Example sentences of "[vb base] been victim of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis ( Cedar , £5.99 ) sets out a self-help programme for women who 've been victims of incest . |
| 2 | She 's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who 've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year . |
| 3 | Although Johnson does not go so far as to claim that the affectless society was responsible for the Moors Murders , she does feel able to argue that the general atmosphere in society at the time had ‘ infected ’ the social system , and that ‘ Brady possibly , Hindley almost certainly , have been victims of fallout ’ . |
| 4 | If other readers have been victims of con tricks why not pass on a warning to others through our Letters Page ? |
| 5 | Children who have been victims of abuse should not be further abused by the system . ’ |
| 6 | Aleks ( Russia ) , a Moscow-based security company , is marketing a computer database of business partners to avoid : rather suspiciously launched on April 1 , the service — Conduit — has information on what it calls ‘ untrustworthy commercial partners ’ and the database is apparently updated by aggrieved entrepreneurs and firms that have been victims of fraud or deceit and are seeking redress ( or revenge ) — canny Aleks says it can not be responsible for the data contained on the database ; users must pay 5,000 roubles as an initial fee , plus another 100 roubles a month and 20 roubles for each reference . |
| 7 | But the group 's Fifties-style , sweet harmony singing is in complete contrast to their background- the brutal streets of Philadelphia where many of their friends and family have been victims of violence or bloody murder . |
| 8 | Victim or victimisation studies are designed to investigate the number of individuals who have been victims of crime . |
| 9 | Not so , says Helen Peggs , spokeswoman for Victim Support , which aims to support those people who have been victims of crime . |
| 10 | FOUR out of five shopkeepers in Dublin have been victims of crime , a new survey has revealed . |