Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics . |
| 2 | He has a fine technique and a good grasp of Lisztian idiom : the Mephisto Waltz in particular has suffered horribly at the hands of stop/go pianists who ‘ apply the brakes ’ all over the place . |
| 3 | South America , on the other hand , has suffered greatly at the hands of the cattle ranchers . |
| 4 | Wheelchair-bound Ethlyn Whittaker , aged 56 , from Great Sankey , Warrington , has started a campaign against the means test forms , and has hit out at the charges set to be introduced in October . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you can spoil them , and Milton gets spoiled enough at the shows . |
| 6 | Sadly , in the second half , the play begins to fall apart at the seams as Harwood attempts to combine comedy with more serious themes . |
| 7 | It relates to that other world , the great shabby confusion outside these walls to which I return each evening , to Timmy and Cheryl , to my mother-in-law who comes to help out at the weekends , to everything unresolved and unsatisfactory . |
| 8 | ‘ Something 's happened outside at the police cordon . ’ |