Example sentences of "be pick [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain usually send six or seven for the relay team but for Los Angeles the selectors decided to rely on the sprinters that had been picked for the individual events . |
| 2 | Merseyside duo Jamie Cassidy ( Liverpool ) and David Thompson ( Wirral ) have been picked for the first England boys under 15s national trial at the Lilleshall Sports Centre next weekend . |
| 3 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 4 | At the moment it is possible for some people to complain that because the policy is set and also administered centrally , teams for a major championship marathon are picked in the same way as sprint squads . |
| 5 | The grapes are picked from the local vineyard and brought to the house where they are crushed . |
| 6 | Lawrence was on his first senior overseas tour and was thrilled to be picked for the final test . |
| 7 | His time of 46.55secs was a second slower than David Grindley ran in Rome on Wednesday and Grindley is now favourite to be picked for the European Cup later this month . |
| 8 | From each transformant , small pieces of mycelium were picked at the thallus periphery and grown on minimal medium with or without uridine . |
| 9 | Russell Mulford was quizmaster , and teams were picked on the same principle as before . |
| 10 | However , there is wide scope for creating designs with a botanical feel , and in the picture shown on the facing page , I decided to use the leaves and buds that were picked from the same plant as the main flowers , thus creating a design that was botanically correct . |
| 11 | The move south was now imperative in an attempt to contact Allied ships , and platoon areas for future operations were picked by the dubious but only available criteria : those towns in bold type on Bernard Callinan 's map were chosen as platoon centres . |
| 12 | The Redlands Hotel in Hough Green , Chester , was picked as the best small hotel or guest house in the North West and Midlands . |
| 13 | I said that unless I was picked for the final leg I would n't run . |