Example sentences of "switch [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , that is one of his reasons for not switching over to a metric standard for his stupid measurements , though in fact he 's just lazy . |
| 2 | Everyone — whether self-employed or working for an employer — has the choice of continuing as they are or of switching instead to a personal pension . |
| 3 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 4 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 5 | On the third visit I switched over to the large search coil and within fifteen minutes was holding numerous buttons , buckles , seals , some copper coins and — best of all — a Queen Anne gold guinea . |
| 6 | It makes good sense to switch over to a lighter routine , just as you adapt to the warm weather by wearing lighter fabrics . |
| 7 | An input pulse at the noninverting input of such a sign and amplitude as to reverse the input signal to the open-loop operational amplifier , will cause the output to switch over to the opposite saturation level . |
| 8 | Data General Corp is now saying its long-promised Motorola Inc 88110-based systems wo n't be announced until well into next year ( UX No 394 ) , but reckons this does n't indicate any plans to switch away from the 88000 CPU line . |
| 9 | The noise in the kitchen switched off as the small second she stood there half-naked seemed to lengthen into years . |
| 10 | In 1943 , however , Baldwin again switched back to the economic motive . |
| 11 | ‘ BR will switch on to a commercial footing and something will have to go . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 13 | It is to be hoped that as this happens , the mass media will switch away from the valuable role of exposing the horrors of the past to the more challenging and difficult one of discussing mental handicap in the context of normal day to day life . ’ |
| 14 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 15 | Once the condition clears up , switch back to a mild shampoo . |
| 16 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 17 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 18 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 19 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 20 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 21 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |
| 22 | None of the following devices should , on any account , be switched on at the same time : the immersion heater in the master bathroom , the swimming-pool filter or the dishwashing machine . |
| 23 | This diversification requires that the genes coding for the ‘ luxury ’ proteins in these cell types are switched on in the appropriate cell . |
| 24 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 25 | A special type of outside light is the security light , which is switched on by a passive infra-red ( PIR ) sensor ( usually , but not always , part of the light fitting ) , whenever someone approaches . |
| 26 | Second , changes in genes can alter the responses of cells locally to the inducing chemical : different genes could be switched on by the same stimulus . |
| 27 | Caroline Amphlett had left and it was switched through to an outside line . |
| 28 | Sterling opened at Dm2.3157 , just above the all-time low it touched on Wednesday , but picked up through the day as dealers switched away from the German currency . |
| 29 | There was some moon which would illuminate the scene suddenly , then be gone as though switched off by the scudding cloud . |
| 30 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |