Example sentences of "[pers pn] can rule out " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now we 've found poison in that dish , I think we can rule out any idea of Sir Thomas creeping upstairs to poison himself — purposely at any rate . |
| 2 | ‘ Well sir , I think we can rule out natural causes and I ca n't see how dynamite could accidentally get under a table , so unless he committed suicide in a way that endangered the lives of other people , I think we must assume it was murder . |
| 3 | One of them , the first one we saw , I think we can rule out straight away . |
| 4 | In the case of the white boy , we can rule out the possibility of " mother-tongue " interference because his first exposure to Creole was almost certainly rather late in life and too late to " interfere " with his acquisition of LE . |
| 5 | But we can rule out mechanical error . |