Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to pick up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public subsidy may therefore be desirable , but the public commitment to pick up the bills requires public monitoring to ensure that the monopolist continues to minimize costs and produce efficiently . |
| 2 | Nor , more modestly , does it provide any reason why the Treasury , responsible for the ultimate public obligation to pick up the bill for public bodies which can not be allowed to default , should exercise a prudential interest in its performance . |
| 3 | Guppy and Marsh , it was alleged , even went back to New York by Concorde on a quick trip to pick up the ‘ stolen ’ jewels , to sell them . |
| 4 | The study walls are a rich red to pick up the burgundy of the tapestry curtains . |
| 5 | In other words , limited liability is an incentive for management to play for high stakes and allow the general public to pick up the bill . |
| 6 | But the red bitch chose that same day to pick up the remaining puppy in her teeth and carry it by the scruff of the neck up the ladder and into the house . |
| 7 | The assumption was that the police had been given enough information to pick up the terrorists quickly . |
| 8 | A final chance to pick up the kind of luxuries not often seen on sale nowadays . |
| 9 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 10 | Yanto realised he might well have to make a special journey to pick up the old man if Julie happened to be out . |