Example sentences of "switched on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 2 | The tutor 's personal machine switched on to the cube . |
| 3 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 4 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 5 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 6 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 7 | She had been packed for a day or so , but had realized as she took a last look round that her fridge was still switched on with a bottle of milk inside . |
| 8 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 9 | The problem for Galileo was that , once suspicions were aroused , the machinery of censorship could be switched on at a moment 's notice . |
| 10 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |
| 11 | None of the following devices should , on any account , be switched on at the same time : the immersion heater in the master bathroom , the swimming-pool filter or the dishwashing machine . |
| 12 | Is it switched on at the moment ? |
| 13 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 14 | As when the light is switched on behind the gauze |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This diversification requires that the genes coding for the ‘ luxury ’ proteins in these cell types are switched on in the appropriate cell . |
| 17 | When customers complained , they were blithely informed that while Ma Rainey sang , an electric light had been switched on in the studio . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 22 | A special type of outside light is the security light , which is switched on by a passive infra-red ( PIR ) sensor ( usually , but not always , part of the light fitting ) , whenever someone approaches . |
| 23 | Second , changes in genes can alter the responses of cells locally to the inducing chemical : different genes could be switched on by the same stimulus . |