Example sentences of "can not be ruled " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it can not be ruled out that even higher interest rates - whatever the political consequences — would be used in the last resort . |
| 2 | A violent struggle for economic and political control can not be ruled out . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union is falling to pieces ; a bloody struggle for those pieces can not be ruled out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was no evidence for sparking , says Pilling , but it can not be ruled out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | While some genetic influence can not be ruled out , just what is inherited remains very unclear . |
| 9 | Your failing to note that two periods of years were involved is a serious omission , Another serious omission relates to the quotation attributed to Mr Parrish that ‘ a decrease [ in harp seal population ] can not be ruled out ’ . |
| 10 | The first four months of 1993 could be a tricky time for family relationships and an acrimonious parting of the ways can not be ruled out — even if it is just a temporary estrangement . |
| 11 | Andrew Benson , an analyst at BZW , believes a postponement of the demerger can not be ruled out . |
| 12 | Some of the gold , however , was clearly derived from an ultrabasic source ; local higher-level epithermal mineralisation can not be ruled out , but seems unlikely . |
| 13 | Pru motor premiums have gone up three times this year and house contents insurance rose by 20p in the £1 this July and further increases can not be ruled out . |
| 14 | Certainly a Settle & Carlisle or two can not be ruled out . |
| 15 | While Sotheby 's has been ‘ a cash positive business ’ in the boom years , Taubman 's financial activities are clearly ‘ cash negative ’ and the possibility that he will pull out of the company altogether can not be ruled out . |
| 16 | A vote of no confidence in both the prime minister and the speaker of the National Assembly , and therefore much disagreeable horsetrading , can not be ruled out . |
| 17 | The alignment of predicted v 1 values with histogram peak spacings makes major changes in n unlikely , but minor changes can not be ruled out . |
| 18 | Such a mass outflow from the nuclear region of NGC4258 can not be ruled out , because strong radio continuum emission and optical jets or bubbles are emitted from the nucleus , indicating some outflow mechanism at work in the region . |
| 19 | Therefore a carbonaceous asteroid , although unlikely , can not be ruled out as an explanation of the Tunguska event . |
| 20 | Although it can not be ruled out that some unconscious oro-pharyngeal muscle movement was occurring during the experimental tasks , ‘ inner speech ’ is probably not dependent on such movements . |
| 21 | With some of the poorer ones the possibility of misunderstandings can not be ruled out . |
| 22 | Clearly a high turnover in the course of fifteen years can not be ruled out , but nonetheless subletting looks probable unless tenurial conditions discouraged long occupancies : the lease of the manor farm was dated 1534 . |
| 23 | The outstanding historical and artistic significance of the costume makes it an obvious target for acquisition by a British museum : the possibility of a serious bid by the Victoria and Albert Museum , perhaps with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund can not be ruled out . |
| 24 | However , the nature of the social structures and processes which affect the drug-taking behaviour of the population continue to undergo great changes , and , in the final analysis , the possibility that the prevalence of heroin use in Wirral will peak but not fall can not be ruled out . |
| 25 | If , by contextual manipulation , we can reduce the apparent oddness , or at least cause it to be perceived as communicatively appropriate , then we can take it that we are dealing with a semantic deviance ( although the involvement of grammatical elements can not be ruled out ) . |
| 26 | However securely based on observation a statement may seem to be , the possibility that new theoretical advances will reveal inadequacies in that statement can not be ruled out . |
| 27 | A theory can not be conclusively falsified , because the possibility that some part of the complex test situation , other than the theory under test , is responsible for an erroneous prediction can not be ruled out . |
| 28 | The possibility of suicide can not be ruled out . |
| 29 | The urge for an independent central bank and a proposed Euro central bank comes at a particularly dangerous time , when recessions , depressions and even a slump can not be ruled out . |
| 30 | However , a direct vasomotor effect of central neuropeptide Y on the nepatic artery vasculature , resulting in increased blood flow , can not be ruled out entirely and may indeed be the mechanism causing the observed effect on biliary secretion in dogs where the arterial component to blood flow is significant as opposed to rats . |