Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] pick [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the local authorities that must pick up the bill for those problems . |
| 2 | We designed a new machine that could pick up the in-can system and position it within the can , without damage . |
| 3 | Lawton was struggling to get out of his pack the receiver that would pick up the radio signals from the miniature transceiver Forster said was attached to his slayer . |
| 4 | The antenna that will pick up the signals is a 12-metre dish built in the US and specially erected at the Rutherford and Appleton Laboratory at Chilton . |
| 5 | And it has a sonar location and detection system that can pick up a sunken object at the bottom of the ocean just as easily as it can pinpoint a lurking submarine . |
| 6 | Are there any simple questions that can pick out an alcoholic ? |
| 7 | It has telescopes and optical instruments that can pick out the salient features of , say , any passing satellite , even those in geosynchronous orbit — and that 's 22,000 miles up . |