Example sentences of "switch off [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at least everyone will be able to see just how much water they are using , even to the extent of checking the meter just before turning on the sprinkler , and then switching off when the dial shows enough water has been sprayed to cover the lawn or vegetable patch . |
| 2 | If they switch off and the closed-circuit figures drop , the present heady economics of it all begin to crumble . |
| 3 | Residents and shoppers in Girvan were recently confronted with a very smelly problem , as hundreds of fish were left to rot in freezers that had been switched off when a shop closed down and the previous owners omitted to tell the managing agent . |
| 4 | ‘ I think that both the country people and the tourists share to some extent the illusion that the locals dematerialise when the visitors have gone , that all the countryside is a vast TV set to be switched off when no one is watching , ’ said Beuno . |
| 5 | It was occasionally found in practice that the timer would re-trigger when the light tubes were switched off when the timer timed-out , presumably caused by a switch-off ‘ spike ’ on the supply . |
| 6 | It was switched off when the subject changed to pain control , which seemed to irritate most of the women present . |
| 7 | The supply is then switched off until the button is pressed again . |
| 8 | After cabinet cleaning is complete the frier should be switched off and the well emptied . |
| 9 | In 1892 , the Corporation itself took over the running of the tramway , and in the following year the situation was so bad that the current was switched off and the cars pulled by horses . |
| 10 | Once the eye is accidentally hidden behind some obstruction , the stare is switched off and the cat can attack . |
| 11 | After the robot has accumulated several observations ( I , J ) in R , the joint motors are switched off and the software chooses new joint angles J' at random , or perhaps it chooses J' in a poorly explored region . |
| 12 | In one corner of the rectangular office a television set had not been switched off and the title sequence of a forgotten film from the seventies flickered silently on the screen . |
| 13 | After a short time , however , transistor T2 is switched off and the winding current flows from the supply voltage VL via diode D2 and transistor Tl . |
| 14 | At the end of the phase excitation interval transistor Tl is also switched off and the winding current is left to flow around the path through diodes DI and D2 . |
| 15 | At the end of the excitation interval both transistors are switched off and the winding current freewheels via diodes D1 and D2 . |
| 16 | At extubation the oxygen/air was switched off and the pulse rate , blood pressure , and oxygen saturation were subsequently recorded every 10 minutes for one hour . |
| 17 | When the relay contacts open , transistor TR6 switches off and the oscillation then depends only upon the small charge remaining on capacitor C8 and the value of resistor R29 . |