Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these conditions prevailed in a public company , the shareholders would sack the board of directors out of hand , while in a private company , bankruptcy would soon occur . |
| 2 | Rejecting ideas out of hand implies personal rejection . |
| 3 | The undoubted fact that very often this has been the case within religions too which have become merely power-structures and sociological units , does not excuse those who are seeking to understand religion for dismissing beliefs out of hand . |
| 4 | INDUSTRY CONSORTIA OUT OF HAND |
| 5 | When it comes to the actual physical materialisation of substances such as oil , ash or gold leaf , Bohm admits that , although he does not reject the observations out of hand , even the most exploratory science comes to a standstill . |
| 6 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 7 | The government rejected these proposals out of hand and after two months dissolved the assembly . |
| 8 | Will he ensure that next week the Secretary of State for Scotland comes to the House and rejects the proposals out of hand ? |
| 9 | Forty years later the Italians , in another unprovoked attack , used poison gas to ensure victory and shot many of their prisoners out of hand . |
| 10 | If sufficient forces could be raised at short notice , the robbed would pursue the robbers on ‘ hot trod ’ , with the right to reclaim their goods by force and deal with the wrongdoers out of hand . |
| 11 | Rather than declining offers out of hand it may be appropriate to decline offers as they stand but to suggest that potential purchasers may wish to reconsider their offers ( or perhaps certain aspects of their offers ) in the light of further information . |
| 12 | This does not mean that the educated teacher will continually be in quest of innovation and reject conventional practices out of hand . |