Example sentences of "rules [adv prt] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind .
2 The individualistic bias that Rawls is accused of by Nagel is not that he rules out such conceptions but that he is not neutral regarding them because he makes their successful pursuit more difficult than that of individualistic conceptions of the good .
3 The demand for a high degree of falsifiability rules out such manoeuvres .
4 Each language has its own phraseology , its own idiom which rules out many options that are potentially available as grammatical sequences .
5 If the new firm is able to accept instructions , it must take all proper steps to erect the " Chinese Wall " to preserve the confidentiality of the client 's affairs : the stringency and complexity of this pretty well rules out any possibility that instructions could be accepted from more than one of the clients involved .
6 Tight security at the firmly sealed jail also rules out any video recording .
7 Both need to be studied , and studied historically , politically , and critically , and that rules out any reliance upon the constitutional approach .
8 Equally , the insistence by Mr Molyneaux that there can be no distinction between the treatment of Northern Ireland and any ( highly limited and purely administrative ) devolution conceded to Scotland , when Mr Major finally ‘ takes stock ’ , rules out any power-sharing or north-south ‘ Irish dimension ’ — minimum requirements for the SDLP .
9 The defeat virtually rules out any chance of the Sunday League title , with just one win from their first five matches .
10 ‘ And certainly rules out any motive for murder . ’
11 And the depth of his ideological commitment to maintaining Israel 's hold over the West Bank rules out any acceptance of the principle that negotiations should eventually lead to an exchange of land for peace .
12 The use of eqn ( 10.18 ) shows that this monster would only radiate 10 -30 W of gravitational wave power : this rules out any laboratory equivalent of Hertz 's experiment for the production and detection of gravitational waves .
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