Example sentences of "[vb -s] out one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kohl rules out one Germany before Europe itself unites . |
| 2 | ‘ And rules out one thing : that she fell overboard by accident . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps no one 's missing from the Irish ferry , which rules out one line of inquiry . ’ |
| 4 | It singles out one form of non-marital living arrangement and penalises it ( if the woman sets up house with her sister , her father , her adult children or her lesbian lover she would still have some entitlement to SB ) . |
| 5 | Any complex referential symbol , or a string of such symbols , theoretically speaking , can apply to any number of individuals , but a proper name picks out one object , and one object only , spanning , as it were , the latter 's entire career . |
| 6 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 7 | She picks out one letter from Damascus , sent via Geneva . |