Example sentences of "switch off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the presence of a sustained stimulus , here , which is lasting around two milliseconds , the channels are switching off with a time constant of what around half a millisecond . |
| 2 | They had the car lights switched off for a while . |
| 3 | The noise in the kitchen switched off as the small second she stood there half-naked seemed to lengthen into years . |
| 4 | He switched off from the incident , lay back and analysed the day 's events . |
| 5 | McGiven said : ‘ It 's as if subconsciously we switched off after the Wimbledon game and were caught off guard . |
| 6 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply . |
| 7 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply or at the project 's on/off switch . |
| 8 | This makes it easier to switch off at the end . |
| 9 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 10 | All consumers were urged to ‘ switch off at the peak ’ and in periods of severe difficulties moral suasion was backed up by statutory controls , though for small consumers these were practically impossible to enforce , so that voluntary restriction remained the more important . |
| 11 | Please do n't switch off at the mention of maths , if you can use a calculator , you an do this . |
| 12 | This is to help people whose minds wo n't switch off from the events of the day . |
| 13 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 14 | This will be set to illuminate the tank during the early part of the day , and switch off in the evening when I want to see the fish . |
| 15 | They can be so noisy that they are often switched off during an autopsy , increasing the level of air pollution and the risk of acquisition of air-borne infections . |
| 16 | But if we create a psychology in this country where to the men and women who earn the crust upon which we depend , our business community , are switched off to the significance of Europe , there 's only one people who 'll suffer and it is us . |
| 17 | A lower setting gives slight orbital movement for harder materials , while the third setting allows the orbital action to be switched off for a straight reciprocating movement for filing or rasping , or fine cutting in hard materials . |
| 18 | Freezers and immersion heaters will be switched off for no more than 15 minutes at a time during peak-load periods . |
| 19 | The family , he said , were coping well — including Tim 's brother and sister Dominic and Abby who said their goodbyes before the life-support machine was switched off at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Liverpool . |
| 20 | Similarly the " stopping rate " is the maximum stepping rate which can be suddenly switched off without the motor overshooting the target position . |
| 21 | Predators that never scavenge and always insist on eating freshly-killed prey will have their appetite switched off by a limp , static object . |
| 22 | There was some moon which would illuminate the scene suddenly , then be gone as though switched off by the scudding cloud . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | More expensive versions include a timer so that the light source switches off after a preset period . |
| 25 | If the alarm gets no response , the timer goes ahead and switches off in the interest of safety and economy . |