Example sentences of "to [be] victim " in BNC.
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| 1 | They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters . |
| 2 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Unless they see through the game , such children grow up to be victims and martyrs themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Officially you are all going to be victims of a surprise attack on the rescue party by the native inhabitants . |
| 9 | They are inclined to be retiring , anxious and solitary and are far more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators . |
| 10 | These are some of the feelings we may have to explore if we seek not to be victims of our emotional life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If all their mistakes are exposed and judged , they swiftly feel themselves to be victims of an unyielding system . |
| 13 | Tyrone on Aug. 5 and in Lisburn on Aug. 24 , were also believed to be victims of the sectarian violence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One in six women are believed to be victims of domestic violence , yet many are suffering in silence . |
| 16 | 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 . |