Example sentences of "and pick [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | If each overlay were drawn on transparent paper then a light table could be used to allow the viewer to look simultaneously at the spatial distribution of each attribute and to pick out by eye the areas of interest . |
| 2 | The Dental News newsletter , issued by the Princeton Dental Resource Centre , based in New Jersey and picked up by dental patients in waiting rooms all over America suggested that an ingredient of cocoa , tannin , had been shown to inhibit the formation of plaque on the teeth , therefore helping stop cavities . |
| 3 | It makes no sense to talk of unqualified ‘ parents rights ’ , and parental participation in investigations and case conferences — one of the concerns voiced in the Rochdale report and picked up by the press . |
| 4 | Fitting in with her hectic social agenda I was most conveniently dropped off and picked up by car . |
| 5 | Radar is a technique whereby an object is investigated by beaming at it a short pulse of radio waves some of which are scattered by the object and picked up by a detector . |
| 6 | The impact of de Gaulle 's words , which were transmitted to Algeria via Radio Monte Carlo and picked up by soldiers on their transistor radios , was again critical . |
| 7 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 8 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |