Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] redundant " in BNC.

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1 In Ariel ( 15 ) a miner who has been made redundant heads south to Helsinki and falls in love .
2 In it , a miner who has been made redundant heads south to Helsinki and falls in love .
3 The man or woman who has been made redundant may begin to feel that life is all but over .
4 She says that none of the staff at the Southampton office has been made redundant , although several who have left have not yet been replaced .
5 Gerard Connolly , Bartholomew representative for the City of London , east , north and south London , has been made redundant .
6 Board director Colin Hargrave , who joined Alexon 18 months ago as retail development director , has been made redundant along with trading director Nick Wastnage .
7 Geoffrey Bailey , customer relations manager at Hatchards in Piccadilly , has been made redundant after almost 23 years with the bookshop .
8 Following the restructuring of Reed Consumer Books ' UK sales team , Michael Sender , area sales executive for Mandarin and Mammoth in the north west of England , has been made redundant .
9 Award-winning journalist John Burbedge has been made redundant after 13 years with the brewing giant , Courage .
10 UNEMPLOYED Derek Auld has been made redundant three times in the last three years .
11 They too are all people who 'd been made redundant .
12 Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones .
13 you are regarded as not having been made redundant at all ;
14 He is no stranger to the changing work scene having been made redundant twice , finally joining Scottish Amicable ten years ago in 1982 .
15 I 'm sure that er I 'm not in an unusual position er having been made redundant twice on the trot .
16 The United States carrier Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) ceased operations on Dec. 4 after facing heavy financial losses ; an estimated 10,000 of the airline 's employees were reported to have been made redundant .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up .
21 And so he had acquired an old-fashioned classical education , with gaps where teachers had been made redundant or classroom chaos had reigned .
22 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 .
23 Some people had been made redundant four times , and , what was worse , they were almost proud of it . ’
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 They had been made redundant involuntarily and had worked full-time in the factory in low-paid , unskilled manual jobs on the shopfloor .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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