"select the material" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when referring to the choice of materials to be used in a project, or to make something. For example, "We had to select the material carefully in order to ensure the highest quality product."
When the N.F.L. demanded the Patriots send all material that violated league rules to the commissioner's office, it allowed the team to select the material.
A sculptor may visit a stone quarry in order to select the material for a large project and to have it cut into blocks of the right size and shape.
A: "Unless there is something unusual in the co-op's proprietary lease, the board has an absolute right to select the material to be used in replacing portions of the building or an apartment," said Stuart Saft, a Manhattan lawyer who is also chairman of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums.
The basic processing used involved an adaptive Gauss filter to remove noise and to select the material of interest using region growing and morphological operations.
The present paper tries to apply 'performance index' to select the material best suited to a given application, in the early stage of MEMS design.
Katz had dozens of meetings with Clinton to go over every draft he prepared and the president would then select the material he thought would work best.
This paper attempts to solve the materials selection problem using the recent weighted property index method (WPIM) to select the materials for lighter wagon design.
My job was to select the materials for the coming season of my handbag collection.
3Dprintler's search engine, which launched last year, lets users upload a 3D file for printing, select the materials they want their file to be printed in and get a list of quotes to compare.
Objet Studio is a software package associated with the 3D printer and it is used to organize print jobs, select the materials, and execute printing.
These resources will enable educators to select the materials and techniques that they would like to employ when teaching evolutionary theory.
