Example sentences of "at [art] hand of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS correspondent , like many others , has suffered at the hands of groups under instruction . |
| 2 | Anyone who watched the drubbing poor Neil Lyndon received for his attack on extreme feminism , No More Sex War , and has a taste for more of the same will relish Not Guilty : In Defence of the Modern Man ( Weidenfeld , February , £8.99 , 0 297 81216 5 ) , in which David Thomas reveals the fruits of his researches into how The Guys have been Really Hurting because of their treatment at the hands of women lately . |
| 3 | In jails , at the hands of landlords , vested interests , police , during the Emergency . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At the same time it assured that those who , under weaker leadership , might have suffered at the hands of armies , could live in greater security . |
| 6 | They will succumb to neither self-abuse or abuse at the hands of others . |
| 7 | Again , there was no direct reference to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ about the destruction of European Jewry , though the whole section of the report was placed under a quotation from the speech which led up to the passage on the Jews : that in the light of the suffering of the Germans at the hands of others , people should ‘ keep well away from us with their humanitarianism ’ . |
| 8 | I am not arguing that children do not suffer at the hands of adults ; clearly they do and again we have looked at the evidence concerning incidence and prevalence . |
| 9 | This conclusion should not be seen to reflect callous indifference to individuals who have suffered miserably or fatally at the hands of persons committing ‘ conventional ’ crimes ; their agony is real and should never be ignored . |
| 10 | When children die , allegedly at the hands of parents or those responsible for their care , society expects responsibility to be allocated , and penalties paid . |
| 11 | He died at the hands of cowards who hide behind masks and get away with murder . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Amongst all the abuse , he especially valued a letter from Swinburne , a fellow-sufferer at the hands of critics , in which he praised the novel as beautiful and terrible in its pathos . |
| 14 | Other writers also complained of their treatment at the hands of benefactors , even when this had nothing to do with dedications . |
| 15 | This leaves the possibility of influence at the hands of apprentices or a designer — a possibility for which we have little , if any , evidence . |
| 16 | You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom . |
| 17 | League leaders Hibs have to pick themselves up from their League Cup final defeat at the hands of Rangers when they meet Hearts in the Edinburgh derby at Easter Road tomorrow . |
| 18 | League leaders Hibs have to pick themselves up from their League Cup final defeat at the hands of Rangers when they meet Hearts in the Edinburgh derby at Easter Road tomorrow . |
| 19 | Over the next decade that prophetic vision was made real as the landscape of Irish politics underwent revolutionary change at the hands of men and women who had been moulded and inspired by the events of 1916 . |
| 20 | In her book Texts of Terror she considers the stories of four women of the Hebrew scriptures who are subjected to terror ; rape , murder and dismemberment at the hands of men . |
| 21 | Again , the same question may be asked as that which I have asked in relation to Schüssler Fiorenza 's work : given that in every age women have been mistreated at the hands of men , how much do present-day women really have in common with biblical women ? |
| 22 | From 1965 , when hanging was abolished to 1987 , thirty- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? people have died at the hands of men who 've killed before , served a prison sentence and been released . |
| 23 | From 1965 , when hanging was abolished to 1987 , thirty- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? people have died at the hands of men who 've killed before , served a prison sentence and been released . |
| 24 | However , he is also keen to hear from residents who have also suffered at the hands of thieves . |
| 25 | Kerry says neighbours have also suffered at the hands of thieves , but says that the police seem to be taking little interest . |
| 26 | So far 3045 men women and children have died at the hands of terrorists from both sides of the sectarian divide . |
| 27 | Sir Hugh said he understood that the successes of the security forces were of little comfort to those who had suffered at the hands of terrorists . |
| 28 | It is exactly the equality before the law , which Ms Pith-Helmet invests with so much trust , that has betrayed blacks and Asians in the courts , in their treatment at the hands of vicious and prejudiced police ( that has resulted in the death of 10 blacks at the hands of police during the course of arrest and interrogation in the last 15 years ) , that allows black and Asian homes to be terrorised by racist thugs who can sprinkle liberally their British hospitality in the form of firebombs , beatings , excrement dumped on doors , and children bullied to the point of suicide and madness . |
| 29 | The build-up to the crisis , comprising a description of Avarice ( a kind of jealousy ) as a metaphorical monster , Arion 's acceptance that he is to die at the hands of sailors who covet his riches , and his swansong , is in E major ( movements 5–7 : Vivement-Récitatif-Air ) . |
| 30 | Street life kills Brazil 's children : Richard House in Sao Paulo finds runaways suffering brutality at the hands of criminals , death squads and the police |