Example sentences of "[noun] have be abused " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 2 | The Trades Council recorded in its minutes of 28 January that elements of pressure had been put upon [ the Edinburgh printers ] , enormous sums of money had been expended , rare inducements had been held out , untruths had been circulated , even religion had been abused [ ? ] and brought to play on purpose to shake the men , and yet after all these means had been expended and an income verging on starvation , the men had remained as firm as at first . " |
| 3 | Lord Keeper Egerton said of Mill that ‘ the subjects have been abused and ‘ polled ’ these fourteen years past by Mill' . |
| 4 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 5 | They use certain key criteria ( ‘ danger clues ’ ) to help them decide whether or not a child has been abused and/or is in danger of abuse . |
| 6 | But consider someone whose home has been abused by burglars . |
| 7 | However , the participant observation research showed that , despite ‘ common sense ’ and the media suggesting to the contrary , these primary clues were only rarely sufficient in themselves to produce a clear and unambiguous decision that a child had been abused . |
| 8 | Illegal exports of fish are also on the increase , while fishing for research purposes has been abused . |
| 9 | Tonight in a special report we look at how the Forest has been abused in the past , and how it 's still going on today . |
| 10 | He reports that stores and vehicles belonging to the Save the Children Fund and Me decins sans Frontieres — MSF — have been looted and that individuals have been abused . |
| 11 | The next morning , so it was reported from the White House lawn , President Bush was ‘ vexed ’ and ‘ frustrated ’ by the verdict , presumably because he would now have to evince symbolic ‘ concern ’ and make well-publicised calls on the attorney general to see if Rodney King 's civil rights had been abused . |
| 12 | But social dumping is but one example of the way in which the European spirit has been abused by this government . |
| 13 | There are some situations where the relationship between parent and daughter would make intimate care impossible to give , for example where a daughter had been abused by her father as a child . |
| 14 | Like many previous reports , including the Cleveland Enquiry , the focus was not on whether children had been abused , but on whether ‘ proper procedures ’ had been followed . |
| 15 | My parents have never been racist , have always preached toleration and moderation , even though , I believe , my father and his family have been abused and dishonoured by the police . |