Example sentences of "at the hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron began to wonder if Mr Menzies was identifying himself with Job , and when he ended ringingly on ‘ Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil ? ’ , the suspicion was confirmed . |
| 2 | While at the hand of a Gabo , a Victor Vasareley or a Ben Nicholson its poetry enjoys analogy and metaphor , its strength is based on scientific methodology , inductive and deductive reasoning ( ref : ‘ The Design Spectrum ’ , Chapter 15 ) . |
| 3 | Pigs are intelligent , sensitive animals , yet they too are submitted to virtual imprisonment at the hand of battery farming . |
| 4 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |
| 5 | We waited behind a closed door which opened at the hand of a rugged dark-haired , dark-bearded man in an open white coat who said : ‘ Hi , I 'm Ron Levy . ’ |
| 6 | Your review of Raymond Bonner 's ‘ At the Hand of Man ’ ( April 24th ) is a ray of hope for those of us who live with dangerous wild animals . |
| 7 | DeVore looked down at the hand that held his own . |
| 8 | Rostov looked down at the hand which was holding his arm . |
| 9 | Chen looked down at the hand that had grasped his own so firmly . |
| 10 | He clutched at the hand in panic , and felt the coldness of death . |
| 11 | A child who suffers abuse at the hand of a stranger can expect comfort and protection from his or her family ; incest victims often have no-one to whom to turn — those who should support have been the cause of suffering . ’ |
| 12 | Benedict looked at the hand , and pointedly took a chair on the other side of the room , lounging in a stance of deliberate contempt . |
| 13 | The scene is set with a ‘ Bruit de guerre ’ and an instrumental ‘ Air de triomphe ’ illustrating the account of a battle which the Greeks lose because Achilles will not fight , angry at losing his beloved Briseis at the hand of a fellow Greek . |
| 14 | The lover 's eventual notion of seeking death at the hand of his lady ( movement 9 : E minor ) is dispelled by a few bars for ‘ Violons ’ and continuo , reminiscent of the quiet opening movements , but in a slower tempo . |
| 15 | She tugged furtively at the hand she held , drawing close against David 's hip . |
| 16 | Since black people in the southern states have suffered more injustices at the hands of the law they tend to be less likely to hand out death sentences . |
| 17 | The later stranglings look like a copy of what happened , at the hands of a sorcerer , in the loamy past , and Peter Ackroyd is very interested in copies . |
| 18 | Some of the documentaries screening are A PLACE OF RAGE , a portrait of two inspirational African-American women Angela Davies and June Jordan , and MYSTERIES OF JULY an elegaic investigation into the issue of deaths at the hands of the police . |
| 19 | And Sonya 's We are one , we live as one , ’ while it remains authorially bold , has nothing to fear at the hands of readers quick to sniff out dogma . |
| 20 | How is the world going to know it has received a boundless freedom at the hands of an obscure young man lying in some back room in a provincial Russian town ? |
| 21 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 22 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 23 | A psychiatrist who specialises in executive stress thought the fencing indicated that the person it protected felt an enormous sense of isolation and betrayal at the hands of people who had failed to be grateful for years of selfless public service . |
| 24 | Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering . |
| 25 | Milan , who faltered at the weekend with a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the current league leaders , Napoli , have slipped to seventh place , partly because of the absence of van Basten and his compatriot , Ruud Gullit , who is seeing a doctor on Monday about his cartilage injury . |
| 26 | Darcy focuses his own feelings on an Eritrean woman , a ‘ splendid bureaucrat ’ now based in Frankfurt but currently visiting the front line to renew her networks of information , and dreams hazily of a future sexual relationship with her until he discovers that she had once undergone , at the hands of the Dergue , such stomach-churning extremes of physical torture that ‘ my distance from such a height of anguish disqualified me . ’ |
| 27 | Selkirk … . 16 Boroughmuir .. 9 EVEN with three replacements permissible it is not always possible to cover the loss of a key player , as Boroughmuir discovered when suffering their third defeat in four years at the hands of Selkirk , this time by a 16-9 margin . |
| 28 | Asmussen had clearly removed the memory of Polish Precedent 's humiliation at the hands of Zilzal last Saturday from his mind , and is looking forward to tackling Michael Stoute 's colt again in the Breeders ' Cup Mile at Gulfstream Park next month . |
| 29 | BLACKPOOL : A bit of a cheer went up when the news came through last week in Brighton of the Government 's humiliation at the hands of the Bundesbank . |
| 30 | It is a product of a dark , brutal side of Cambodian society that lives in fear of racial extinction at the hands of the neighbouring Vietnamese and Thais . |