Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 Mr , you ruled out initially sectors three , four and five
4 You r did I understand correctly that you ruled out sector six on grounds of coalescence ?
5 She ruled out topical references and jokes , understanding perfectly that her executive producer was incapable of appreciating either .
6 She ruled out the idea of workfare , where claimants are forced to work for benefits or have them withdrawn , for all three million unemployed .
7 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 .
8 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 ?
9 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 :
10 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 ) .
11 ‘ … if we rule out Aries and Leo that leaves only Sagittarius . ’
12 Why were n't they ruled out of order before they transgressed ?
13 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 .
14 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
15 But none are so pervasive , nor so completely satisfactory , that they rule out the need for other lines of explanation .
16 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 .
17 Does he rule out any constitutional change ?
18 The Pentagon was interested in the role of certain Commonwealth countries as well as Britain herself , nor did it rule out separate arrangements with the more important of them if necessary .
19 Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials .
20 He ruled out credit controls when he was chancellor of the exchequer — but he also attacked the banks , in his 1990 budget , for their carefree personal lending .
21 One reason that he ruled out was the argument , derived from earlier cases , that fights in public should be prohibited because they tend to create disorder .
22 He ruled out the idea of travelling just as batsman .
23 However , he ruled out attempts to formulate foreign policy by majority voting which , as he pointed out , would have been disastrous in the Gulf and which were reinforced by the failed attempts to mediate in Yugoslavia .
24 He ruled out huge rolling jackpots of up to £20 million , believing they attract crime .
25 Rather he ruled out only very infrequent letter combinations , based on di-gram and tri-gram statistics .
26 He ruled out further help for the legalized opposition parties , saying that they needed time to win supporters , and that was why they had fared badly in the April elections .
27 However he ruled out opening up the political system to a number of parties , insisting that national unity must be achieved first .
28 The following day he ruled out , however , the idea of Baker going on to Baghdad as suggested by Iraq , apparently because of his belief that a series of meetings would only serve as a pretext for Iraq to delay any withdrawal from Kuwait .
29 He ruled out a UN role in the conference and insisted on Israel 's right to veto all members of any joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation .
30 Although Keating once again expressed optimism that the recession was bottoming out , he ruled out any further cuts in interest rates in the immediate future .
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