Example sentences of "[adv] rule " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essex 's alleged impotence was the central issue facing the royal commission set up in 1613 , which duly ruled the marriage unconsummated and granted a divorce , freeing the countess to marry Carr . |
| 2 | Finland , bound by its treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union , effectively ruled itself out of any participation for the time being . |
| 3 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 4 | Together with the Socialist Party ( 142 seats ) and a new Christian Democratic party called the Mouvement Républicain Populaire ( 152 seats ) , the PCF formed a bloc which effectively ruled out the possibility of any constitution that de Gaulle could approve . |
| 5 | I could see that Aunt Louise did not altogether rule out nuns . |
| 6 | In testimony before a court that will eventually rule on whether or not paintings from the Barnes Collection will go on tour for the first time , a conservator argued that several of the Barnes masterpieces should not tour under any circumstances . |
| 7 | Perhaps many other abbots had also been monks of the houses they eventually ruled , and Cnut did not always take much interest in their selection . |
| 8 | Hampden 's cousin , Oliver Cromwell , eventually ruled Britain . |
| 9 | During March and April 1991 Denmark came under pressure from France to join the WEU , but while Poul Schlüter , the Prime Minister of a minority coalition , was known to be sympathetic to the idea , it was equally apparent that the largest party in parliament , the Social Democrats , would effectively rule out such a move . |
| 10 | ‘ such occasions [ when a judge may properly rule that a document ordinarily immune in the public interest should in the public interest be disclosed ] will be exceptional and the fluctuating fortunes of parties in litigious combat will rarely justify a judge in disturbing an immunity firmly rooted in the public interest . |
| 11 | A scientific law or theory should ideally give us some information about how the world does in fact behave , thereby ruling out ways in which it could ( logically ) possibly behave but in fact does not . |
| 12 | The Institute says that an undientified virus is to blame , thereby ruling out bacteria , mycoplasmas and other agents such as the ones which cause scrapie . |
| 13 | A Labour Chancellor will hope that by publically ruling out devaluation this would pre-empt a run on sterling and would limit any base rate rise to ½ per cent at most — thus avoiding a mortgage rate rise . |
| 14 | The first stage , it should be noted , does not necessarily rule out the possibility of ontological pluralism , unless it explicitly includes the thesis of independence of substance ; it merely involves a rejection of the view that properties and relations are two mutually separate and incommensurable categories , with relations allegedly being purely extrinsic " to ( and hence making no difference to the essential nature of ) their terms . |
| 15 | While in talks with his own advisers the president did not necessarily rule out armed action at some later date , he vetoed a CIA plan to " topple Nasser " . |
| 16 | Do n't entirely rule out the ultimate staging of a joint men 's and women 's event . |
| 17 | And can we entirely rule out topless by-laws , or the topless watchdog committee ( with the function of monitoring the behavioural effects of toplessness ) ? |
| 18 | On Aug. 9 Cuomo stated that Bush could be defeated by an aggressive campaign which focused on domestic issues , but suggested that he was not interested in seeking the nomination , although he did not entirely rule out the possibility . |
| 19 | Now that does not entirely rule out any possibility of the new settlement within the Selby area , as er Mr has implied . |
| 20 | ( 25 ) If someone who has been instructed to construct a building is prepared to give the money to the town for it to do so itself , since the testator wished this to be done by that person himself , his plea will not be heard : so ruled the late emperor Marcus in a rescript . |
| 21 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 22 | Douglas held that they dare not risk this , Ramsay agreeing , and they persuaded his uncle to so rule . |
| 23 | This was important because the ruling class ( and the state which was its instrument ) did not merely rule by coercion — which for our purposes means in particular by punishing people for breaking its laws . |
| 24 | Local people also lose out because , even on LDDC owned land , 85 per cent of the 15,000 houses are for sale , so ruling out local people needing to rent in precisely those London boroughs with notoriously long waiting lists for council accommodation . |
| 25 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 26 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 27 | The increases were slow to develop , apparently ruling out proteins as immediate retrograde messengers . |
| 28 | Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups ( a point on which the government side had long insisted ) , the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system . |
| 29 | However , he said , his commission was empowered only to investigate matters directly related to the " current " violence , apparently ruling out investigation of past incidents . |
| 30 | Some of these may immediately appear irrelevant , but it is necessary to consider them briefly , if only to rule them out . |