Example sentences of "pick out [art] " in BNC.

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1 Yet we could pick out every feature , as you know every pore on the face of a woman you love .
2 ‘ The work-force can pick out a fraud very easily or someone who 's just glossing things over .
3 I can pick out a face in a crowd or a name on a list
4 A very prosaic theory proposes that the electrical activity of the brain as we sleep produces the mental equivalent of white noise and that , just as we can make ourselves hear music in white noise , our unconscious can pick out a coherent story from the baffling array of visual images presented to it .
5 Perhaps she could actually pick out a suitable house and rob it ?
6 Lee would pick out a suitably drunk customer , extol the virtues of his " sister " and then lure the man into a nearby darkened alley where , more often than not , the customer was attacked and robbed of everything he had on him , sometimes even his clothing .
7 We can not suppose that one action is good and another not good unless we can pick out a further relevant difference between them .
8 Her ears are so finely tuned to this that she can pick out a prospective mate 's voice from a cacophony of croaks .
9 You can pick out a furrow after the harrow has gone over it .
10 This time of night , the reservations are pretty well settled ; all I have to do is pick out a room in one of the quieter areas and then take them up on a passkey .
11 He can pick out a charlatan at a hundred yards . ’
12 We can pick out a vehicle from a line of vehicles and check the speed on that which at the moment we can not do .
13 And he said what they 're tr er what they want to do is erm pick out a word pick out a word and then in a conversation they would fi find out how many meanings to that one word .
14 And he said what they 're tr er what they want to do is erm pick out a word pick out a word and then in a conversation they would fi find out how many meanings to that one word .
15 Are there any simple questions that can pick out an alcoholic ?
16 Give me a line-up of blokes I 've never met before , and I 'll pick out the big hitter for you . ’
17 The doubles which are now being offered widely are indispensable and I would pick out the deep red ‘ Captain Blood ’ , the white edged purple ‘ Marie Crousse ’ and ‘ Our Pat ’ in bluish-violet as the best growers .
18 Although it was murky , she felt she could almost pick out the silhouettes of other buildings up there , as if they were constructed on the inside of the dome itself .
19 Most were confident that his military and political genius would once again pick out the correct moment for the decisive blow against Britain , and had no inkling in autumn 1940 that ‘ Operation Sealion ’ had been postponed indefinitely .
20 To the player it is all too real and even from the prime position in the middle of the fairway he can barely pick out the top of the flag amid the brightly-coloured hues of the spectators .
21 When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot .
22 From a general mass of information I can usually pick out the precise thing I 'm looking for
23 It has telescopes and optical instruments that can pick out the salient features of , say , any passing satellite , even those in geosynchronous orbit — and that 's 22,000 miles up .
24 ‘ I would line the men up outside , then I would pick out the youngest and strongest for sweeping and cleaning .
25 Within another two miles we can pick out the inverted ‘ L ’ pattern of one end of a long forest where it touches a B road , adjacent to which point two minor roads feed in at T-junctions ( K , picture taken from south of track — with apologies for the slightly confusing cloud shadow . )
26 He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes .
27 Erm because the report is er quite a long report mainly the er part of the report erm I will pick out the most important comments and if I could take the first part of the report first erm this concerns a new staffing structure between er , newly emerged welfare rights and advice service .
28 Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class .
29 The connecting network thus handles both levels of data transfer through the initial step of passing management-type requests which can pick out the necessary engineering data for the problem solution .
30 I think the real nitty gritty of this question is , given a T tumour can you pick out the good from the bad using this technique ?
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