Example sentences of "[conj] rule out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , some of these indications are quite likely to be related to problems other than faulty vision , but since sight problems may be causing them , a screening test which is , after all , quick and easy to perform should help to confirm or rule out defective vision as a reason for concern . |
| 2 | Mills was n't gay , so that ruled out a killing of that sort . |
| 3 | China has recognised that to rule out direct elections would be bad public relations , but has yet to settle on how to describe its proposed dictatorship . |
| 4 | For I believe that it is determinism that rules out moral responsibility and other things we believe in … " |
| 5 | Because the picrite basalts show only a shallow correlation between Nd and Os isotope variation , the data neither require nor rule out the hyperbolic mixing curves ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 6 | People do not want standards that tie companies down comprehensively or that rule out the use of judgment . |
| 7 | Given the general anxiety to avoid long-term indebtedness , a stated preference for small instalments — even at the expense of a long repayment period — must often be interpreted as recognition of tight budget limits that rule out larger instalments . |
| 8 | Sir Robert pledged that Walker would continue to operate as an autonomous business and ruled out closures in its network of distribution centres . |
| 9 | He stated that the British were not persuaded by the move for major changes in the institutional balance within the Community and ruled out the proposals for giving the European Parliament the right of co-decision over the Council of Ministers on legislative matters . |
| 10 | But , even though it discouraged optimism and ruled out the possibility of progress , it did not weigh too heavily on medieval historians , particularly because the year 1000 which had been awaited by many with a mixture of hope and trepidation , had passed without any sign of the world coming to an end . |
| 11 | PREMIER John Major yesterday assured the Chancellor his job was safe and ruled out a festive Cabinet shake-up . |
| 12 | The Labour Party ceased to contest by-elections and ruled out extra-Parliamentary agitation of any kind as incompatible with its membership of the Government . |
| 13 | NIGEL JEMSON last night shrugged aside the most embarrassing moment of his career and ruled out any showdown with Trevor Francis . |
| 14 | Opening a debate on public spending , the Prime Minister tried to mend fences with the Tory Right by vowing that Britain would not join a single European currency in the next seven years , and ruled out any return to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism in this Parliament . |
| 15 | Opening a debate on public spending , the Prime Minister tried to mend fences with the Tory Right by vowing that Britain would not join a single European currency in the next seven years , and ruled out any return to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism in this Parliament . |
| 16 | God Akhenaten was his prophet and in fact claimed to be the son of God his son and er all other religions were persecuted and er , so what in Ancient Egypt was that the traditional polytheism which was rampant was persecuted by there was only one god and as Andrea says , even proscribe the word gods in , in the plural , you know the , you know the er feminist thought police would try and rule out certain words you 're not allowed to use like chairman which has become chairperson or something like that |
| 17 | It will prove difficult for MPs and peers to amend and rules out favoured alternatives . |
| 18 | The absence of an index limits a book 's scope and rules out its use as a reference tool . |
| 19 | The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval . |
| 20 | ‘ And rules out one thing : that she fell overboard by accident . ’ |
| 21 | Both Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young deny any negligence on their part and rule out any suggestion of an out-of-court settlement . |
| 22 | The textual norms of each genre will further suggest certain options and rule out others that are grammatically acceptable and may , in other genres , be textually acceptable as well . |
| 23 | The meeting voted for a revision of the Constitution to allow the head of state to appoint a Prime Minister but ruled out the introduction of a multiparty system . |
| 24 | Converters made of chromite and copper oxide were considered as long ago as the 1970s , but ruled out because they proved less effective than those containing the more precious metals . |
| 25 | But ruled out of the squad at the moment are Liverpool 's Ronnie Whelan , Sheffield Wednesday 's John Sheridan and Celtic 's Tommy Coyne . |
| 26 | That permits rather trivial definitions of good such as ‘ good is what is intrinsically valuable ’ , but rules out all more interesting definitions . |
| 27 | This did not advocate a particular option but commented on specific alternatives ( for example , local sales tax , local income tax , poll tax , an assigned share of national taxes ) while ruling out others ( for example , local duties on petrol , alcohol or tobacco , local vehicle excise duty ; charges for licences for sale of alcohol or petrol ; and a local payroll tax ) . |
| 28 | The sodium and calcium cations , Na+ and Ca2+ , would loosely bond to these oxygens occupying occasional holes and voids in the glass-forming network ; that the modifying cations might have a well-defined local structure was all but ruled out . |
| 29 | A Scottish engineer called Fleeming Jenkin pointed out that the fact ( as it was thought to be ) of blending inheritance all but ruled out natural selection as a plausible theory of evolution . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , a new home should n't be so small as to rule out the possibilities of shared living again one day . |