Example sentences of "be victim " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'm worried that the whole scene will be looked at as women who are abused screaming at patriarchy , as if the uniting force is that they 're victims . |
| 2 | Tracy Miles and Susan Little say they 're victims of a policy now adopted by many insurance companies . |
| 3 | Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures . |
| 4 | Oh I know , I mean we 're victims of that at work ! |
| 5 | They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters . |
| 6 | Many more will be victims of ill-health or injury . |
| 7 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 8 | Their subconscious mind , however , has not progressed beyond the guilt stage and they continue to see themselves in their inner mind as bad people who deserve nothing better than to be victims . |
| 9 | Unless they see through the game , such children grow up to be victims and martyrs themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ Young men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than women and the risks of being raped by a stranger are very small indeed ( approximately one in 25,000 ) but most women would put the risk at a lot higher . |
| 11 | By the time the permissive climate of the late 1960s had come to allow boys and girls to admit tender feelings for one another , the first faint notes of anti-sexist protest ensured that girls would no longer be content to be victims awaiting rescue by dauntless boys . |
| 12 | In this country where the same vicious law which imprisoned Wilde still operates one looks to those with pretensions to a scientific approach not to be victims of prejudice and intolerance but to give a lead for at least a saner and more comprehensive attitude towards the homosexual in society . ’ |
| 13 | Officially you are all going to be victims of a surprise attack on the rescue party by the native inhabitants . |
| 14 | They are inclined to be retiring , anxious and solitary and are far more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators . |
| 15 | These are some of the feelings we may have to explore if we seek not to be victims of our emotional life . |
| 16 | Black people on average are almost twice as likely as other people to be victims of assault and women are almost twice as likely again as men to be assaulted . |
| 17 | If all their mistakes are exposed and judged , they swiftly feel themselves to be victims of an unyielding system . |
| 18 | Tyrone on Aug. 5 and in Lisburn on Aug. 24 , were also believed to be victims of the sectarian violence . |
| 19 | All were thought to be victims of the fierce military repression which took place in the first three months following the military coup of September 1973 . |
| 20 | One in six women are believed to be victims of domestic violence , yet many are suffering in silence . |
| 21 | Coun Buttle told members of the personnel committee : ‘ It 's important to stress that men as well as women can be victims of harassment and sometimes it 's harder for them to admit it . ’ |
| 22 | But to be forever in child-bed , surrounded by countless sons and daughters , many of them ill ; to run a self-supporting household with endless heavy domestic chores ; to be victim to a view that a woman 's one means of self-fulfilment must be through the home — all that adds up to a state of affairs not to be envied . |
| 23 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , the governor of the Bank of England , in a speech in Hamburg on Jan. 22 , maintained that " the hard ecu would not be victim to the pitfalls of other parallel currency schemes because it would be defined so that it could never be devalued against other ERM currencies in a realignment " . |
| 24 | We also talked about experiences of being victims of offences and found Blacks had significantly less , and had reported fewer of these to the police . |
| 25 | A corollary of this is that the risks which people face of being victims of serious crime are remarkably small . |
| 26 | As well as being victims of crime women also suffer from the effects of fear of crime . |
| 27 | And that rate of assaults means officers in the city now have a 50% chance of being victims , like these . |
| 28 | Volunteers handle hundreds of cases every year helping Darlington people to come to terms with being victims of crime . |
| 29 | What we try to do is help them to stop being victims . ’ |
| 30 | A report , to be discussed by tomorrow 's social services committee , says : ‘ The children migration schemes has in very many cases resulted in severe emotional trauma for those who were victim of such policies . |