Example sentences of "be ruled " in BNC.
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| 1 | The variety is enormous but many can be ruled out in not satisfying all the requirements . |
| 2 | Publicly the banks have suggested that there could be dire consequences for the City should the deals be ruled illegal . |
| 3 | But if we are to move towards the maximum recycling of plastics , and the maximum environmental benefit , then food packaging should not be ruled out . |
| 4 | John Chadwick , QC , counsel for four of the banks which stand to lose millions of pounds should the deals be ruled void , said enforceability depends on how they might be judged unlawful . |
| 5 | And it can not be ruled out that even higher interest rates - whatever the political consequences — would be used in the last resort . |
| 6 | Should this well-behaved and well-intentioned parliament fail , then its failure will merely be infinitely depressing vindication of the theory that Russia — and a fortiori the Soviet Union — can only be ruled by a rod of iron . |
| 7 | Research shows that less than 10 per cent of listeners to Radio 1 are regular record buyers , so it would be unrepresentative of our audience 's taste to be ruled by the movements of the singles ' chart . |
| 8 | Mona , two years younger , was the more likely to clash with him , but this day she agreed to be ruled by Maggie 's acquiescence . |
| 9 | He had spoken earnestly , some years before , about finding the right girl to marry , about not letting his head be ruled by his heart ; but come the day , he had married because he had fallen in love . |
| 10 | Mr Jack Adams , chairman of the union side , said that action would have to take place within a 28-day period from yesterday 's anouncement or it would be ruled out of order . |
| 11 | A further 40,000 boat people still waiting to be screened will almost certainly be ruled illegal as well . |
| 12 | A violent struggle for economic and political control can not be ruled out . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union is falling to pieces ; a bloody struggle for those pieces can not be ruled out . |
| 14 | Do they want to continue to be ruled by communists ? |
| 15 | He supposed that Mr Cottle could not be ruled out as a suspect , but he hardly seemed a likely killer . |
| 16 | Ought Ulster not be ruled by the monarch of Scotland ? |
| 17 | I really , strongly do not want to be ruled by such people — people with America 's political correctness , but without the American love of liberty ; people with the Continent 's dirigisme , but without a Continental breadth of culture ; people with a modern metropolitan 's contempt for his own country 's traditions , but a bumpkin 's ignorance of economics . |
| 18 | I hope your excellent paper will bring pressure to bear on the media and make April 23 a special day , and make the English realise they want to be ruled by their own countryman . |
| 19 | So , too , is the risk that an overcooked spinners ' pitch may be ruled out of order and points deducted at umpires ' question time . |
| 20 | An agreement on a method for choosing between perfectionist principles can not be ruled out on the grounds that the methods of evaluating different ideals are themselves subject to evaluative controversy . |
| 21 | There was no evidence for sparking , says Pilling , but it can not be ruled out . |
| 22 | The state stands for , in an abstract sense , the final repository of agreement of the people to be ruled , and therefore an ultimate legitimation , backed up in the last instance , by the state 's claim to the monopoly of legitimate use of force . |
| 23 | Notwithstanding some products marketed as sanitisers can be effective disinfectants when used as such and the use of sanitisers in some circumstances should not be ruled out . |
| 24 | ‘ Carefully , though ; he 'll maybe not be ruled as easy as Hugh Despoins . ’ |
| 25 | But crucially , although oppressive confessions may be ruled out , the Act goes on to provide that the fact ‘ that a confession is wholly or partly excluded … shall not affect the admissibility in evidence of any facts discovered as a result of the confession ’ . |
| 26 | Indeed , the possibility that he may actually have known Rodrigo can not be ruled out , and offers a tantalizing possibility that we may be reading a first-hand account . |
| 27 | It is intended that the system of Special Discounts should continue in subsequent years , although the percentage discount and the rules by which policies will qualify may vary from year to year and the possibility can not be ruled out that circumstances may arise which would make it inappropriate to grant any Special Discount at all . |
| 28 | While some genetic influence can not be ruled out , just what is inherited remains very unclear . |
| 29 | It owed so much that The Saturday Review on three occasions said that it should be ruled ‘ out of court ’ . |
| 30 | This has to be ruled out when the movement of the glass begins to make sense of letters , and even phrases . |