Example sentences of "[pron] rule out " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rule out nothing . ’ |
| 2 | I 've reached a stage where I ca n't be bothered with a lot of these guys , but if I rule out the ones who take drugs from my circle of friends I will be left with literally no one to socialise with . |
| 3 | They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door . |
| 4 | It follows the company 's jobs-for-life Rover Tomorrow deal signed earlier this year , which ruled out compulsory redundancies . |
| 5 | Koch decided that no exchange could be located within 1,000 feet of a school , which ruled out the possibility of a communitybased programme . |
| 6 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 7 | It was other evidence which ruled out this model . |
| 8 | England 's batting in this Test has been as dodgy as the plate of prawns which ruled out captain Graham Gooch . |
| 9 | Saunders has a cloud over him with the possibility of legal action by Paul Elliott over a tackle which ruled out the Chelsea defender for the season . |
| 10 | Also at fault is the new broadcasting law , which rules out many potential buyers . |
| 11 | Stencil , in short , pursues a quest the absurdity of which rules out the modernist option of structuring by myth . |
| 12 | If 4000 records are stored in 5000 addresses then only one algorithm in every will achieve this , which rules out a search for a perfect randomizing algorithm on a trial-and-error basis . |
| 13 | Each language has its own phraseology , its own idiom which rules out many options that are potentially available as grammatical sequences . |
| 14 | And unlike most of the blondes popping up in Aussie soaps she does n't fit into the bimbo mould either , which rules out many of the high-profile parts . |
| 15 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 16 | Perhaps no one 's missing from the Irish ferry , which rules out one line of inquiry . ’ |
| 17 | Mr , you ruled out initially sectors three , four and five |
| 18 | You r did I understand correctly that you ruled out sector six on grounds of coalescence ? |
| 19 | She ruled out topical references and jokes , understanding perfectly that her executive producer was incapable of appreciating either . |
| 20 | She ruled out the idea of workfare , where claimants are forced to work for benefits or have them withdrawn , for all three million unemployed . |
| 21 | I suppose in asking that question I 've got to ask you to rule out er all transactions er which have sort of transacted through New York and London at the same , or , or at different times , because quite clearly the Good Committee would er all their suggestions would fail on that behalf You 've just destroyed the question I was going to ask you really before I got to the question . |
| 22 | Why , in particular , should we rule out a fourth possibility , that the origin of life is a far more probable event than is suggested by Statement 3 ? |
| 23 | We rule out this second way in which a true belief may be too luckily true to count as knowledge by adding a fourth clause to the initial three : |
| 24 | As , ( 6.8 ) becomes since we assume that the second term on the right-hand side of ( 6.8 ) vanishes at , which will occur if is finite ( i.e. , we rule out speculative bubbles ) . |
| 25 | ‘ … if we rule out Aries and Leo that leaves only Sagittarius . ’ |
| 26 | Why were n't they ruled out of order before they transgressed ? |
| 27 | The French , despite an exceptionally tough policy , still have interest rates above the German level because they are unable to persuade the markets they mean what they say when they rule out a devaluation . |
| 28 | In an article in today 's Mail on Sunday Dr Owen also warns Tory leaders that if they rule out coalition with the Liberal Democrats they could end 13 years in |
| 29 | But none are so pervasive , nor so completely satisfactory , that they rule out the need for other lines of explanation . |
| 30 | They rule out charges because of their clinical implications — even non-clinical fees like hotel charges are shown to have clinical affects by deterring some patients from coming into hospital or persuading others to leave too soon . |