Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might even be Mr Ozal himself ( he has not ruled out the idea of standing ) , but one of his associates seems a likelier choice . |
| 2 | Vietnam has not ruled out the possibility of its army returning to Cambodia if requested by Phnom Penh . |
| 3 | TERRY BUTCHER has not ruled out the possibility of staying in football with Sunderland . |
| 4 | Mr McKillen , who has offered a £100 reward to help trace the donkey , has not ruled out the possibility that a jealous rival owner may have taken Toby but fears he could already be dead . |
| 5 | And she has not ruled out the prospect of having another baby , according to royal sources . |
| 6 | Thailand has not carried out the death penalty for several years . |
| 7 | This rejection of the system may be a result of poor analysis : the system analyst has not found out the user requirements . |
| 8 | Glendinning does not spell out the implications of her findings for service provision but they can be deduced : the importance of flexible day and domiciliary care ; good transport back-up . |
| 9 | Even if there has been an infection , this does not rule out the possibility of food sensitivity : diarrhoea of any sort can sensitize the gut so that foods which were previously eaten without trouble now produce symptoms . |
| 10 | This does not rule out the possibility of critique which by investigation of the structure and forms of ideology as materialized expression ( discourse ) , can affect the forms of human practice . |
| 11 | In effect , this means that the use of feminine forms provides more specific information than the use of masculine forms can be said to provide ; it rules out the possibility of masculine reference , whereas the use of masculine forms does not rule out the possibility of feminine reference . |
| 12 | Dr Jeffrey does not rule out the possibility that privatisation might be the end result of the exercise . |
| 13 | While this does not rule out the risk of a change of regime there , it does cut down the danger of a simple change of heart by the existing government . |
| 14 | Of course , this does not rule out the use of naturalistic facts so long as an objective notion of validity is employed — the validity of inductive inference could turn on features of the context in which it is carried out , or the perceptual apparatus of the reasoner . |
| 15 | The power relationship underlies such an instruction because if an employee does not carry out the instruction then managers are entitled to exercise sanctions which are the manifestation of their power — the ultimate sanction being the sacking of an employee . |
| 16 | It seems , although the statement of claim does not set out the matter in any systematic way , that C.M.C. drew down the full loan of £420,000 and subsequently defaulted in its payments to B.M.T. It does not appear precisely how the £420,000 was expended by C.M.C. After obtaining the possession order in respect of the bakery , B.M.T. sold it for about £183,000 . |
| 17 | There must be a librettist — if the choreographer does not plan out the plot — a composer or arranger of music , a designer for set and costumes and all those associated with sets and props , painting stage-managing , lighting and everything else needed to ‘ get the curtain up ’ . |
| 18 | Between ourselves , I sometimes find myself struggling with the reality of living in a Church which patently does not live out the implications of all this . |
| 19 | Moses snatches God 's plans of redemption from the fire of his anger , but he does not put out the flames . |