Example sentences of "ruled [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Conclusive falsifications are ruled out by the lack of a perfectly secure observational base on which they depend . |
| 3 | Here we examine an array of structure formation models , and show that most are ruled out by the COBE and QDOT observations . |
| 4 | Presumably an even more westerly line was ruled out by the presence of the marsh . |
| 5 | But sources have confirmed that this has been ruled out by the Treasury in the current round of public expenditure talks . |
| 6 | However , staying was ruled out by the realisation that it was impossible to find a suitable single site to accommodate all the various departments . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | EASING London 's increasing traffic congestion by means of road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson . |
| 12 | Easing London 's increasing traffic congestion by road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson who told the Commons transport committee that it would be impractical . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Roddie had the ball in the net on two other occasions only to be ruled out by the referee for infringements , and Iceland duly rubbed salt in the wounds when Feyenoord 's Arnar Gunnlaugsson crossed from the right and Thordur Gudjonsson blasted the equaliser past substitute goalkeeper Jim Will . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To a plea from the military that the United States should engage in " positive , dynamic and timely action " before the Soviets acquired " atomic plenty " , Dulles replied that , short of preventive war which had already been ruled out by the administration , the Soviets were bound to develop a nuclear arsenal which sooner or later would threaten the United States with unacceptable levels of destruction . |