Example sentences of "[vb mod] switch [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government sources have suggested that the country 's tourist industry should switch away from package holidays towards more up-market " cultural " tourism . |
| 2 | DRIVERS should switch off their car telephones at petrol stations because of the risk of explosions . |
| 3 | I have given instructions to Brian Lewis that if members of staff are found trying to abuse this facility he should switch off the lift system entirety . |
| 4 | Then you must switch up , using the pedals marked ‘ patch bank up ’ and ‘ down ’ , to bank 1.2 , 1.3 and so on up to 1.8 . |
| 5 | If you ignore the ‘ whisper ’ of the blocked sink , you might switch on the radio a few days later , and immediately hear of a severe traffic jam in the Dartford Tunnel . |
| 6 | So it 's got to be something you can relate to , and once the model gets too far removed from reality , he 'll switch off . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't let them rattle on ; when you have had enough , smile sweetly , say ‘ many thanks ’ and we 'll switch off the lights . ’ |
| 8 | well I 'll switch off if I 'm being something rather good , so do n't I feel a bit sorry for those goldfish . |
| 9 | well it 'll switch off when it 's done |
| 10 | But his skin would crawl as if he 'd somehow sensed that he was being watched , and he 'd switch on every light that he could find , including the big spotlights out over what would one day become the car park . |
| 11 | They found they could switch on particular groups of atoms with a pulse of electricity and they stayed switched on for up to two days . |
| 12 | I thought we could switch on the yard lights and have it outside . ’ |
| 13 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 14 | His aim , from his Northampton days on , was a team that could switch quickly from attack to defence and back again as the game dictated : and the development of Arsenal 's defence-in-depth system was matched by the creation of one of the most powerful forward lines in soccer history . |
| 15 | This should mean that pesticides will last longer , because they could be used in other areas before resistance spreads , and researchers could switch back to using the original pesticide once resistance has been wiped out , she said . |
| 16 | This may conflict with the chronological age , and the person may switch backwards and forwards from one age to another , so it requires alertness to work out what the person is feeling . |
| 17 | But it would also take 700 000 travellers out of their cars and over a million passengers would switch over from air travel . |
| 18 | At night , when he was getting ready for bed , he would switch on his bedside lamp and stand with his back to it so he could see his shadow against the far wall . |
| 19 | Having kept too many new air-conditioning units going all day , they would be suddenly burdened by the lights of the night and would switch off , blacking out the whole town . |
| 20 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
| 21 | Mr Wigley will switch on one of two transmitters at Bron Hebog mast . |
| 22 | ‘ BR will switch on to a commercial footing and something will have to go . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Mail shots sent to large address lists will switch automatically to fax where recipients are not on cc:Mail . |
| 25 | It seems likely that once the current project is complete , Mead will switch entirely to Unix systems . |
| 26 | Once the election is over , the Hisex Brown hybrid hens will switch back to Radio 4 . |
| 27 | Just how much people will switch out of sterling depends on how much they think the exchange rate will depreciate . |
| 28 | That 's all from you so can we have the financial report and you will switch off sir . |
| 29 | Lucas Bryce , now on the Gloucester Trading Estate , will switch there . |
| 30 | But it also has built in a Help facility , teaching aids , so that if at some point in the middle of developing your program you forget something , you can ask the system erm to tell you for instance how to use one of its facilities , and you can get onto the screen some information about that , and then carry on where you were , and you can switch easily between different modes . |