Example sentences of "rule out [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not advocate a particular option but commented on specific alternatives ( for example , local sales tax , local income tax , poll tax , an assigned share of national taxes ) while ruling out others ( for example , local duties on petrol , alcohol or tobacco , local vehicle excise duty ; charges for licences for sale of alcohol or petrol ; and a local payroll tax ) . |
| 2 | By taking into account the adequacy of the research designs , ruling out findings from small samples , weak measures and poor statistical analysis , Kessler and McLeod ( 1984 ) revealed a considerable amount of agreement about the positive effects of support . |
| 3 | As a result , it says , many potential buyers are ruling out plans to use NT as a mission-critical server operating system . |
| 4 | HAMPER firm Park Foods is not ruling out acquisitions and spending some of its cash pile , chairman Peter Johnson told the Daily Post yesterday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The increases were slow to develop , apparently ruling out proteins as immediate retrograde messengers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The duty of loyalty has generally been invoked to prevent directors from having a personal financial interest in a decision , whilst the duty to act not for any improper purpose has sometimes been invoked to rule out decisions where directors have some other sort of personal but not directly financial interest in the decision . |
| 9 | And Mr Levin , who has fashioned a complex web of small joint ventures with companies such as Silicon Graphics , a computer manufacturer , has also been careful not to rule out deals with bigger partners . |
| 10 | These probabilities were not used to rule out alternatives , rather to rank them in terms of their likelihood . |
| 11 | When meningitis of unknown cause occurs , it is important to rule out herpes B virus if there is any history of association with macaques or their tissue/cells . |
| 12 | The only explanation proposed to date for the absence of to after the modal auxiliaries ( Mittwoch 1990 : 127-9 ) is , by the author 's own admission , " entirely syntactic " : to is analysed as a modal itself , and since the grammar " must include a constraint against two modals in sequence in order to rule out examples such as * If John agreed to baby-sit , we would can go " , it follows that to and the modals can not co-occur . |
| 13 | Lawrence usually rules out players who do not train on the day before a game . |
| 14 | If so , Whiteside rules out convictions in such circumstances . |
| 15 | That rules out competitors such as Empress , Focus and Progress , he says . |
| 16 | A phrase from the Conservative 's manifesto last year , we are the only party that understands the need for low taxation , has now returned to haunt them , for an MP in a marginal constituency this evokes the electoral ghost of George Bush , so he firmly rules out increases in income tax , but would n't mind putting V A T on newspapers and books . |
| 17 | The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval . |
| 18 | The demand that , as a science progresses , its theories should become more and more falsifiable , and consequently have more and more content and be more and more informative , rules out modifications in theories that are designed merely to protect a theory from a threatening falsification . |
| 19 | A spokeswoman for the far-right Deutsche Volks- union said : ‘ We ca n't rule out demonstrations when she appears with Bonn government officials . ’ |
| 20 | Ford dismissed an immediate meeting with the unions but did not rule out talks after Christmas . |
| 21 | Science , as such , does not rule out miracles , though some scientists may reject them . |
| 22 | I could see that Aunt Louise did not altogether rule out nuns . |
| 23 | So if none of the above applies to you now , it does not rule out risks you or your partner may have taken in the past . |
| 24 | However , the proposed legislation would rule out reparations to the 3,500,000 blacks forcibly evicted and moved to " homelands " over the past 30 years . |
| 25 | ( 1990 ) ruled out differences in crime rate or detection rate or the use of different definitions of imprisonment . |
| 26 | That ruled out sugar-daddies . |
| 27 | Sir Robert pledged that Walker would continue to operate as an autonomous business and ruled out closures in its network of distribution centres . |
| 28 | However , he ruled out attempts to formulate foreign policy by majority voting which , as he pointed out , would have been disastrous in the Gulf and which were reinforced by the failed attempts to mediate in Yugoslavia . |
| 29 | In his acceptance speech , he called on industrialised countries to take steps to reduce worldwide demand for cocaine , he also ruled out pardons for drug traffickers , and said he 'd maintain extradition agreements . |
| 30 | Do these problems with identifying homologies rule out extrapolations between species ? |