Sentence examples for cannot be picked from inspiring English sources

These skills cannot be picked up casually at the corners of the day.

Protocol at the Open is that the ball cannot be picked up until the players have shaken hands.

Sometimes, usually late in a set and near the baseline, the mark cannot be picked from a crowded constellation of blots and footprints.

South Carolina peach-farmers, for instance, are both powerful and desperate for migrant labour, because their delicate fruit cannot be picked by machine (and locals dislike the work).

Unlike conventional radio transmitters, which transmit on a particular frequency and which cannot be picked up if the receiver is slightly mistuned, UWB devices broadcast at very low power over an extremely wide band of frequencies.

A couple of my leagues have a rule that unless a minor league prospect is drafted and held on a roster, he cannot be picked up on the waiver wire until he's promoted to the big leagues.

These drugs do not require a prescription but cannot simply be picked up off store shelves.

And such a unit "cannot just be picked up and moved to another hospital" like so much equipment, she said.

Of course, a large sculpture cannot actually be picked up in this way, but it can be designed so as to invite the viewer to think of it as a detached, independent object that has no fixed base and is designed all around.

The cattle fodder that is now ready to be picked cannot be had.

The three-wheel Peel, which is four and a half feet long and weighs 130 pounds, cannot drive backward; it must be picked up and turned around by hand.