Example sentences of "rule out [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Rail was ruling out King 's Cross at that stage , yet two or three years later BR tells us that King 's Cross is essential . |
| 2 | Whereas the most the Prime Minister had ever conceded before polling day was a vague pledge to ‘ take stock ’ , Mr Lang , while stressing the need to preserve the Union at all costs , said : ‘ I 'm certainly not ruling out change … |
| 3 | Meanwhile , it squarely embodies an assumption that causal laws are correlations , thus ruling out reference to structures and structural forces to explain the correlations . |
| 4 | Moreover , the developed aid had to fit in with our existing hardware strategy , ruling out specialist AI tool kits and LISP machines . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'm a great believer in learning to walk before you can run , ’ said Shaun , wisely , ‘ but I 'm not ruling out expansion . |
| 7 | However , he said , his commission was empowered only to investigate matters directly related to the " current " violence , apparently ruling out investigation of past incidents . |
| 8 | There 've been a spate of attacks on barns in the same area , and the owner of the farm involved in the latest fire says he 's not ruling out arson . |
| 9 | The Soviet Union gave appreciable assistance in cultivating a significant air strength in contrast to the United States , which concentrated solely on the army in the south , ruling out aid in the air and naval spheres . |
| 10 | On June 28 after the shooting incident US President Bush , describing Saddam Hussein as a " brutal bully " , refused to rule out speculation concerning a possible US-led military attack against Iraq to enforce compliance . |
| 11 | The Government are right not to rule out progress towards that , and to point out that a high degree of convergence of economies will be necessary before any single currency can be contemplated , agreed by this House , or sustained thereafter . |
| 12 | The Transport Secretary , Cecil Parkinson , has hinted at a possible change of heart by refusing to rule out government support , but a firm decision will have to be made soon if the deadline for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill , to be introduced in November , is to be met . |
| 13 | ‘ It would be stupid to rule out promotion because there is a long way to go and we are now looking a decent team , ’ he said . |
| 14 | THE Government refused yesterday to rule out legislation to ensure that coal has a better domestic market by requiring electricity generators to buy more . |
| 15 | Weekly cash wages payment is likely to rule out credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts , The forms of credit which it encourages are those involving weekly instalments : mail order , trading checks , tallymen and weekly credit callers . |
| 16 | Asked whether he now regretted remarks at a press conference two weeks ago where he refused to rule out sabotage , he said : ‘ I certainly regret inaccurate press reports of my remarks . |
| 17 | Although many valuable religious icons had not been removed , there was sufficient evidence of the building having been ransacked for the police to refuse to rule out robbery as a possible motive . |
| 18 | However , we will shortly use an economic rationality argument to rule out divergence in ( 6.9 ) and hence to rule out an infinite share price . |
| 19 | The lobby is threatening to campaign against the treaty unless the government clarifies the constitution to rule out abortion on demand . |
| 20 | Our son was murdered.Parents ask inquest to rule out suicide . |
| 21 | For a pattern recognition system which outputs alternative candidates for each letter position in a word , this fact can be exploited to rule out letter combinations which are not allowable in English . |
| 22 | In the use of n-grams or a dictionary check to rule out letter sequences that do not appear in English , the information needed is a list of English words , or perhaps a large corpus of text from which to extract such a list and/or the list of n-grams for whichever values of n are necessary . |
| 23 | If the recognition of spoken words is affected by preceding context then we would expect that this highly familiar context should be sufficient to rule out trestle and tress as possible candidates , despite their consistency with the partial word tres … . |
| 24 | He said it remained in the black but he refused to rule out job cuts at the factory , where 40 workers lost their jobs last year . |
| 25 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont refused point-blank to rule out tax increases yesterday . |
| 26 | Sentiment was also depressed by Chancellor Kenneth Clarke refusing to rule out tax rises in the November Budget . |
| 27 | Major rules out referendum |
| 28 | Hurd rules out devaluation |
| 29 | Reynolds rules out internment |
| 30 | Funding from one source often rules out funding from another . |