Example sentences of "[adj] rule out " in BNC.
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| 1 | That ruled out sugar-daddies . |
| 2 | That ruled out using the traditional aluminium-based tubes in favour of all-plastic laminated tubes that retain their shape regardless of how often they are squeezed . |
| 3 | The administration in the United States ( which had never formally recognized the incorporation of the three Baltic republics into the Soviet Union ) on March 12 ruled out such recognition until independence had been properly negotiated with the Soviet authorities , and it called on the latter to respect Lithuania 's declaration , and on all parties to avoid violence . |
| 4 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
| 5 | This ruled out ( for example ) affective measures of attitude which might well also be capable of yielding insight into the individual 's degree of integration with the group . |
| 6 | While a new regulation in 1985 ruled out the option of global additionality , the question of individual additionality still remained for the future . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be wrong to rule out military action for all time . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Such a power would mean a capacity to see God directly which they are careful to rule out . |
| 10 | However it is linked to these things because they and it are part of a complex whole , and this rules out the simple correlations between two elements which Engels sought to establish in his ‘ historical ’ discussion . |
| 11 | This rules out radical new ventures . |
| 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 . |
| 13 | All this rules out any causative connection between biography and literature , but there are cases where the Formalists allow biography a legitimate literary function . |
| 14 | This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 15 | Although I am much in favour of that union , the Government were right to rule out signing a declaration of intent alongside their treaty commitment . |
| 16 | Sun and ICL say they are there to ‘ endorse ’ HyperSparc , though neither rules out use of the part in future system plans . |
| 17 | That rules out competitors such as Empress , Focus and Progress , he says . |
| 18 | Both need to be studied , and studied historically , politically , and critically , and that rules out any reliance upon the constitutional approach . |
| 19 | He is unlikely to have sold by sample ; that rules out section J5 . |
| 20 | By definition the private seller did not sell in the course of a business ; that rules out the conditions in section 14 ( i.e. as to merchantable quality and fitness for purpose ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it did not at all rule out the possibility of these laws being enunciated by an enlightened monarch . |
| 25 | In an immediate response to the latest left-wing guerrilla offensive , the government on Sept. 5 ruled out the renewal of peace talks which had broken down in March [ see p. 38809 ] and were suspended indefinitely in May . |
| 26 | It emerged in May that a Commission ruling signed in February 1990 banned the export to other member states of live calves born to cows with BSE , but Gummer on May 17 ruled out any restrictions on such calves for use in Britain . |
| 27 | Vice-President Augustus Aikhomu on July 17 ruled out the possibility of war with Cameroon over the two neighbours ' long-running border dispute . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | Regular keeper Keith Mouncher returns after missing last week 's home defeat by Blyth , but Keith Muckle , Darren Brewis and Barrie Wilson are all ruled out . |
| 30 | 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 . |