Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] to pick [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is designed as a desktop printer , having a small footprint and being light enough to pick up and move comfortably . |
| 2 | It is designed as a desktop printer , having a small footprint and being light enough to pick up and move comfortably . |
| 3 | I 've been painting since I was old enough to pick up a brush . |
| 4 | It was an hour after sunset and already dark enough to pick out glow-worms in the bracken sparking brightly with a greenish light . |
| 5 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 6 | The accounting implications of generic strategies , however , go far beyond this , but , before addressing them , it is appropriate here to pick up again the ROI debate left uncompleted in chapter 3 . |
| 7 | For the burning of Rome shots , Ray Cusick , working on his only historical Doctor Who , was lucky enough to pick up , quite by chance , an ex-exhibition architect 's model of a colonnaded city which was then cremated on cue , with added flame effects overlaid on top of the recording to make the conflagration look even more spectacular . |
| 8 | The prince , at a loss with the complexities of women , was quick enough to pick up an offered lead , and not infrequently bettered the prompting , as he did now . |
| 9 | Martin Pipe 's charge should be good enough to pick up this decent prize . |
| 10 | The resolution of these cameras is good enough to pick out number plates or the faces of individual demonstrators . |
| 11 | Pure business accountancy however is rarely selective enough to pick up changes in cleaning expenditure as many items are often included with more general expenditure and are thus concealed . |
| 12 | More might have tuned in to hear him but their radio sets were not powerful enough to pick up the German stations broadcasting in English . |
| 13 | She took a deep breath , made the effort to be mature enough to pick up the olive branch . |
| 14 | And I do n't want to think he was mean enough to pick up stolen candles from a crooked verger . ’ |
| 15 | He guessed that the mikes were near enough to pick up his discussion with Stevie and relay it to several million viewers . |
| 16 | The diatom analysis was sensitive enough to pick up land use changes : lake records detected pollen change , showing variation in vegetation , but it was the coincidence of the onset of acidification with the industrial revolution , its rapid acceleration after the Second World War when the consumption of fossil fuels leapt up , and the appearance of industrial metals , which made the conclusive link . |
| 17 | One look at the Moon or even back at Earth could spell disaster for the infrared detectors which have to be sensitive enough to pick up tiny amounts of radiation from distant stars and galaxies . |
| 18 | In addition , the group developed robotic equipment , using three-dimensional video monitors , that is sensitive enough to pick up single gold coins and to lift heavy beams . |
| 19 | The forceplate is sensitive enough to pick up forces from the heartbeat of someone standing on it , and robust enough to measure up to five tons of horse trotting past . |
| 20 | Natural selection could easily have enhanced this faculty by gradual degrees until it was sensitive enough to pick up very slight contact vibrations . |
| 21 | At this point it would automatically have been sensitive enough to pick up airborne vibrations of sufficient loudness and/or sufficient nearness of origin . |