Example sentences of "they [verb] be make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 2 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 3 | Perhaps they 've been made redundant . |
| 4 | Mind , not everybody 's got the money to erm pay for jobs have they , today , if they 've been made redundant they have n't got the money . |
| 5 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 6 | Good god lad , so erm , she said oh I know I 've been naughty and I have , not neglecting him in a naut , you know , they 've been making sure he 's been alright |
| 7 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 8 | They had been made redundant involuntarily and had worked full-time in the factory in low-paid , unskilled manual jobs on the shopfloor . |
| 9 | These were not new problems , though they had been made worse by the rapid growth of population , industry and cities . |
| 10 | But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 . |
| 11 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 12 | They have been made possible in consumer markets by developments ( i ) in the study of demographics and statistics ; and ( ii ) in Information Technology applications . |
| 13 | When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses . |
| 14 | They have been made homeless with many put in camps all as part of what Serbs call Ethnic cleansing . |