Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] abused " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a judge has slept badly , has had an indigestible breakfast , tripped over the cat , has been roundly abused by his wife and scolded by his children , or if his mind has been distracted by the children 's school reports , a narrow defeat at a curling match or whatever , he may be temporarily off form . |
| 2 | Its child protection procedures have information about what to do if a child is worried about HIV , and how to make an appropriate referral if HIV/AIDS came up as an issue for child who has been sexually abused . |
| 3 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
| 4 | THE word ‘ villa ’ in Romano-British terminology has been much abused . |
| 5 | The first explicit recognition comes , as for many women , with an apparently trivial event which provides route into the buried memories combined with hearing a story of a child who has been recently abused . |
| 6 | For example , the often quoted MORI survey ( Baker and Duncan , 1985 ) considered : The interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults about their childhood yielded a figure of 10 per cent who reported being sexually abused . |
| 7 | He said his name was John and that he 'd been sexually abused as a child . |
| 8 | Before she was killed she 'd been sexually abused . |
| 9 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 10 | The patients would often recollect having been sexually abused by an adult ; for most of his female patients this adult abuser was the father . |
| 11 | Now this procedure was used to , in inverted commas , diagnose a number of children in the Cleveland area as having been sexually abused . |
| 12 | Experienced social workers from Strathclyde were drafted in to Orkney to help remove the nine children alleged to have been sexually abused from South Ronaldsay . |
| 13 | He went on to say that it seemed prudent to classify all non-accidental injuries to young children as ‘ high risk ’ cases , since 80% of all children unlawfully killed by their parents had been previously abused . |
| 14 | Twenty-year-old Ashiq Hussain was knifed outside the office of the Birmingham city centre taxi firm where he worked , coming to the rescue of a fellow driver who had been racially abused and harassed by three white passengers . |
| 15 | He described how L. had been physically abused by her mother and step-father and he also described his concerns regarding the mother as a parent . |
| 16 | Children who had been chronically abused by their parents . |
| 17 | The appropriate procedures for investigation were followed and the opinion of the consultant paediatrician who examined her was that she had been chronically abused sexually . |
| 18 | The traditional Roman Republican portrait was also problematic , since it had been so abused by Caesar . |
| 19 | The steaks fitted both descriptions : terrible because despite their pampered lives , they were as tasteless as any meat which had not been properly hung ; typically English because even on small plates they looked mean and thin and had been further abused by overcooking . |
| 20 | Ninety-eight ( 18 per cent ) said they had been sexually abused at some time , including 82 girls — the victims of rape , incest , sexual assault or prostitution . |
| 21 | She asked them why ; they said it was because they had information that the two children had been sexually abused . |
| 22 | Eighteen per cent of these young people had been sexually abused at some time and 4 per cent of the females cited this as the main reason for running ( Newman , forthcoming ) . |
| 23 | In August 1991 she disclosed to her older half-sister that she had been sexually abused by her father . |
| 24 | She had been sexually abused as a child ; an incident that made her attempt suicide . |
| 25 | The accused had been sexually abused himself as a child and now bitterly regretted the harm he had caused his daughters . |
| 26 | Fifty three people have said yes , they 've been physically abused . |
| 27 | And there we have e have phwurgh , seventy six people have said yes , they 've been emotionally abused by a man . |
| 28 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 29 | That is um if you erm if you make children er sort of lie down on their fronts with their bums in their air and you and bums in their air and you touch anuses apparently the anus dilates , or it can do , erm allegedly in children who 've been sexually abused in that way , in children who 've been who 've been penetrated anally . |
| 30 | The House might recall the Auld report , which referred to our 2.2 million shop workers as people who have been generally abused in terms of their long working hours and poor wages . |