Example sentences of "picks out [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly the camera picks out a rounded tongue of hot lava being extruded from the flow front ; there is a brief flash of red , almost immediately extinguished , and a new pillow has been created .
2 Here the modifier this picks out a particular Thursday in relation to the speaker 's location in the week : this Thursday means the Thursday of the week in which the speaker is speaking .
3 Each picks out a different type of factor and claims that it is the key to a causal understanding of the Industrial Revolution ; and in doing so , each relies on an undefended account of the assumptions that need to be embodied in satisfactory explanations .
4 A subjective camera , filming through goggles , picks out the inane faces and soundless mouths of his elders as he descends to the bottom of the pool where he stands silently and alone , away from the pestering people above .
5 The ‘ country of the Iguanodon restored ’ is very different from Victorian Sussex ; the strange light which picks out the struggling animals also reveals how many tons of animal life the artist believed that the primeval world could support on quite a small area-as later dinosaur pictures always tend to do .
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