Sentence examples for are being picked for from inspiring English sources

Colleagues and new hires are being picked for plum positions while you sit by.

And, this time, I'm not talking about the one in which all the brilliant New York girls are being picked for starring roles.

One good indicator is being picked for end-of-season or all-star teams.

Meanwhile, anonymous "senior Labour figures" complained that Miliband was soft on welfare claimants and that union-backed candidates were being picked for next year's European elections.

"Jamie Mackie is another one: his grandfather is over the moon that he's being picked for Scotland and these guys want to run their heart out and do their best for Scotland and they made their families immensely proud.

Your transition begins during the selection process when you're being picked for the job, not when you formally enter the organization.

"So at the end of the day you're being picked for your country in your national stadium and to represent your country, so I think it's fully justifiable to give caps.

After making the breakthrough at international level with England this winter, playing in nine limited-over matches and making the Twenty20 squad in Bangladesh, his next target is being picked for the one-day international against Scotland in Aberdeen on 9 May.

At that point and I think it's still true to some extent the kind of subjects I'd been choosing were not subjects that were being picked for documentary films.

Maybe it wasn't at work but it was being picked for a team, the lead role in the play or pretty much any role that requires being picked over someone else.

I'll sidestep Lou Reed's emotional cruelty on The Kids as it's been picked for a previous list, and instead give you Stan Lee Cole's award-winning Separated.