Example sentences of "rule out [art] " in BNC.

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1 We are ruling out no possibilities of course , but the evidence suggests the crime was committed by a club resident . ’
2 Although the cause of the fire is n't yet known , one of the men who owns the farm says that he 's not ruling out an arson attack .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The collective " she " is presented in this list as if a natural immutable category , ruling out the possibility either of individual traits or of conditions explaining any of the points on the list which might be subject to change .
6 We have argued that such institutions should be public ( though not ruling out the possibility of a role , even an important role , for private actions , as an additional deterrent to abuses of market power ) ; that there should be a single investigating institution with powers to identify and to investigate cases , and to propose remedies , within a clearly stated framework of rules and guidelines ; that firms should be given an opportunity to make representations as to why the competition policy presumptions should not apply in a particular case ; and that there should be a competition tribunal with the task of reviewing and monitoring the recommendations of the competition policy institution .
7 In all cases , transcription was found to initiate at position +1 ( Fig. 2 ) , ruling out the possibility that the decrease in CytR regulation is caused by the introduction of a new promoter .
8 As regards the current European Communities-European Free Trade Area negotiations [ see p. 37906 ] , the programme avoided ruling out the possibility of an eventual application for EC membership .
9 Abbot Mark says he 's definitely ruling out the use of his mitre and crozier while refereeing on the river .
10 The Ulster Unionist Party , led by Mr James Molyneaux , has been careful to rule out a formal coalition and will decide on an ‘ issue by issue ’ basis whether to support a minority government .
11 Any candidate for the leadership will need to win the nomination of 55 Labour MPs , a barrier which is likely to rule out a challenge from a hard-Left contender , such as Mr Ken Livingstone .
12 Fairly weak conditions are sufficient to rule out a rise in k as a result of the tax .
13 Is my right hon. Friend aware that he carries the support of the vast majority in this House and in the country in his refusal to rule out a single currency on our terms at some future time ?
14 Since the Minister is anxious to avoid giving a commitment to set up a further education council , perhaps he could use the opportunity of replying to the debate to rule out a possibility which was raised in the press last year .
15 From the above results it appears that the positivity of either ANA-H or SMA-AA , although significantly associated with signs of marked immune stimulation ( higher hypergammaglobulinemia Table I ) , does not allow to rule out a coexistent hepatitis C virus infection .
16 Kokmen et al , in an investigation of clinical risk factors for AD , stated : ‘ We are unable to rule out a similar increase in risk with a history of previous meningitis or encephalitis ’ , which indicates a possible relation between AD and our 5 positive cases .
17 Our findings appear to rule out a role for CREM but do suggest that ATF1 is a candidate for ICR .
18 The finance minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , appeared this week to rule out an increase in either taxation or the budget deficit .
19 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 .
20 A water soluble contrast swallow seems an excellent screening tool to rule out an oesophageal perforation .
21 Lord Mackay appeared to rule out an extension of legal aid to cover defamation cases .
22 But Mr Rifkind appeared to rule out the scheme to pay fishermen to leave the industry .
23 The former Cabinet minister refused to rule out the possibility in the wake of his scornful accusation that the Prime Minister 's shrewd political instincts had been led astray by the ‘ Irish logic ’ of the Foreign Office , though he did say it was ‘ very unlikely ’ .
24 The suggested causes of a given phenomenon can not always be independently observed , and so it is hard to rule out the possibility of there being explanations alternative to the one proposed .
25 Nevertheless , a new home should n't be so small as to rule out the possibilities of shared living again one day .
26 First the polarisation detectors were not far enough apart to rule out the possibility of overlapping single-particle wave functions ; and secondly the pairs of detected photons were not space-like separated — a signal travelling at the speed of light could have passed between the two sets of apparatus .
27 It is absolutely vital in any activity in this field that there must be a clearly specified objective , which would therefore seem to rule out the Blue Skies approach outlined here .
28 For the same reason many other factors have to be controlled in order to rule out the possibility that the observed correlations might not be due to these other causes .
29 It refused to rule out the inclusion of other factors for determining whether a borrower was likely to default or not — like disability or homosexuality .
30 During the election campaign Premier John Major promised tax cuts , but Treasury chiefs refused yesterday to rule out the backdoor tax rise .
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