Example sentences of "been victims " in BNC.

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1 The Merseyside Crime Survey found , for example , that 44 per cent of interviewees had been victims of crime in the last twelve months , and a quarter had been victimized twice or more .
2 Academics and students have also been victims .
3 Similarly , parents of children who have been victims of sexual offences may not want their child to be interrogated and to go through the trauma of reliving the experience in court .
4 Victim or victimisation studies are designed to investigate the number of individuals who have been victims of crime .
5 Moreover , while they do show that official statistics tend to underestimate the amount of crime , it is likely that victim studies also under-record the amount — mostly because people can only report having been victims of crime if they know that they have been victimised .
6 People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing .
7 Let it be said that committed , monogamous gays and non-gays have also been victims .
8 Not so , says Helen Peggs , spokeswoman for Victim Support , which aims to support those people who have been victims of crime .
9 A recent study by the North London Polytechnic shows that about 27 per cent of men have been victims of some unwanted sexual contact before they are 18 , compared to over 50 per cent for women .
10 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 .
11 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 ’ .
12 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 .
13 They had good reason to support Abram , since their own people had been victims of the attack .
14 The French , having been victims of German occupation , were much less certain about this policy .
15 How has the power of this system of classification been dealt with by those who have been victims of its perverse games of inclusion and exclusion ?
16 The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike .
17 Workers , clients and the general public have all been victims in this laissez faire environment .
18 Specially trained BT staff will also be on hand to advise those who are suffering from nuisance calls , and it is intended that self-help groups will be set up by people who have been victims themselves .
19 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 .
20 Meanwhile , UK band Cancer have been victims of the dreaded Bundesprüstelle für jugendgefährende Schriften — or National Body For Censorship Of Work Dangerous To Youth .
21 THE SHAMEN have always been victims of tabloid hysteria and censorship .
22 The Kurds have been victims of particularly intense repression : there have been fresh attempts to destroy the Kurdish autonomy movement , with the result that a host of Kurdish guerrilla groups now fight with Iran against the Baghdad government .
23 The contracting parties affirm their intention to create without delay a legal foundation permitting the rehabilitation of all persons who have been victims of a politically motivated punitive measure or any court decision contrary to the rule of law or constitutional principles .
24 Meanwhile , UK band Cancer have been victims of the dreaded Bundesprüstelle für jugendgefährende Schriften — or National Body For Censorship Of Work Dangerous To Youth .
25 THE SHAMEN have always been victims of tabloid hysteria and censorship .
26 When you see people who have been victims in a completely different situation you realise they are human being and you have got to do your best for them
27 These trained workers are preparing the Ark centre , near Oxford for the arrival of youngsters , who 've been victims of sexual abuse .
28 She 's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who 've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year .
29 FOUR out of five shopkeepers in Dublin have been victims of crime , a new survey has revealed .
30 If other readers have been victims of con tricks why not pass on a warning to others through our Letters Page ?
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