Example sentences of "pick up [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would , however , have been interesting to see what relationships might have been revealed had WIRS picked up information on casual workers , since casual working ( albeit involving direct employment ) is also a considerably less regulated form of temporary working and gives an employer considerable disposition over his labour inputs . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Merrill Lynch has effectively sold Waste Management short and will cover its position by picking up stock from any investors stagging the issue ( or ‘ flipping ’ in transatlantic speak ) . |
| 5 | Geophysical work in the core programme has been focused on interpreting existing datasets , particularly so as to pick up evidence of underlying structural controls and increase our three dimensional understanding of the crust . |
| 6 | Within four or five minutes , yet seeming like an eternity , the line begins to peel off the open spool , slowly at first but beginning to pick up momentum as each second passes . |
| 7 | Microphones are built to pick up sound from specific directions . |
| 8 | The ladies are monitored very carefully and scanned and sometimes they pick up cancer in another part of the body which |
| 9 | Its dendrites pick up information from other neurons , and the axon and its terminals pass this on to other cells . |
| 10 | 250 yds later , pick up path on left which climbs up to regain cliff-top . |
| 11 | R. W. Francis , butcher of Church St. , Bishop 's Castle , used to buy whinberries in bulk from local pickers , and Plowden Station at the foot of the Long Mynd was an ideal pick up point for these pickers . |
| 12 | And if the road starts to go downhill , you can even pick up speed without any further pedalling . |
| 13 | The greater affluence of rural patients may explain the better pick up rate in rural areas , but compensating for socioeconomic and ethnic differences between rural and urban areas ( which were small ) would be expected to increase the differences in retinopathy observed . |
| 14 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |