Example sentences of "[adv] rule out " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 2 | Together with the Socialist Party ( 142 seats ) and a new Christian Democratic party called the Mouvement Républicain Populaire ( 152 seats ) , the PCF formed a bloc which effectively ruled out the possibility of any constitution that de Gaulle could approve . |
| 3 | I could see that Aunt Louise did not altogether rule out nuns . |
| 4 | During March and April 1991 Denmark came under pressure from France to join the WEU , but while Poul Schlüter , the Prime Minister of a minority coalition , was known to be sympathetic to the idea , it was equally apparent that the largest party in parliament , the Social Democrats , would effectively rule out such a move . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A Labour Chancellor will hope that by publically ruling out devaluation this would pre-empt a run on sterling and would limit any base rate rise to ½ per cent at most — thus avoiding a mortgage rate rise . |
| 8 | The first stage , it should be noted , does not necessarily rule out the possibility of ontological pluralism , unless it explicitly includes the thesis of independence of substance ; it merely involves a rejection of the view that properties and relations are two mutually separate and incommensurable categories , with relations allegedly being purely extrinsic " to ( and hence making no difference to the essential nature of ) their terms . |
| 9 | While in talks with his own advisers the president did not necessarily rule out armed action at some later date , he vetoed a CIA plan to " topple Nasser " . |
| 10 | Do n't entirely rule out the ultimate staging of a joint men 's and women 's event . |
| 11 | And can we entirely rule out topless by-laws , or the topless watchdog committee ( with the function of monitoring the behavioural effects of toplessness ) ? |
| 12 | On Aug. 9 Cuomo stated that Bush could be defeated by an aggressive campaign which focused on domestic issues , but suggested that he was not interested in seeking the nomination , although he did not entirely rule out the possibility . |
| 13 | Now that does not entirely rule out any possibility of the new settlement within the Selby area , as er Mr has implied . |
| 14 | Local people also lose out because , even on LDDC owned land , 85 per cent of the 15,000 houses are for sale , so ruling out local people needing to rent in precisely those London boroughs with notoriously long waiting lists for council accommodation . |
| 15 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 16 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 17 | The increases were slow to develop , apparently ruling out proteins as immediate retrograde messengers . |
| 18 | Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups ( a point on which the government side had long insisted ) , the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system . |
| 19 | However , he said , his commission was empowered only to investigate matters directly related to the " current " violence , apparently ruling out investigation of past incidents . |
| 20 | Notice that the experiment only rules out one ( or a few ) experimental factors . |
| 21 | They accept all too easily the public/private distinction and so rule out a consideration of those " privately " made decisions in the economic sphere that have profound implications for the life chances of millions of people . |
| 22 | Since there is no appeal against the opinion of the Commission , these findings do appear to exhaust the scope of this particular policy-changing strategy for the time being , though given the interest shown by the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in extending the right of conscientious objection , a change in the provisions of the Convention itself can not be entirely ruled out . |
| 23 | But the possibility that Kirkby Thore , also a walled town , and some 30 km ( 19 miles ) south of Carlisle , was the capital can not be entirely ruled out . |
| 24 | The most interesting example though is of a man whose name was probably Barathes ; he is described as a Palmyrene , from Syria , and also as a vexillarius , most likely a manufacturer or merchant of military standards , although the possibility that he was a standard-bearer can not be entirely ruled out . |
| 25 | Nor were defensive measures in conjunction with the United States entirely ruled out , but the British Chiefs of Staff believed that in the worst eventuality they could hold the Kra Isthmus ( to the north of Malaya ) against the Chinese . |
| 26 | As they did not regard the existing ‘ Democratic Republic ’ as representative of the people of Annam and Tonkin ( the question of Cochinchina tended not to be raised ) this obviously ruled out serious negotiation . |
| 27 | Although President dos Santos had long expressed his willingness to form such a government , the agreement marked a significant policy change for Savimbi who had hitherto ruled out political co-operation with the MPLA-PT . |
| 28 | In these cases , letter string combinations are only ruled out if they do not occur in the sample source . |
| 29 | But Kirillov has himself pointedly ruled out life after death : ‘ the laws of nature did not spare even Him ’ — Jesus , that is . |
| 30 | The Commission went on to rule out all the obvious options : supplementary insurance , charges , a hypothecated tax , local tax , and even a state lottery . |