Example sentences of "pick up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly , cryostat sections were picked up on poly-L-lysone-coated slides and dried at 37°C for 2 h . |
| 2 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 3 | One age 's misfortune is another 's good luck and a result of this flight from urban squalor and an exceptionally turbulent working class was that , in the early 20th century , when the new Bristol University was looking to expand , there was a whole chain of classical villas with their attendant small parks all waiting to be picked up at knock-down prices . |
| 4 | Ten people were picked up after four hours in the water , and the eleventh after five hours . |
| 5 | The boy François , alias Abdel Saran , and a member of the FLM since the age of sixteen , was picked up within twenty-four hours . |
| 6 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recent weeks with about seven million . |
| 7 | The productivity theme was picked up in main sessions on Coatings ( Australia , Europe and North America ) , Fibres and Films and Chemicals . |
| 8 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 9 | C ) Outgoing mail to be picked up from all Divisions and GWM/MAR/CMG out–trays before 10.00am and at 11.00 am , 1.00 pm , 3.45 pm ( 2.45 pm — Friday ) . |
| 10 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 11 | In a similar way , he developed a totally new technique for studying branching fibres by using pairs of fluorescent dyes , with the potential for being picked up by separate branches . |
| 12 | We prefer that prostitutes should stand in the streets to be picked up by passing cars ( not the roomiest place for sex ) , in constant danger of being beaten up and even murdered , and that valuable police and court time be wasted in arresting , convicting and imposing heavy fines on girls who , unable to pay , return to soliciting even harder , that pimps should come into being to batten off the girls , and that women who are not prostitutes should be harassed by cruising motorists who will not take no for an answer . |
| 13 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 14 | But the Hodgsons seem to have over-extended themselves and lost their monopoly on exporting beer to India , which was subsequently picked up by such upstarts as Bass . |
| 15 | The report warns service providers against offering global ‘ one-stop shopping ’ services , as they may then find that the more attractive routes or services are picked up by other types of provider with cheaper offerings . |
| 16 | ‘ But with half the world 's sports Press in town , the idea that we 're a twosome could be picked up by other reporters and become accepted knowledge , ’ Ashley had protested . |
| 17 | they were being picked up by two Commandos and dumped on the grass verge . |
| 18 | In the case of Olugboja ( 1981 ) two girls were picked up by two men and taken to a remote house . |
| 19 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | In the sixteenth century it was found more convenient and safer for these goods to be transported overland to the ports of northern Italy , where they were picked up by Ragusan merchants . |
| 21 | Taylor insists the Wembley taunting , since picked up by copy-cat morons around the Premier League , will not influence him . |
| 22 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 23 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 24 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 25 | And the first is to pick up on concealed households and just to add to the points that have already been made that erm neither the House Builders Federation nor ourselves are assuming that all be housed , but the projected number is five thousand whereas we 're housing three thousand odd of them . |
| 26 | More surprises will come , because Wall Street has proved slow to pick up on such clues . |
| 27 | But , despite this ability to pick up on new innovations , and add refinements of their own , neither Paul nor any of the other pioneers found the backup necessary to generate significant leaps forward in the manufacture of equipment or the films themselves . |
| 28 | He saw the purpose of it to be for advisers to gain a general view of the school — not to pick up on bad points . |
| 29 | A new head teacher has made much difference in the last two years and the school is beginning to pick up in many ways . |
| 30 | Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round . |