Example sentences of "they [verb] be made [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 Perhaps they 've been made redundant .
3 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 .
4 One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors .
5 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 .
6 They had been made redundant involuntarily and had worked full-time in the factory in low-paid , unskilled manual jobs on the shopfloor .
7 These were not new problems , though they had been made worse by the rapid growth of population , industry and cities .
8 But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 .
9 Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities .
10 They have been made possible in consumer markets by developments ( i ) in the study of demographics and statistics ; and ( ii ) in Information Technology applications .
11 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 .
12 They have been made homeless with many put in camps all as part of what Serbs call Ethnic cleansing .
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