Example sentences of "switching the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'll mend , ’ said his Mum , switching the kettle on . |
| 2 | Election 1992 : Tory ‘ super-party ’ born out of last-minute vote switching The Conservative victory was a surprise . |
| 3 | Five points instead of four for a try and the scrapping of a much-abused offside law had been regarded as inevitable , but experimental changes to rucks and mauls , switching the advantage to the defending side , received only a cautious welcome among leading coaches yesterday . |
| 4 | On the infamous ‘ night of the long keys ’ National Front deputés , finding the chamber empty as usual , rushed around all the empty desks switching the keys left in the voting machines , registering a massive vote in their favour ( which was subsequently declared null and void ) . |
| 5 | If the lamp is connected to a 50 Hz AC supply then the sine wave form of the current is , in effect , continuously switching the lamp on and off . |
| 6 | Not to emit and receive these sounds constantly might be our equivalent of the sun 's disappearance at night , of someone switching the light off , or of partially shutting one 's eyes , though these creatures are also supremely aware of externally generated sounds . |
| 7 | One further adopted measure thus was to offset the carriageway or create a chicane by using planting on one side only and switching the right-angle parking from one side to the other ( Figure 6.50 ) . |
| 8 | When the switch is open the pins are held at +5V via R1 — allowing the SRAM to be removed , whereas when it is closed the pins are switched direct to ground — ( ) V ) switching the SRAM into circuit . |
| 9 | The circuit can be reset by momentarily switching the unit off . |
| 10 | I have to make decisions every second about when I leave the rhythm guitar part to play the melody and how I balance between switching the pickup selection , reach over , mute the strings and play . |
| 11 | Switching the GR-1 on , the first thing you see is the LED telling you that it is indeed a Roland Guitar Synth . |
| 12 | Switching the cabinet voicing off , you realise just how much it is working to condition the sound ready for tape ; because without it , you are straight back to the two gnats in a bottle sound , beloved of direct outputs on many amps . |
| 13 | To keep this depth and spread without using chorus I just left the chorus switched on and backed off the rate and depth controls to 0 ; switching the chorus off again put the sound back in the middle of the speakers and sounded quite boring by comparison . |
| 14 | They also stopped switching the jumpers around , allowing Bayfield , in particular , a bit of time to settle . |
| 15 | And 14 minutes later , the cool Marwood foxed Wigan by switching the ball to the blindside where winger Paul Penrice evaded Martin Offiah to score in the corner . |
| 16 | These are interchangeable heel implants for protection in training or extra lift in competition — simply by switching the implant . |
| 17 | Quickly switching the conversation , he addressed the next remark to Harry , saying , ‘ I wonder how the Duke is feeling today ; I wonder if he still thinks the exchange was worth it . ’ |
| 18 | The Brigadier was bouncing the jeep once again along the road out of Pontino , sending up sprays of wet grit and grumbling continually under his breath , this time because he had to keep switching the wipers on and off . |
| 19 | Junior Tennis Centres ( JTC ) , the company formed in 1988 by Keith Sohl and Adrian Stonebridge , with the sole purpose of switching the emphasis on court time from seniors to juniors , has ambitious plan to expand its operations countrywide . |
| 20 | Gagne ( 1970 ) attempted to produce a theory which was germane to educational problems by switching the emphasis from categories to conditions of learning . |
| 21 | It 's much better than switching the light on in the middle of development and hoping for the ‘ effect ’ . |
| 22 | It was not simply a matter of switching the definitions of crime from what the working class do to what the capitalist class do ( that would merely be a transitional strategy ) ; in the socialist society both upper- and lower-class crime would disappear since there would be ‘ a set of social arrangements in which there would be no politically , economically and socially-induced need to criminalise deviance ’ ( Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , p. 270 ) . |
| 23 | This interruption , or interrupt , takes the form of automatically switching the control unit from its current sequence of instructions to a separate sequence of instructions , whose task is to deal with the completion of the transput operation ( and perhaps to initiate a further such operation ) . |
| 24 | Taking the empty teacup , Gran went out , switching the light off and closing the door . |
| 25 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 26 | The other thing to remember is that you can damage your discs by inserting them before switching the computer on , or for that matter by leaving them in while you switch it off . |
| 27 | This allows users to resume from the point they left by electronically ‘ marking ’ it before switching the unit off . |
| 28 | But , one of things that we are discovering is that when people complain about drafts er , we 've been switching the air conditioning up and down to balance it up to suit the individuals needs . |
| 29 | ‘ I was about to go for a turn around the village , ’ said Hope , switching the subject , as he thought , adroitly . |
| 30 | It 's much better than switching the light on in the middle of development and hoping for the ‘ effect ’ . |