Example sentences of "[noun sg] picks up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 2 | The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday . |
| 3 | The new act picks up the Warnock comments that really the majority of children can probably be erm accommodated in ordinary schools , but there will always be a need for special schools , and in fact they do mention some proportions . |
| 4 | GRIPPING SCENE : Proud pop picks up the tot he once refused to carry |
| 5 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 6 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 7 | The first player in each team picks up the feather by inhaling through the straw . |
| 8 | The embroidery-edged bed linen picks up the delicate decoration as does the appliqué bedcover , while the plain brown walls add warmth and lend a strong contrast . |
| 9 | If the person picks up the keys , then he or she can become the next sleeping beauty . |
| 10 | The back person picks up the ball and runs to the front . |
| 11 | Rainbow picks up the cue : |
| 12 | The Quartet picks up the novel where Thru leaves it , dissected and decentred in vitro , and returns it to the social and historical context out of which it arose . |
| 13 | The choice theory picks up the libertarian strand , which insists that all state power must be legitimated by consent , whereas the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory taps the slender source of Millian liberalism to defend a broadening of the scope of contractual obligations . |
| 14 | The board picks up the signal , and translates it into digital data , which is then stored as a data file on the computer 's hard disk . |
| 15 | The phototransistor picks up the light emitted by the l.e.d. in the transmitter section and converts it into an analogue electrical signal . |
| 16 | Classic examples of awkward questions are the salesman 's special dread , as the interviewer picks up the telephone directory and says , ‘ Sell me this ’ , and the totally unpredictable , ‘ What star sign are you ? ’ |
| 17 | Hong Kong Special Report : After the traumas , the colony picks up the pieces |
| 18 | When one of the firm 's 600 taxis passes within 600 metres , its receiver picks up the code , stores it in memory , and simultaneously relays it back to base . |
| 19 | This book picks up the story from there , although it is written by a different author . |
| 20 | Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct . |
| 21 | erm we decided from the start that erm the mums who have their kids in the creche should make some contribution towards the costs ; we 're providing them with a benefit erm but the company picks up the major part of the bill erm but in terms of the output from the additional sewing machinists that we 've got , it 's very , very cost-effective , yes . |
| 22 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 23 | For example , the hospital treatments that GPs can purchase were limited to standard relatively inexpensive procedures which the GP could easily diagnose and cost ; the costs a practice would bear for any one patient were limited to a maximum of £5,000 ( after this the DHA picks up the bill ) , and finally entry to the scheme was limited to large , well-managed practices . |
| 24 | The PLAYER picks up the coin . |
| 25 | A curved position-sensitive detector picks up the X-rays diffracted by the sample while its transmission spectrum is recorded by a photodiode array . |