Example sentences of "out [prep] order " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Since then , they have been out of order frequently — seven days in August alone . |
| 3 | The down-escalator is still out of order . |
| 4 | It is all out of order because the preliminaries are a shambles . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | We stopped beside a autobank , which was out of order . |
| 7 | I bet ya it was one of them that put that out of order . |
| 8 | He ruled the objection out of order . |
| 9 | Class and sexual disruption suggest each other , and with this conclusion : ‘ The truth is the world is very far out of order ’ ( Letters , ii . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Why were n't they ruled out of order before they transgressed ? |
| 12 | Mr Jack Adams , chairman of the union side , said that action would have to take place within a 28-day period from yesterday 's anouncement or it would be ruled out of order . |
| 13 | Anyway , the Hugheses are all out of order in the book . |
| 14 | Yet , I always conclude , it might have seemed strange and unnatural to have shown too much feeling ; strange , and perhaps embarrassing and out of order , I being somewhat far down in the family hierarchy . |
| 15 | I know it 's out of order , me coming here like this , but it 's urgent , could n't wait . ’ |
| 16 | I admit my man was out of order tackling it in the way he did , for which he will be disciplined , I assure you . ’ |
| 17 | There were suggestions from the American air force that the controls may have been put out of order by the fire which caused the crash and that , even if the pilot had stayed in his cockpit until the collision , he would not have been able to do more . |
| 18 | So , too , is the risk that an overcooked spinners ' pitch may be ruled out of order and points deducted at umpires ' question time . |
| 19 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
| 20 | In most shows ‘ hands-on ’ technology tends to be a token feature ; either over-subscribed or out of order . |
| 21 | City Diary : Well out of order |
| 22 | As for reaching a telephone , given the meticulous organisation behind the coup , Trent was sure that the telephone exchange would be in Louis ' hands and out of order , particularly for foreign calls , which put calling Steve in Washington out of the question . |
| 23 | They were often unable to keep time to within fifteen minutes a day and were frequently out of order . |
| 24 | The main rule is : do n't suppress conflict by declaring it out of order . |
| 25 | It was cloudy enough to require full IFR flight , and we were cleared for the ILS at Vigo , but had to refuse since the VOR/DME there was out of order and there is no additional locator beacon to find the beam . |
| 26 | She picked the papers up hurriedly and put them back before anyone should see , but it seemed Mr Bradford , who was a powerful man at the Doctors ' Commons , had complained that they were out of order . |
| 27 | Arriving late to find all moving stairways were out of order a panicky half mile sprint was needed to catch our plane . |
| 28 | I would always be ‘ starting the diet tomorrow ’ and if I ate one thing ‘ out of order ’ , the diet would collapse and I would eat everything in sight until I could hardly move . |
| 29 | Vincent-Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . |
| 30 | Away from the pitch there were other voices of dissent , not least that of Gulf manager Bob Driver describing the hotel which accommodated all the teams : ‘ There are no TVs or radios functioning in the rooms , the swimming pools are out of order , and the tennis courts ca n't be used . |