Example sentences of "have been the victims " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty International seeks to draw attention to cases of children , from babies to teenagers , who have been the victims of human rights atrocities . |
| 2 | Indigenous people in the Americas have been the victims of gross human rights abuses ever since Christopher Colombus landed on the island of Hispaniola on 12 October , 1492 . |
| 3 | Such research has purported to show that abusing parents are more likely to have , for example , personality problems ( Loss and Glancy , 1983 ; Kokkevi and Agathonos , 1987 ) , low IQ ( Oliver , 1977 ) and have been the victims of abuse themselves ( Kempe and Kempe , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | Badgers which have been the victims of cruel baiters are being introduced back into the wild . |
| 5 | A recent study suggested that as many as 1 in 6 women have been the victims of some form of domestic abuse , which means that many are suffering in silence . |
| 6 | ANTI-RACISM campaigners visited Darlington yesterday to speak to Asian market traders who have been the victims of racist abuse . |
| 7 | ‘ We believe we have been the victims of a substantial fraud , ’ said the army 's legal and parliamentary secretary , Capt Peter Smith . |