Example sentences of "[noun sg] is rule out " in BNC.
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| 1 | With laboratory test results negative for HIV infection , AIDS is ruled out for surveillance purposes unless the patient has had : |
| 2 | ‘ A mistake or sheer incompetence is ruled out . |
| 3 | Moreover , reform is ruled out because either the new second chamber would be less democratic than the Commons in which case it should not be able to delay legislation , or if it was just as democratic then there is no point in having two chambers , the more so since there is the potential problem of constitutional deadlock between them . |
| 4 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 5 | If nucleic acids are the only carriers of heredity , and if the central dogma is correct , then Lamarckism is ruled out . |
| 6 | a reduction in men 's pensionable age is ruled out for the foreseeable future on grounds of cost … on the other hand , the government believes that raising the pensionable age for women would be unfair to women who have contributed over the years in the expectation of a pension at 60 . |
| 7 | And yet on that one issue , taken on its own , Selby District is ruled out . |
| 8 | The argument is that just as direct democracy is ruled out by the size of the modern state , so too once companies grow beyond a certain size it is no longer possible to involve all their members directly in the decisions concerning the running of the company . |
| 9 | Remittance is ruled out |
| 10 | However this interpretation is ruled out by the following co-text and his wife overhears him . |
| 11 | Thus if the data satisfy the restrictions implied by equations ( 3.14 ) and ( 3.16 ) it can be taken as support for the rational expectations model of consumption : the observationally equivalent non-rational expectations model is ruled out on theoretical grounds . |
| 12 | Since it is axiomatic to the new classical macroeconomics that market economies are characterized by states of more or less continuous full employment , Keynes 's elasticities analysis is ruled out as irrelevant ex hypothesi . |
| 13 | It is obvious that , if society is a whole greater than the sum of its individual parts , as the holistic fallacy alleges , then analysis of that social whole is impossible , and reductive , causal explanation is ruled out of court . |
| 14 | And Saints ' hopes of closing the gap on League leaders Wigan will take a dive if the 35-year-old is ruled out of their Christmas derby clashes against the Central Park champions and Widnes . |
| 15 | There are a number of legal formulae by which any suggestion of reverse discrimination is ruled out . |
| 16 | The halfway house of floating a part of the equity of the better businesses while retaining a majority is ruled out by the fact that the units so treated have to have a three-year separate trading record first . |
| 17 | The experienced medium pacer is ruled out along with former Surrey all-rounder Ian Payne and young New Zealand batsman Phil Lewis . |
| 18 | But even if the question of necessity is ruled out , the notion that events in outer space influence Earth and its atmosphere , as well as the nature and distribution of animal life , is now a substantive truth . |
| 19 | It seems reasonable to suppose that they should be , if the contentious area of imaginative literature is ruled out . |
| 20 | Aqib is ruled out of tomorrow 's ( WED ) decisive one-day game in Auckland — the series is now level at 1-1 — but can return for the solitary Test of the Pakistan tour , starting at Hamilton on Saturday . |
| 21 | It is illegal to put large quantities of animal faeces in household waste for collection , so that idea is ruled out . |
| 22 | No idea is ruled out during the period of the brainstorming . |
| 23 | And Stephen Dorrell , financial secretary to the Treasury , conceded that ‘ no option is ruled out ’ in the Government 's search for £10 billion cuts in public spending . |
| 24 | Pressed again on ‘ hotel charges ’ , he replied : ‘ No option is ruled out , that would be a completely wrong way of proceeding . ’ |