Example sentences of "been [art] victims " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days that followed , the Tysons found that they and 18,000 other investors had been the victims of a financial crash of global proportions . |
| 2 | Christians and Muslims had been the victims of sectarian assassinations . |
| 3 | Delinquents have more commonly been the victims of adult assaults — often of a vicious , persistent and even calculated nature — than non-delinquents . |
| 4 | In 1949 , Torino had been the victims of one of the worst air disasters in footballing history when their championship team , including the great Italian captain Valentino Mazzolla , were killed when the team 's aeroplane crashed into the Superga hillside outside Turin . |
| 5 | Our parents may not have been Christian , or even if they were they could have been the victims of some erroneous ideas or traditions . |
| 6 | ‘ Have n't the Jews so often been the victims down the years of people who were looking for demons to bait ? ’ he said . |
| 7 | Amnesty International seeks to draw attention to cases of children , from babies to teenagers , who have been the victims of human rights atrocities . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Of the ethnic minority population , 10.8 per cent had been the victims of assault as opposed to 5.5 per cent of whites . |
| 11 | Of a random sample of 644 female householders who were or had been married , 87 or 14% had been the victims of rape or attempted rape by their husbands or ex-husbands . |
| 12 | of them revealed that they had been the victims of marital rape . |
| 13 | Letelier and Moffit had been the victims of a car bomb in Washington , but Chile 's Supreme Court had twice refused requests from the US government for the extradition of Contreras and Espinoza , and military courts had repeatedly refused to re-open proceedings against them . |
| 14 | Over a thousand butterflies which died suddenly at a special reserve in Fraddam , Cornwall , are believed to have been the victims of wind-borne pesticide drift … |
| 15 | Badgers which have been the victims of cruel baiters are being introduced back into the wild . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ANTI-RACISM campaigners visited Darlington yesterday to speak to Asian market traders who have been the victims of racist abuse . |
| 18 | ‘ We believe we have been the victims of a substantial fraud , ’ said the army 's legal and parliamentary secretary , Capt Peter Smith . |
| 19 | THREE generations of a family found murdered in the kitchen of a terraced house had been the victims of a horrendous and frenzied attack , police said yesterday . |
| 20 | And the Russians looked to have been the victims of psychological warfare when they were left to warm up without a practice ball . |