Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] redundant " in BNC.
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| 1 | They too are all people who 'd been made redundant . |
| 2 | It is noteworthy that by 1976 , eight years after the original Pastoral Measure came into effect , almost 500 churches had been declared redundant by the Church Commissioners . |
| 3 | She took a taxi outside the station and the driver promptly launched into his life history : he had worked hard all his life for one of the big oil companies , inspecting petrol pumps all over Suffolk and had been made redundant in his early fifties with the very minimum of redundancy money . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up . |
| 6 | And so he had acquired an old-fashioned classical education , with gaps where teachers had been made redundant or classroom chaos had reigned . |
| 7 | While hand colouring was fully accepted as a compromise , and in fact supplied work to the legions of miniature painters that had been made redundant by the advent of photography , experiments continued to be made all over the world . |
| 8 | Some people had been made redundant four times , and , what was worse , they were almost proud of it . ’ |
| 9 | When Laplace , late in the eighteenth century , applied his nebular hypothesis to the problem , deliberately dispensing with concepts of design , it could look as if Newton 's God had been made redundant . |
| 10 | In the record company — the one division of the company which supported the rest — staff had been made redundant , yet money had been found to go on buying nightclubs , expand the empire . |
| 11 | They had been made redundant involuntarily and had worked full-time in the factory in low-paid , unskilled manual jobs on the shopfloor . |
| 12 | In 1990 , the European Court held that a 60-year-old man employed by an insurance company had been unlawfully discriminated against because when he had been made redundant his company pension scheme was deferred whereas a female member of the scheme could have drawn her pension immediately . |
| 13 | While hand colouring was fully accepted as a compromise , and in fact supplied work to the legions of miniature painters that had been made redundant by the advent of photography , experiments continued to be made all over the world . |
| 14 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 15 | By the end of 1986 about 70 per cent of the 27,600 miners employed by the state mining company COMIBOL had been made redundant as mines shut down . |
| 16 | By early May an estimated 80,000 civil servants had been made redundant . |
| 17 | Some 1,100 of BCCI 's 1,260 staff in the UK were given redundancy notices ; 80 per cent of the bank 's 480 employees in the UAE had been made redundant on Oct. 2 . |
| 18 | During the interval , eighty-eight had been made redundant , downgraded or fired from work . |
| 19 | Linda had her own part-time job helping out at Oxfam and listening to infants read at the nearby Primary School , so she had less time in fact than her husband , for Frank had been made redundant from his job in electronics in October . |
| 20 | John had been made redundant and their house was repossessed . |
| 21 | He said he had been made redundant . |
| 22 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |
| 23 | Last night , the acting convener , Tommy Gorman , said the workforce was disgusted at the way in which the 67 men who had been made redundant had been treated and the fact they would receive the minimum statutory payoffs . |
| 24 | Jackson had been made redundant as a result of a drastic decline in orders and Turner 's company had gone into liquidation . |
| 25 | In the 1960s the emphasis was on labour-intensive industries such as textiles and consumer electronics to employ the thousands of workers who had been left redundant by the withdrawal of the British . |