Example sentences of "we [am/are] the victim " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saddened sympathisers offer condolence : that we are the victim of our own success — that it was Labour 's postwar achievements that gave rise to today 's affluent but now electorally ungrateful majority . |
| 2 | A young Tory activist from Preston said : ‘ We are the victims of our own success . |
| 3 | We are the victims of a societal ethic that voluntary service provision should not be tainted by association with political activism . |
| 4 | One of them told me , ‘ We are the victims , the victims of reform . ’ |
| 5 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |