Example sentences of "[be] switch on in the " in BNC.

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1 This diversification requires that the genes coding for the ‘ luxury ’ proteins in these cell types are switched on in the appropriate cell .
2 The lights are switched on in the classrooms , Outside the sky 's nearly black , And the dinning-hall smells of gravy and fat And Chubb has boils down his back .
3 When customers complained , they were blithely informed that while Ma Rainey sang , an electric light had been switched on in the studio .
4 There was no sound of a light 's being switched on in the sitting room , but we might not have been able to hear it .
5 But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures .
6 Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house .
7 The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me .
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