Example sentences of "have be abused " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horse that has been abused , intimidated , and broken will never have the pride , self-esteem , and affection for its owner which can make a good horse into a great one . |
| 2 | But consider someone whose home has been abused by burglars . |
| 3 | A central problem in working with such cases concerns the position of the old person in question , who has been abused . |
| 4 | It has been open to abuse , and indeed has been abused in the past by the Sheffield Mafia , which continues to exercise a covert control over British climbing media and administration out of all proportion to its collective record or ongoing contribution . |
| 5 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 6 | They use certain key criteria ( ‘ danger clues ’ ) to help them decide whether or not a child has been abused and/or is in danger of abuse . |
| 7 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 8 | But social dumping is but one example of the way in which the European spirit has been abused by this government . |
| 9 | Illegal exports of fish are also on the increase , while fishing for research purposes has been abused . |
| 10 | Tonight in a special report we look at how the Forest has been abused in the past , and how it 's still going on today . |
| 11 | It means that um particularly in therapy it can be very difficult later on because things that we would ordinarily consider to be supportive like being kind , like erm y'know kind of putting a comforting arm round somebody 's shoulders , like erm y'know ways in which people express support and affection for each-other ah are very very difficult for the survivor to accept because they 're sort of the part of the way in which she , and it usually is a she , has been abused in the past . |
| 12 | Then a week later my wife told me that she 'd been abused by her brother . |
| 13 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 14 | ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that as many as 100 women could have been abused by him using his evil methods , ’ one detective told TODAY . |
| 15 | But seven more victims came forward during the police investigation and ‘ as many as a hundred ’ may have been abused by the smooth-talking doctor , a senior detective admitted . |
| 16 | One detective said : ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that during his career as many as a hundred women could have been abused by him using his evil methods . |
| 17 | For these women , coming to terms with the fact that their own children may also have been abused was torture , Hickson says , and they were n't ready to take part in a self-help group . |
| 18 | The much-tested , long awaited OU pack which helps social workers , police and others to interview effectively children who may have been abused . |
| 19 | We must ensure we are not placing a child in a family where his or her own mother may herself have been abused . |
| 20 | 7.4 Employees and their managers must complete this form and send it to the Employees Relations Officer at Department Headquarters , , not only in circumstances in which the employee has been physically hurt but also where they may have been abused or threatened in any way or subjected to racial or sexual harassment . |
| 21 | He thought that the Americans were right in their estimate that any truce would have been abused by the North Vietnamese to strengthen communist forces in South Vietnam . |
| 22 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 23 | They are the anxieties of our times , born of the idea that the individual must in one way or another ( any damned way , as a matter of fact , even confessing to having been abused as a child ) express his uniqueness and fulfil his potential . |
| 24 | MORE than 200 children are believed to have been abused by staff at council homes in a 20-year catalogue of sexual assaults , beatings and humiliating punishment regimes . |
| 25 | This approach is based on follow-up work to a project on protection of children thought to have been abused or neglected and on empirical studies of the effects of divorce on family income , published 1986 by OUP under the title of ‘ Maintenance after Divorce ’ and para-legal decision-making on divorce . |
| 26 | The judge rejected a claim for compensation for psychological damage by a mother and her daughter , who was believed to have been abused by the mother 's boyfriend . |
| 27 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 28 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 29 | The offences took place between 1977 and 1983 with boys then aged between 11 and 13 , some of whom had been abused by their parents before being taken into care . |
| 30 | Like many previous reports , including the Cleveland Enquiry , the focus was not on whether children had been abused , but on whether ‘ proper procedures ’ had been followed . |