| 词汇 | example_english_clapped-out |
| 释义 | Examples of clapped outThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Britain is once again left with a "clappedout" version. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were clappedout, so when the first world war came we had to make them into four big rail operators and therefore reduce the idea of competition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Seventh, do not appoint someone who is "clappedout", that is, who lacks the necessary initiative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Pancras described some of them as clappedout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were told that the locomotives on the line are so clappedout that they cannot continue beyond 1992. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They justify skinflint employers and clappedout machinery and plant, which is what has been going on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much of the existing stock is clappedout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If this person is clappedout will he not have the best health service in the world at his disposal? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will be clappedout and breaking down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some are clappedout at 50; some are still full of go and vigour at 70. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our modem ships are excellent, but we still have too many old and clappedout ships. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not enough to tell us, and to laugh when it is mentioned, that all the equipment is clappedout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Without the two landing platform docks are the centre of any possible amphibious action, but which are completely clappedout at present. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The police would not welcome a power to remove worn out old tyres or bits of clappedout car engines. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To use a technical term, it is clappedout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, who wants to fly around and have to land on a "clappedout" old carrier in the 1970s? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have whole fleets of clappedout diesel multiple units trundling round the countryside long after their life expectancy has run out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because they are clappedout, the timing of the services on those routes must be extended. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Less than 11 months later, that vehicle is clappedout, needs replacing and is unable to perform the function required of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have an inheritance of dereliction, obsolete buildings, derelict land, poor services, roads which are literally clappedout and docks which are effectively dead. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is revealing that the nuclear industry used to think that, when nuclear plants became clappedout, they could be disposed of at sea. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I worry that he might be clappedout and, therefore, somebody else should be chosen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now the children despise the silly professional who has a clappedout old car parked by the playground. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As has been said, this was not some clappedout rust bucket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I did not say that the industry was clappedout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once that equipment is 27 or 28 years old, it begins to get clappedout and investment decisions cannot be put off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That line is a scandal, with clappedout rolling stock and signalling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sooner we get rid of the clappedout dogma, when referring to educational standards, the better. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are clappedout while still relatively young men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a vast reclama-tion project of a "clappedout", dying industrial area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think he will be clappedout at the end of that time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Further, much of the public's perception is that all the pits that have been closed were clappedout and were using mining technology of yesteryear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some of them are pretty clappedout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is made up of a lot of small and run down—almost industrially clappedout—places in that part of the country, brought together into the new town. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are few industries that we have nationalised through dogma—it has been in the national interest or because they have been clappedout by public enterprise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For example, he asserted that the high-speed trains that now service that line are 25 years old and clappedout, but that is not the case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, the last time it was really high was in 1955, when the same thing happened and the equipment had to be replaced because it was totally clappedout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clappedout railway stock needs replacement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not surprised that in these modern days people are not attracted by trains which are sometimes not only just dirty but clappedout, to use the phrase. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In that way he can avoid the capital cost of replacement, but he will only increase the revenue cost on his defence budget by trying to maintain clappedout equipment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of them is so clappedout that it would take the best part of a year to get it back into some sort of order. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is absolutely clappedout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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