant openings inevitable and healthy , and only the neanderthals that believe that it is management 's function to provide jobs for life , and the workers ' function to make management 's life as hard as possible would argue otherwise . |
| 29 | ‘ We are not looking for jobs for life , just a sensible arrangement , ’ he said . |
| 30 | If workers are given jobs for life or if their wages are linked to age and seniority does this not make for a much less flexible labour market ? |