Example sentences of "[verb] out [prep] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I just say then we seem to have agreed that that standard Andrew points been taken on board and dismissed out of hand |
| 2 | ‘ That may be true , but it has vigour enough to ensure that he shall not be hanged out of hand . ’ |
| 3 | Although it was once carried out by hand , machines using centrifugal force are now used instead . |
| 4 | The spraying operations are carried out by hand , tractor and helicopter . |
| 5 | In the acoustic shop , a surprising amount of work is carried out by hand . |
| 6 | Special finishes are of course completed in the time-honoured fashion ; sunbursts and other fancy finishes are carried out by hand . |
| 7 | As I have already mentioned , nearly all of the work can be carried out by hand ; useful hand-tools include a coping saw , spokeshave ( for curved work ) scraper and sliding bevel , callipers to work out the thickness of curved sections , and a pair of sash cramps . |
| 8 | If the cartographic and tabular data could be stored in computer-readable form , then the speed of the computer could be used to select areas with the required characteristics , derive composite maps , and perform other operations that would be impossibly time-consuming if carried out by hand . |
| 9 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 10 | The head of the Ghanaian army , Major-General Barwah , refused to surrender to the conspirators ; he was shot out of hand . |
| 11 | But if they disobeyed or tried to escape they would be shot out of hand . |
| 12 | Most Super-Sprinter services are based on hourly or two-hourly clock-face timings , and a feature of their operation has been their reliability , much in the face of opposition from traditional railway operators who originally rejected out of hand the idea that end-on services could be linked up without transferring delays from one part of the system to another . |
| 13 | The second question he rejected out of hand , and that was that . |
| 14 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 15 | It was n't , you know , rejected out of hand . |
| 16 | " When Laval starts praising collective security and multilateral treaties , it is time to be wary " , Nizan laconically remarked , dismissing out of hand Lavals professed support for the politics of peace as no more than " carefully phrased remarks " . |
| 17 | If we care about other people — and if we want so far as possible to affirm other people — we shall walk warily before dismissing out of hand , discourteously or clumsily , what is deeply meaningful to them . |
| 18 | It began with the Malthusian theory that population quantity was growing out of hand , and was followed by Galton 's addition , a perceived erosion of ’ quality ’ population . |
| 19 | He is a young friend of Stepan Verkhovensky , and when the notebooks record that Granovsky ( Stepan 's prototype ) has got out of hand they are also heralding the novelist 's escape into a fictional mode of enormous suppleness . |
| 20 | Is it not time , though , to ask whether all this heady ferment over a mere conductor — Abbado or any other — has not got out of hand ? |
| 21 | Things have got out of hand in the past but this time it 's just a fashion show , ’ said Mrs Deborah Keily of the NSPCC , which hoped to raise £20,000 from the show . |
| 22 | But it had got out of hand before , and Clive had coped with it . |
| 23 | AN ENTIRE village football team was arrested when victory celebrations got out of hand . |
| 24 | She would run and hide as her parents ' altercations so often got out of hand with plates crashing and books thrown . |
| 25 | In the late 19th century both were seized by a modernising nationalism , which in time got out of hand , producing belligerent fascism . |
| 26 | Cardwell alleged it been stolen , and the row got out of hand , said Mr Kennedy . |
| 27 | Stories were told about how they had actually done considerable damage to some visiting fans when situations had got out of hand . |
| 28 | And Fenella remembered the thin , frayed legend of how the Earth-people , at one time in their history , had created a race of machines and how they had then created machines to run the machines and how it had all got out of hand . |
| 29 | This was an idea that could easily have got out of hand and extensive research was conducted before and after the ads were produced to make sure the communication was exactly as intended . |
| 30 | Magistrates , victims of crime , the police and even offenders agree cautioning has got out of hand . |