Example sentences of "[was/were] ruled out by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were nevertheless plenty of suggestions for targets : St Nazaire was considered but dismissed because shoal waters were thought to make a sea approach impractical ; Dieppe appeared too heavily defended ; and many suggested moves to occupy distant islands were ruled out by the impossibility of maintaining garrisons . |
| 2 | Many possible direct effects were ruled out by the test program and Mayo eventually concluded that a complex emotional chain had been behind the productivity changes . |
| 3 | By 1908 , when he saw that his stipulation was ruled out by the failure of British immigrants and the Liberal acceleration of colonial self-government — soon to be followed by South African union — he unhesitatingly drew the correct conclusion : |
| 4 | However , staying was ruled out by the realisation that it was impossible to find a suitable single site to accommodate all the various departments . |
| 5 | Although as the largest parliamentary party the CEDA might have expected to dominate government after the November 1933 election , this was ruled out by the President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , on grounds of the CEDA 's non-republicanism . |
| 6 | The prediction that Poisson deduced from Fresnel 's wave theory of light in 1818 , namely , that a bright spot should be observed at the centre of one side of an opaque disc suitably illuminated from the other , was novel because the existence of that bright spot was ruled out by the particle theory of light that formed part of the background knowledge of the time . |
| 7 | Any possibility of this , he concluded , was ruled out by the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 which finally brought to an end the provisions of the Navigation Acts , ( already repealed in other respects in 1849 ) that all seamen on coasting vessels , and three-quarters of crews on ships in foreign trade , were to be British . |
| 8 | Presumably an even more westerly line was ruled out by the presence of the marsh . |
| 9 | The prospect of Prime Minister John Major calling an early general election ( due by mid-1992 ) in June 1991 was ruled out by the poor performance of the ruling Conservative Party in parliamentary by-elections in two Welsh constituencies on April 4 and May 16 , and in local elections in England and Wales on May 2 . |