Example sentences of "is ruled out " in BNC.

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1 If Bell is ruled out as too old and Ramsey as too new , who else has stature ?
2 Rut this is ruled out on a number of counts .
3 If nucleic acids are the only carriers of heredity , and if the central dogma is correct , then Lamarckism is ruled out .
4 Rugby Union : Campese is ruled out
5 Furthermore , the implementation of some conceptions of the good is incompatible with the principles of justice and is ruled out altogether .
6 It seems reasonable to suppose that they should be , if the contentious area of imaginative literature is ruled out .
7 It is illegal to put large quantities of animal faeces in household waste for collection , so that idea is ruled out .
8 But even if the question of necessity is ruled out , the notion that events in outer space influence Earth and its atmosphere , as well as the nature and distribution of animal life , is now a substantive truth .
9 Aqib is ruled out of tomorrow 's ( WED ) decisive one-day game in Auckland — the series is now level at 1-1 — but can return for the solitary Test of the Pakistan tour , starting at Hamilton on Saturday .
10 Sadly for Crusaders , ace goal-kicker and second row , Chris Smith , is ruled out with rib cartilage damage .
11 And Saints ' hopes of closing the gap on League leaders Wigan will take a dive if the 35-year-old is ruled out of their Christmas derby clashes against the Central Park champions and Widnes .
12 United 'keeper Simon Tracey is ruled out after dislocating a shoulder .
13 Remittance is ruled out
14 Defender David Bardsley is ruled out of today 's match at Southampton by an ankle injury picked up playing for England in Spain , while Andy Sinton is also very doubtful with a sore foot .
15 If Batty is ruled out , Rocky joins the queue of quality midfielders along with Gordon Strachan , Steve Hodge and fellow new-boy Scott Sellars .
16 Sachin Tendulkar is ruled out because of India 's Sri Lankan tour next July .
17 With laboratory test results negative for HIV infection , AIDS is ruled out for surveillance purposes unless the patient has had :
18 A minor road skirts its western base but a direct climb from it is ruled out by unremitting steepness and a barrier of rocky buttresses , the ascent usually being made over gentler ground from the north .
19 Doing their own thing in this case means spreading CICS around as promiscuously as possible : nothing is ruled out , they say — assuming that they customer wants it , not even a Macintosh server version .
20 The isocurvature CDM model with ( Fig. 1 a ) is ruled out at the 99% level and exceeds the COBE fluctuations at the level ( compare with ref. 32 ) .
21 The halfway house of floating a part of the equity of the better businesses while retaining a majority is ruled out by the fact that the units so treated have to have a three-year separate trading record first .
22 Right-back Andy Hill is ruled out by a stomach strain and veteran Ray Ranson will fill the gap .
23 Right-back Andy Hill is ruled out by a stomach strain and veteran Ray Ranson will fill the gap .
24 The argument is that just as direct democracy is ruled out by the size of the modern state , so too once companies grow beyond a certain size it is no longer possible to involve all their members directly in the decisions concerning the running of the company .
25 Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out .
26 a reduction in men 's pensionable age is ruled out for the foreseeable future on grounds of cost … on the other hand , the government believes that raising the pensionable age for women would be unfair to women who have contributed over the years in the expectation of a pension at 60 .
27 No idea is ruled out during the period of the brainstorming .
28 However this interpretation is ruled out by the following co-text and his wife overhears him .
29 This is ruled out , however , not only by the difficulty of finding a paraphrase of the supposed superordinate sense , but also by the clearly zeugmatic nature of 68 :
30 This does not necessarily mean that a diversity of penal aims is ruled out , but each of the different aims must be justified by the same general philosophy if our position is to be coherent .
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