Example sentences of "[was/were] made [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades .
2 In May 1985 , over 2,000 workers were made redundant at the Michelin Tyre factory at Stoke-on-Trent .
3 This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 .
4 He was made redundant at the end of last year but before going out of the door for the final time , he had been offered a job as employee communications manager with Eastern Electricity in Ipswich .
5 The relationship was made manifest at the life crisis ceremonials of partner lineages .
6 It was always part of the process whose importance was made clear at the outset .
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