Example sentences of "not be ruled " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 And it can not be ruled out that even higher interest rates - whatever the political consequences — would be used in the last resort .
3 A violent struggle for economic and political control can not be ruled out .
4 The Soviet Union is falling to pieces ; a bloody struggle for those pieces can not be ruled out .
5 He supposed that Mr Cottle could not be ruled out as a suspect , but he hardly seemed a likely killer .
6 Ought Ulster not be ruled by the monarch of Scotland ?
7 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 .
8 There was no evidence for sparking , says Pilling , but it can not be ruled out .
9 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 .
10 ‘ Carefully , though ; he 'll maybe not be ruled as easy as Hugh Despoins . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 While some genetic influence can not be ruled out , just what is inherited remains very unclear .
14 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 ’ .
15 It was films depicting behaviour which seemed perverse or deviant which were seen as more suitable for private therapy than for public consumption , since the possibility of harm to at least a proportion of the wider public could not be ruled out .
16 If that were so , why not be ruled by Mickey Mouse ?
17 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 .
18 Andrew Benson , an analyst at BZW , believes a postponement of the demerger can not be ruled out .
19 Previously the possibility that Honda viewed the links as only short-term could not be ruled out .
20 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 .
21 Since everyone wanted reform the students could not be ruled out of order .
22 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 .
23 Certainly a Settle & Carlisle or two can not be ruled out .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Earlier , the Federal Reserve said that higher short-term interest rates , currently 3% , should not be ruled out .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Therefore a carbonaceous asteroid , although unlikely , can not be ruled out as an explanation of the Tunguska event .
30 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 .
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