Example sentences of "picks out [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then a man in a suit heads for the cool cabinet and picks out two bottles of champagne . |
| 2 | Any complex referential symbol , or a string of such symbols , theoretically speaking , can apply to any number of individuals , but a proper name picks out one object , and one object only , spanning , as it were , the latter 's entire career . |
| 3 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 4 | She picks out one letter from Damascus , sent via Geneva . |
| 5 | Erm , no it does n't , it picks out various bits from er er from a memo that Gordon dealt with , it does n't set out the total alternate budget process . |
| 6 | He often picks out distinct things which he notices and writes them down to make us ‘ see ’ for ourselves . |
| 7 | THE wail of pipe music is overlaid with the gentle sound of running water , low-key light picks out dappled hues of rust and ochre stretching from horizon to sky as three black-clad figures weave lazy patterns across a dusty landscape . |
| 8 | In particular , I do not claim that the text " " presents " " these units " , in practice he picks out intonational units from the text as if they were given ( albeit he sometimes admits to ambiguities of prosodic structure ) . |
| 9 | With judging under way for the Scottish Marketing Awards , KAY BLAIR picks out some entries worthy of a mention in dispatches |