Example sentences of "picking up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also facing an inquiry over the taxpayer picking up part of his £24,000 bill to evict a self-styled sex therapist from his home and was embarrassed by revelations about his Access card . |
| 2 | Core programme activities have been focused on interpreting the existing datasets , with an emphasis on picking up evidence of underlying structural controls and increasing our three-dimensional understanding of the crust . |
| 3 | Norway 's most eloquent campaigner against the Community is Anne Enger Lahnstein , leader of the Centre Party , which , like the anti-EC Socialist Left Party , is picking up support at the expense of Labour , which forms the minority government . |
| 4 | More recently , they have been supplemented by the galium arsenide laser instrument with opto-electrical linkage for picking up conversation at a distance from the vibrations in window panes . |
| 5 | Commenting on Gladstone 's support for the scheme , the News of the World said : " picking up type is not the same thing as picking up needles and stitches : the mental and physical labour demanded in the compositors " room is infinitely greater than anything that has yet been required of women " . |
| 6 | Or it may abrade ; picking up silt , sand , or even rocks and grinding them against the rock beneath . |
| 7 | Geac Computer Corp , Aprkham , Ontario has made another acquisition , picking up Computer Library Services International ( Australia ) Pty Ltd of Melbourne for some $800,000 . |
| 8 | Even picking up litter on a regular basis is a positive , life-affirming act . |
| 9 | In 1988 , while politicians made a show of picking up litter in London parks to encourage public concern , other European countries were several steps ahead in implementing hard-hitting environmental policies . |
| 10 | Once it was finished we went outside and swept round the entire barrack block in an extended line , picking up litter from the damp grass . |
| 11 | I 've even considered picking up litter in different parts of London — or even different parts of the country — to include in the archive , as historical specimens of the varied treatment meted out to ephemera : the flyers with the coupons torn out , worth 15 pence off the next purchase in high-street supermarkets ; the junk-food cartons , the ketchup sachets and tiny envelopes of pepper and salt outside the fast-food places , and , by contrast , the pristine copies of Vogue , the printed dress boxes , emblazoned with trademarks and royal coats of arms , tossed into the dustbins of Kensington . |
| 12 | If the economy is picking up steam , the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening . |
| 13 | In view of the fact that eye testing is important in picking up illness in the elderly and that we are in the business of preventive medicine rather than treating illnesses when they occur , will my hon. Friend keep an open mind ? |
| 14 | The 5000 desktop model has a memory checking function for picking up memory errors , while the 5900 server can make use of a large-capacity disk array with up to eight disk drives . |
| 15 | Wet vacuum pick-ups : are vacuum cleaners capable of picking up water . |
| 16 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 17 | The focus of this is about fourteen inches from the centre and if you put a microphone here when this this thing is outside it 's ideal for picking up bird song . |
| 18 | Not having worked on a Dalek story since the first one , Cusick was concerned that the creatures were apparently mobile outside their metal cities without any explanation as to how they were picking up power . |
| 19 | On rejoining main road proceed along it for 250 yds before picking up track on right . |
| 20 | Picking up refuse for recycling can be profitable , if towns are willing to pay for it . |
| 21 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Colorado-based master distributor Access Graphics Inc is picking up Qume Corp 's $700 QX15 ASCII/ANSI terminal which supports Sun graphical windows . |
| 22 | An old bucket kept just outside the stable is handy for picking up manure every time you go in with your horse and helps to save money on bedding . |
| 23 | We even spend some of our Pack Meeting time picking up paper people haff left about . |
| 24 | Of course , it 's good to know the ground rules about wearing the right clothes and not jumping on the sett ( certainly , from the badger 's point of view ) , but the consequence of picking up badger-lore slowly — getting closer to the smells , scratches and signs — is that you not only find it easier to watch badgers but also more enjoyable . |
| 25 | He attacked her and threw her to the ground before turned his attention to the pub , picking up pool balls and throwing them at bottles of spirits behind the bar . |
| 26 | Jannie gazed into the food cupboard , picking up cereal packets and shaking them to see if they needed replacing . |
| 27 | She trailed around the room picking up beer bottles , looking oddly like a bee with broken wings . |
| 28 | And it was picking up printer drivers from the A drive . |
| 29 | It had been this problem which had led to the complex arrangements for picking up Ruggiero on his release . |
| 30 | Mr Bond said : ‘ There are 33 independent milkmen who are all helping out by picking up food around the town . |