Example sentences of "be [verb] to pick [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plant 's leaves are ideally placed to detect day length , for they are designed to pick up the sun 's light for photosynthesis . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're managing to pick up the sound of one of the males , ’ said a marine biologist , Vassili Papastavrou , as he listened intently through a set of headphones . |
| 3 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 4 | Then say that you are going to pick up the cards in any order , which you do keeping the pairs together . |
| 5 | Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object . |
| 6 | And long-suffering wife Bet — actress Julie Goodyear — will be left to pick up the pieces . |
| 7 | The contractors are rightly concerned that they should not be forced to pick up the bill for problems which are not of their making . |
| 8 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 9 | It 's the time young hounds are trained to pick up the scent of a fox . |
| 10 | You may be worrying about such people because you are left to pick up the pieces afterwards . |
| 11 | But unfortunately er it seems to fall on many deaf ears and we the Society as other many charities who deal with animals are left to pick up the pieces . |
| 12 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 13 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 14 | When the students were asked to pick out the photograph that most resembled them , they usually selected the most flattering one . |
| 15 | Here short-pile fabric is used to pick out the main pattern shapes , providing a relief pattern that highlights the design . |
| 16 | In a land where trendy cafés display neon signs reading SMACK BAR and SNATCH BAR , no one 's going to pick up the linguistic and social markers that pin the native Brit down like so many Lilliputian bonds . |
| 17 | Mierle Laderman Ukele proposed an exhibition about maintenance called Care in 1969 : ‘ After the revolution who 's going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning ? ’ |
| 18 | So I 've got to ring Phil and see what time he 's going to pick up the freezer in the morning ? |
| 19 | He 's having to pick up the equivalent of |
| 20 | Consequently the daughter is left to pick up the pieces of the havoc caused by the strain of raised blood-pressure and general anxiety the next day . |
| 21 | Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’ |
| 22 | ICL plc is hoping to pick up the baton and ‘ bring parallel processing into the mainstream ’ sometime in 1994 with the release of a relational database engine for commercial transaction processing that can scale up to 256 superscalar Sparc RISC chips . |
| 23 | I had no doubts that he was going to pick up the package . |
| 24 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |
| 25 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 26 | At 6.15 a taxi was dispatched to pick up the old dress — any old dress — to cover my confusion and my body . |