In 1997 Sherlock became an automatic choice on the senior team for the championship.

After enjoying little success in this grade he was an automatic choice for the Cork under-21 football team.

For those young people whose home lives are not conducive to their academic or emotional progress, boarding should become an automatic choice.

If Haas were to finish 10th or better in the standing, he would be the oldest automatic choice.

He would, Hart conceded, be an automatic choice for any other nation.

Again Data felt inadequate; once, he would have been the automatic next choice.

This injury ended his status as an automatic choice and he made just 17 further appearances for the club over the following two seasons.

Yeah didn't think Ba was automatic choice not sure why.

From 1935 to 1939 he was an automatic choice in the front-row for the Queensland state team.

What may look today like automatic choices had at that time a revelatory quality.