Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] hands [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western scholars may never discover how many Soviet citizens perished at the hands of Beria 's NKVD troops ( or Abakhumov 's SMERSH , operating in the enemy rear ) , but the scale and significance of their operations is well understood by those who command today 's KGB Border Guards and MVD Internal Troops , along with the ‘ special detachments ’ of the KGB and Armed Forces . |
| 2 | Of the 120,000 people who attended the three day meeting last year , 33 suffered at the hands of pickpockets despite a huge police crime prevention campaign . |
| 3 | Safeway supermarket group Argyll suffered at the hands of profit takers despite impressive full-year results and a confident prediction it can push profits ahead . |
| 4 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 5 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 6 | Historians agree they then died at the hands of Stalin . |
| 7 | He died at the hands of cowards who hide behind masks and get away with murder . |
| 8 | In the 1970s more than one million Cambodians died at the hands of Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge . |