Example sentences of "to switch on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If new proteins are to be made , the DNA must be activated in some way , so as to switch on the relevant genes . |
| 2 | Well he had to switch on the interior light to be able to fill out the form . |
| 3 | Television was so quick to join the Yuppie Backlash that there is now a real danger of a Yuppie Backlash Drama Backlash , in which the viewer starts muttering about not being able to switch on the bloody set without seeing a broker being broken . |
| 4 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 5 | He reached to switch on the soft bedside light . |
| 6 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |