Sentence examples for could not be picked from inspiring English sources

Good jazz and bebop, from American broadcasts, could not be picked up in much of the island.

His form was so dire that he could not be picked for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Georgia's Cherokee County was one of several in which education officials promised to keep schools open overnight for students who could not be picked up.

The museum postponed the opening of its current show, "Inner Child," for several days because the works could not be picked up from artists living in lower Manhattan.

Mr. Zoellick's most immediate challenge is to win authority from Congress to negotiate trade deals that could not be picked apart through amendments.

The notches in their arrows were too narrow to fit the wider bowstrings of the Western people they fought, so that the arrows could not be picked up and shot back at them.

"I mean, I couldn't be picked after a better guy.

When putting passwords into computers, he placed a big red hood over his head and laptop, so the passwords couldn't be picked up by hidden cameras.

More notable for the velocity than for the depth of his thought, Mr. Stoppard isn't delivering any intellectual aperçus here that couldn't be picked up in a good university seminar about 19th-century Russian novelists.

I've listened to New Order more than any other band in my life (including the Fall; I even listen to tapes of soundchecks), so some of these tracks picked themselves, even though several of my favourites (notably Turn the Heater On and Too Late from the sublime 1982 John Peel session) aren't on Spotify so couldn't be picked at all.

"He was very frustrated over the first couple of games that he couldn't be picked despite training hard.