Example sentences of "[prep] order " in BNC.
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| 1 | ADVANCED MICRO TO SHIP Am486 AT ONCE AFTER ORDER FOR RETRIAL |
| 2 | ADVANCED MICRO TO SHIP Am486 AT ONCE AFTER ORDER FOR RETRIAL … |
| 3 | It is sometimes thought , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) that , because there is no discernable principle of order in the universe or in our lives we should live in disorder . |
| 4 | I , on the other hand , he wrote , have always held that precisely because there is no discernable principle of order in the universe or in our lives we should live in the greatest possible self-created order . |
| 5 | The greatest possible self-created order , he wrote , compatible of course with the freedom to work , which may mean very little order indeed or may mean a great deal of order , depending on the individual and the circumstances . |
| 6 | These are taught to the initiate to show him the accepted response to the vagaries of order , disorder , ambiguity , and ambivalence which lies in the complexities of social behaviour . |
| 7 | I suspect Greenhill was referring specifically to a dearth in the cultural analysis of policing , while his use of the duality of ‘ sides ’ reveals another parallel binary to that of ‘ cops and robbers ’ , with the police and sociology arraigned against each other in yet another of the wars which the police wage against those who defile the sanctity of their definition of the concept of order . |
| 8 | The police , of course , can never really be geared easily to incorporate structural challenge to their existing concepts of order and control , for they are set up to maintain the symbols and practice which has sustained the status quo . |
| 9 | Anything other than an uncritical acceptance is a direct challenge to the idea of the rule of law which has sustained the police since their inception and which argues that the replication of a known system of order is the best means of containing those who need to be controlled . |
| 10 | In the police this desire for a clearly defined world of order derives from an implicit understanding that control of social behaviour is always surrounded by the dirt of structural ambivalence . |
| 11 | Not unnaturally a police world values uniformity , for as the language infers it embodies the essentials of a system obsessed with physical and ideological concepts of order and discipline . |
| 12 | As ‘ real polises ’ we were correctly distributed in space and our bodies were properly turned out with the symbols of order . |
| 13 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 14 | Deference to concepts of order based on such signifiers as exact time keeping , definitive shift systems , spatial purity , clearly demarcated terms of address , and other measures designed to maintain the systems of control were irrevocably loosened . |
| 15 | Dr Runcie 's Pope would be , as it were , the speaker of the universal Church , perhaps with some power to rule members out of order . |
| 16 | Since then , they have been out of order frequently — seven days in August alone . |
| 17 | The down-escalator is still out of order . |
| 18 | It is all out of order because the preliminaries are a shambles . |
| 19 | This old Westminster hand misses the joy of watching a backbench procedural expert destroy a day 's business , if not a bill , with a point of order or a single wrecking amendment . |
| 20 | There are jests about administrative gaffes ( 'overtrousers ' mistyped as ‘ overt rousers ’ ) or about the craziness of bureaucracy ( the staff have no order forms because they have run out of order forms with which to order them ) . |
| 21 | We stopped beside a autobank , which was out of order . |
| 22 | I bet ya it was one of them that put that out of order . |
| 23 | He ruled the objection out of order . |
| 24 | must be answerable to our estate and dignitie , for distinction of order and degree in the societies of men . |
| 25 | Class and sexual disruption suggest each other , and with this conclusion : ‘ The truth is the world is very far out of order ’ ( Letters , ii . |
| 26 | In 1977 Tanzania received thirty-five new diesel engines for the railway system under aid provided by Canada ; by 1982 seventeen of these were out of order and by 1988 rolling stock problems had reduced the once-daily service on the Chinese-built railway to Zambia ( opened in 1976 ) to just twice-weekly . |
| 27 | He rolled his eyes and tugged at his collar and blew on his finger-nails ; and then Erika felt a sensation she had never known before ; one that in all her life of order , regimentation , structures , and of love and caring , too , it had never occurred to her that she might have . |
| 28 | Why Nigel just had to go Points of Order . |
| 29 | POINTS of Order could n't help visualising the scene in Number 10 Downing Street a week last Thursday , when the lad from next door burst in to say his piece . |
| 30 | But nevertheless : ‘ We should not forget that an over-regard for individual liberties can put at risk that sense of order and security without which no community can be truly free . ’ |