Sentence examples for selects as though from inspiring English sources

"Up at the Villa," directed by Philip Haas from a screenplay by his wife, Belinda Haas, selects, as though from a pile of empty aluminum cans, a lesser novella by W. Somerset Maugham, but its contribution to culture is minimal.

On a few key trials, the experimenters used sleight-of-hand to present to the participant the face that was not selected as though it had been the face selected.

Carpets have been carefully selected as well.

Ford's watercolor paintings have evolved from a clinical stylized, technically perfect aesthetic that made his select pincered specimens appear as though isolated from their habitats, suspended within faux antique landscapes - and thus removed, the artist rendered his creatures exotic and extinct.

The people who throw beads at Mardi Gras parades are a select bunch, though not as select as in the old days, when you had to be white, Christian, and known to the right people for several generations.

By The New Yorker August 12, 2008 The people who throw beads at Mardi Gras parades are a select bunch, though not as select as in the old days, when you had to be white, Christian, and known to the right people for several generations.

The Yankees had eight players selected as All-Stars, though four — Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and C. C. Sabathia — will not participate, either because of injury or, in Sabathia's case, because he started Sunday.

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But again this would not be favoured by individual selection as the benefit is felt by all individuals in species i (conversely, changes to ω ij could be selected under individual selection even though, as a result of indirect effects through changes in density of other species or through normalising ecological constraints, their net effect is to decrease the density of their own species).

The notion is that a particular arrangement must have been "selected for" — as though the struggles among individuals and groups and ideas were nature's way of making sure that we end up with the best.

This suggests that participants generally approached the select task as though they had to find the best one-to-one correspondences between colors and objects (as participants in the match task had to do), even though participants in the select task could have put multiple object types in the same colored bin if desired.