Example sentences of "pick out [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can also pick out small pieces of grass or leaf . |
| 2 | An instructive counterfactual must , therefore , pick out two causally connected events or states of affairs which are relatively independent of other factors . |
| 3 | Or if you were doing water they could pick out two of the four things that you wanted about water . |
| 4 | However , these too have drawbacks , notably the lack of children in the electoral register , and the difficulty of tracing migrants who have migrated to either new doctors ( Devis , 1984 ) or to new electoral districts , but nonetheless they can still pick out new trends , like the repopulation of rural areas , long before the decennial census can ( Kennett and Spence , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | You could pick out individual families : that old Grandma who had fallen asleep in her deckchair , legs apart , showing a formidable pair of bloomers ; the fat baby next to her pushing candy-floss into its chubby face with both hands , trying to find its mouth ; the Dad lying on his back like a stranded whale , great white beer belly rising majestically into the air . |
| 6 | Of these 500 , we 'll pick out six readers to act as the stars of the project . |
| 7 | For instance , if you have chosen colours that are suitable for a pink picture , you should pick out all the flowers that you have in shades of pink , and perhaps white as a contrast , plus some green or grey leaves , or a combination of the two , and some small feathery pieces to soften the outline . |
| 8 | But I mean a lot of us suggested that rather than pick out all these very difficult to understand erm time tables it would be far better to have a personage at bus stations and things . |
| 9 | So nobody 's singled out — I do n't pick out one team . |
| 10 | It was not possible to give a home to all , so how could he pick out one or two ? |
| 11 | The children also extended the new words to pick out further exemplars from the novel category , and , when given a choice ( with the introduction of a second novel word with further novel objects ) , the two-year-olds assumed that the second novel label must pick out as-yet-unnamed novel objects ( Golinkoff et al 1985 ) . |
| 12 | He will pick out these celebrated nightspots to the cooing nurse on his arm , and meticulously expatiate , say , on their relative distances to the earth- and to each other . |
| 13 | Just by looking maybe they could pick out those who had , or had n't . |
| 14 | A and numbers in our , a s in a stage group too small to say definitely that we can pick out those T two tumours badly or well on the vascular count . |
| 15 | From the random individual variation existing within any population , the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ would pick out those with useful characters and thus intensify the adaptive feature in each generation . |
| 16 | So if I get the typists to actually pick out those for individuals on this check list , we 'd have it would n't we ? |
| 17 | Let me pick out three aspects that may help to guide us . |
| 18 | With the band too , being in mufti , one can pick out some of the five ladies who have recently joined the band . |
| 19 | Given the excellence of the cause which benefits from the sales of ‘ Ruby Trax ’ and the generosity of the artists etc , etc , it would be churlish of me to rubbish individual tracks — although there are one or two here which have tempted me sorely — so I will pick out some highlights for you . |
| 20 | One of the Romans city , so you can pick out some Roman traces , one of the erm the er er Viking city , one of what happened in the Norman period the eleventh century , time of William the Conqueror and the two castles and the big er erm abbeys he put up , and finally the medieval city . |
| 21 | You can pick out some music and crack open a decent bottle . |
| 22 | thank you , so erm she 's going to erm she 'll just pick out some of these then , erm watch it , the ones that she does n't , the plants that she does n't need she 'll give to Dave , his erm school , his spring fair whatever you call it |
| 23 | As with any guidebook , especially one which covers an area as large as this , you can pick out numerous faults . |
| 24 | Anne could pick out random snatches of disco , Derek Douane , reggae , acid house , rhythm and blues , funk , Kylie Minogue and '60s oldies . |