verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rule out/exclude a possibility (= say that something will definitely not happen or is definitely not true )
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We can't rule out the possibility that there will be more redundancies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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specifically
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Money held for business purposes is specifically excluded under all policies.
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It has written its growth management plan to specifically exclude residential development around Lego Park.
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The Act specifically excludes from its ambience cheques, safe-deposit books, membership certificates of co-operatives, and bills of exchange.
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Many policies specifically exclude rehabilitative or convalescent care.
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Such arrangements are specifically excluded from education and the social services.
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analysis
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The remaining students were excluded from the analysis .
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Children with missing values for gestational age or birth weight were excluded from the analysis .
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These patients were excluded from further analysis .
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One study did not use a double-blind design and was therefore excluded from the analysis .
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We exclude from the analysis those five observations where the output decision was quite clearly in the wrong ballpark.
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In addition a single visit was made to five sites, but these counts have been excluded from this analysis .
area
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Korematsu was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race.
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As the name implies, the service is limited to the graphics-rich World Wide Web, excluding discussion areas .
benefit
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The Government first attempted to exclude altogether supplementary benefit and national assistance from the scope of regulation 72.
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Thus the presence of dependants is used as a means of excluding women from benefits .
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Mr X and the spouse of Mr X may be excluded from all benefit .
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Mr X sets up an overseas trust under which he and his spouse are excluded from all benefit .
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The settlor and his spouse should thus effectively be excluded from all possible benefit under the trust.
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In other words, women's caring responsibilities are being used as a ground for excluding them from benefits .
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Nevertheless, these two last studies can not exclude a real benefit for the heater probe.
clause
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A general exclusion clause which excludes liability altogether is thus very unlikely to be reasonable under s 3.
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Two approaches to clauses which purport to exclude liability for breach of fiduciary duty are discernible.
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Some exclusion clauses do not totally exclude liability for a breach but only restrict it.
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A special mention should be made of the use of novel forms of clauses designed to exclude any possibility of judicial review.
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Such clauses exclude all prior representations and negotiations, and, usually, ancillary documentation, such as sales literature, as well.
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First there are straight forward clauses which purport to exclude or limit liability for breaches of fiduciary duty.
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Equally important is the last sentence of the clause which excludes prior representations and extraneous material, such as sales catalogues.
consideration
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They are expressive of the sentiments of retributive justice that Beccaria wished to exclude from consideration of punishments.
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He excluded from consideration the interest of the state in protecting innocent third parties and preventing suicide.
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This calculation excludes any consideration of time costs, which evidence suggests are considerable.
disease
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One specimen from each patient was examined histologically to exclude mucosal disease , notably microadenoma in familial adenomatous polyposis.
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Obstruction covered all mechanical obstruction to the urinary tract, excluding prostatic disease .
evidence
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It was also within the Special Commissioner's discretion to exclude opinion evidence that sought to answer the question before him.
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He ordered the drugs excluded from evidence .
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The Law Society also considers that the recommendation enabling judges to exclude relevant evidence in certain circumstances is capable of being abused.
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The decision whether to admit or exclude evidence lay with the court of trial.
group
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All that is necessarily involved is a sense of belonging that excludes indifference to the group as well as alienation from it.
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Extending the rights of man to women is not just another expansion of the social contract to include another excluded group .
liability
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Two approaches to clauses which purport to exclude liability for breach of fiduciary duty are discernible.
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A notice in the guest's room sought to exclude liability for loss or damage to guest's property.
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A clause which does not expressly mention conditions will not normally exclude liability for breach of condition.
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Those terms include terms which limit and exclude our liability for breaches of contract.
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Can he exclude his liability for negligence?
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First, it is impossible to exclude liability for death or personal injuries caused by negligence.
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Clauses which seek to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation are regulated by s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967.
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If the drafter wishes to exclude liability in such cases, he/she must therefore ensure that the wording is very clear.
party
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You can't get peace in Sierra Leone by excluding one of the parties in the peace process.
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Torgyan alerted the media to the takeover, which had involved his being physically excluded from party headquarters.
patient
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Patients with previous cholecystitis diagnosed by scintigraphic examination of the gall bladder were excluded .
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We excluded recently transfused patients and no patients had increased reticulocyte counts.
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Patients with gall stones or established inflammatory bowel disease were excluded .
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Exhaustive microbiological analysis were performed in order to exclude patients with gastrointestinal infection.
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Patients with secondary involvement of the stomach by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were therefore excluded .
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He excluded patients with cystic fibrosis by performing duodenal drainage tests for the measurements of pancreatic enzyme concentrations in the duodenal juice.
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However, at a clinical level such factors need to be excluded when examining a patient suspected of having dementia.
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Patients with abnormal liver function tests, gall stones, previous cholecystectomy, or hepatic metastases were excluded .
policy
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Some relocation policies exclude new recruits from receiving other allowances, such as travel and accommodation expenses.
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Our interview policy excludes no-one, and our pages have never been dominated by any one style.
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Many policies specifically exclude rehabilitative or convalescent care.
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The storm section of the policy excludes landslip damage but the damage could be covered under the landslip section of the policy.
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It should be noted that the policy excludes the theft of any pedal cycle left both unlocked and unattended away from the home.
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The policy excludes any part of the premises used for business purposes.
possibility
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We can not exclude the possibility , however, of abnormal metabolism of platelet activating factor in four of them.
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The second step is designed to exclude this possibility .
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For example although duration is commonly measured for tantrums, this does not exclude the possibility of measures of frequency.
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A special mention should be made of the use of novel forms of clauses designed to exclude any possibility of judicial review.
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Thus, for both of them the theory of forms excluded all possibility of evolution.
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However the courts are in general reluctant to exclude the possibility of such legal representation intoto within a particular area.
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The guidelines exclude the possibility of assessment of the bargain under the contract as described above.
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No description of such entities is so precise as to exclude apriori all possibility of an ambiguous reference.
process
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The professions have not been excluded from this process .
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And who is being excluded in this process ?
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Under the 1935 Act the hill areas were excluded from the political process .
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In practice, no group can be excluded from the process .
school
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The consequence is, therefore, that far fewer girls than boys are excluded from school .
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Must religion be completely excluded from schools ?
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She tells Karen that Victor is being excluded from school indefinitely for bullying and for kicking Joan.
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Truants and those excluded from school were five times more likely to take drugs.
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Nationally, 8% of black pupils are excluded from schools .
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They've all been partially excluded from mainstream schools , where they found it hard to fit in.
study
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Two patients from each group were excluded from the study after six months of active treatment.
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Patients with previous oesophageal or gastric surgery were excluded from the study .
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These confounding factors may largely be excluded by future case-control studies .
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People who said they wouldn't borrow money were excluded from this study .
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Patients with abnormal findings at endoscopy or who had had previous surgery were excluded from the study .
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The figure gives a detailed breakdown of patients included and excluded from the study .
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Subjects were excluded from the study if they suffered from any debilitating or life threatening disease, including invasive cancer.
woman
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Its use of active procedures tends to exclude women , for instance.
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There are many ways of excluding women .
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Thus the presence of dependants is used as a means of excluding women from benefits.
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The strategy of continuing to exclude women from the union did not prevent their recruitment in ever greater numbers by the employers.
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In understanding male power it is important to understand that masculine oligarchies exclude not only all women but most men.
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More social history is being taught but examination syllabuses still focus on political and economic history which conventionally excludes women .
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We excluded women with hypothyroidism and with hyperprolactinaemia related to drug treatment.
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The vote, which excludes ordination of women as bishops, needed only a simple majority.
■ VERB
feel
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I don't feel bitter about being excluded .
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It was hard for Kent, a new and very young company member as well as white, not to feel excluded .
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And you feel excluded by the lesbian communities.
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Nixon because he felt excluded from it, Kennedy because he considered it beneath him.
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When Miranda used to fizz about being in a play, I felt ... excluded .
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If you live long enough on South Vermont, you begin to feel not just excluded but out of the picture entirely.
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I feel jealous and excluded , but I am ashamed to say so.
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Connections' inaugural issue featured a front-page story by Scott Forman about growing up feeling different and excluded in a sighted world.
include
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Which is why a society that blithely accepts this included / excluded ledger is an unsafe society.
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Stili another possibility is final domestic sales which includes imports but excludes exports and inventory investment. 6.
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Furthermore, the shifting definition of an Elandsklower included and later excluded certain individuals from the register.
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Extending the rights of man to women is not just another expansion of the social contract to include another excluded group.
purport
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Two approaches to clauses which purport to exclude liability for breach of fiduciary duty are discernible.
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First there are straight forward clauses which purport to exclude or limit liability for breaches of fiduciary duty.
seek
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A notice in the guest's room sought to exclude liability for loss or damage to guest's property.
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Clauses which seek to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation are regulated by s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967.
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The haulier will seek to exclude his contractual liability for certain acts or omissions, just like any other shrewd businessman.
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In the fringing rural areas, existing residents seek to exclude lower income owner occupied developments.
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Experts could seek to exclude the implied duty of skill and care in individual references, but it is not attractive.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Joe felt sure the others were speaking Russian simply to exclude him.
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Kids who are excluded from school often end up getting into trouble with the police.
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She felt they were deliberately excluding her from their plans.
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Stack belongs to a country club that once excluded blacks and Jews from membership.
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The Catholic church continues to exclude women from the priesthood.
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The governing body decided to exclude Declan for two weeks.
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The new law protects most workers, but excludes those on part-time contracts.
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The report concluded that far more boys were excluded each year than girls.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among those children, thus excluded from our final reckonings, was the boy I have called Edward.
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Clauses which seek to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation are regulated by s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967.
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Mr X and the spouse of Mr X may be excluded from all benefit.
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Patients with previous cholecystitis diagnosed by scintigraphic examination of the gall bladder were excluded.
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The Sixth Directive, art 11A.3, states that the taxable amount excludes price discounts.
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These features excluded any intention of the parties to allow claims from the individual inhabitants.
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This effectively excludes vast swathes of the planet's population.