Example sentences of "[modal v] pick [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors should pick a fund with a good track record over ten years or more and to receive income gross look for one managed from an overseas centre such as Dublin or Luxembourg . |
| 2 | So anyone who pays the bill in full each month and never spreads the payments should pick the Co-op Card or National & Provincial 's card , although the latter offers only a one-year ‘ no fee ’ guarantee . |
| 3 | Unless you want to hire coaches and bus people in ( not unknown ) you must pick a place people will be able to get to fairly easily . |
| 4 | The solvents listed above , you might care to know , make no impress on mouche excrement , so when confronted by this problem in your own home life use sputum or ammonia , and if that fails you must pick the droppings off with a scalpel . |
| 5 | ‘ And when you see Bellybutton , tell him that I know where his brother is , and I 'll pick the bastard up whenever I choose and then feed him head first into a cane-shredder . ’ |
| 6 | We 'll pick the winners on 31 January . |
| 7 | I 'll pick the file up tomorrow afternoon . |
| 8 | telly on it 'll pick the telly up . |
| 9 | whoever might pick the sheet up . |
| 10 | Next , I 'd pick the Exeter High Income , a very high income fund … because it has got good recovery prospects . |
| 11 | If the song is a modern piece , the front sheet may well be a photograph or picture , in which case one could pick a passage from the music itself and decorate that to highlight particular words or phrases . |
| 12 | Cos equally a rapist could pick the lock and come in and , and do you know what I mean ? |
| 13 | The image is in Gandalf 's mind when he says to Théoden , ‘ There are children in your land who , out of the twisted threads of story , could pick the answer to your question . ’ |
| 14 | And a we used to get the skin , I used to pick the skin up . |
| 15 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 16 | And then he used to pick the undress goods up to go to G and W 's , still down Road . |
| 17 | In fact , I think he would pick a player of lesser ability if he knew he would be prepared to give 100 per cent all the time . |
| 18 | lee would pick the girls for the evening and she would approve his choice . |
| 19 | Of all the pubs Dirkin could choose , he would pick the Windsor . |
| 20 | After further consultation with athletes it was decided that a selection panel would pick the team for Antwerp , using the English , Scottish and Welsh championship races as a guide to form . |
| 21 | Pacino may pick a consolation Supporting Oscar for his hunchback in Dick Tracy , but this year could see instead ‘ length of service ’ Oscars for Richard Harris ( first nominated in 1963 for This Sporting Life ) and Joanne Woodward ( first nominated in 1957 for The Three Faces of Eve ) . |
| 22 | It is now that a man may pick the flowers and fruit of his lifetime , and complete his gardens of philosophy . |
| 23 | Now in order to look at this relationship between labour and capital and output total product simultaneously we need to draw a 3 D diagram , alright , but because my diagrams are bad enough in 2 D what we are going to do is we are going to constrain one of these factors , right , so what we will do is we will pick a level of ou a level of capital input , right , and we will see what happens to total product as we vary labour . |
| 24 | Some will pick a pocket |
| 25 | If someone does come looking for trouble , he or she will pick a victim who does not look capable of causing any real problem . |
| 26 | UI members have determined the requirements and will pick the reference technology . |
| 27 | Unix International members have determined the requirements and will pick the reference technology . |
| 28 | Dennis Ramsdale , caretaker coach since Jim Crellin 's resignation , will pick the team for the last time for tonight 's home game against St Helens . |
| 29 | Macari WILL be at Ibrox on Saturday but Connor will pick the team . |
| 30 | Er well Madam Deputy Speaker I think erm that the last half an hour shown that er the quality of debate in this house er remains extremely high and that even when you have an issue which on the face of it looks to be as dry as dust er that er there are some honourable members who will pick an argument er when perhaps er on the face of it there ought not to be much of an argument er I ca n't erm I ca n't say that erm I agreed with much of what erm the honourable member for Great Grimsby said er he seemed to imply er quite early on his er speech that most of the City of London er was collapsing in a sea of sleaze and er er other other goings on which are extremely er to be regretted but erm I think we ought to er remind him er that erm , you know , all all of these four orders er followed the Bingham inquiry into er what happened at B C C I which was not a British bank , was an international bank based erm overseas and I think I 'm right in saying this and I 'm sure my honourable friend the minister will confirm when he winds up er this is the first er such difficulty er that we 've experienced for a great length of time . |