Example sentences of "to switch the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , if the patient breathes , however weakly and albeit without the regularity or strength to sustain himself , or otherwise demonstrates some sign of brain-stem functioning , then the question arises as to whether or not to switch the machine on again . |
| 2 | If there is anything that comes up and one feels sensitive about then then we can ask for them to switch the machine off . |
| 3 | Mr how much time did you lose by having to switch the machine round ? |
| 4 | After three days the family made the agonising decision to switch the machine off when they were told he would not recover . |
| 5 | Telecine transfer was , and is , the responsibility of the studio Vision Mixer whose job is to switch the output picture ( the one seen by the television audience ) between the action on the studio floor and the scenes on film from the Telecine Department . |
| 6 | The regional council says that unless it gets guarantees about the money it wants to spend on a railway service now facing privatisation , it may have to switch the money to its own plans to upgrade Glasgow public transport . |
| 7 | SHAREHOLDERS in Pacific Horizon Investment must be congratulating themselves on their decision last August to switch the trust 's investment management from Jupiter Tyndall to Edinburgh 's Baillie Gifford , after news yesterday of a 38.8 per cent leap in net asset value per share at halfway , writes George Duthie . |
| 8 | The other approach was to switch the emphasis away from the development of new sources of electricity supply to the issue of how the demand for power could be controlled in the first place . |
| 9 | We were reminded , too , how narrow the margin was , and how the RAF 's airfields were reprieved through the German High Command 's decision to switch the attack to London . |
| 10 | The Sussex man noticeably slowed as Hall continued to switch the play . |
| 11 | From 2-3 down in the third Baddeley was outplayed as Hall continued to switch the play . |
| 12 | In a FRAM chip based on SRAM , the current provides an electric field to switch the state of the ceramic . |
| 13 | He reached out a hand to switch the music on again . |
| 14 | If a bid falls flat quickly , will it be possible for the Secretary of State to switch the assistance to the other bid which was previously ruled out and to give those involved the chance further to develop their proposals ? |
| 15 | Tony Finnegan-Butler , chairman of Frinton and Walton Town Council , said yesterday he had managed to persuade the district council to switch the lights on again for a period of four hours at a reduced expenditure . |
| 16 | Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although we once had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to HIGH to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 17 | Once we had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to ‘ high ’ to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 18 | Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although once we had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to ‘ high ’ to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 19 | His first move would be to find the airport 's long-stay car park and to switch the plates on his vehicle for those on one of the more recent arrivals . |
| 20 | Equally the problems at Dagenham may have influenced the decision to switch the Sierra away to Ford 's Belgian plant at Genk even though the company 's strategy is to concentrate a single model at each plant . |
| 21 | For a moment , she could n't remember how to switch the suit to spacewalk mode . |
| 22 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 23 | If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place . |
| 24 | We tried to switch the balance , and there was a move on both sides to do that . |
| 25 | Vologsky adjusted himself in his flight couch , flexing his fingers before he gripped the control yoke again and prepared to switch the aircraft back to manual control . |
| 26 | In 1957 , for example , when Britain decided to switch the basis of its defensive system from conventional to nuclear arms , it had to negotiate through WEU to secure a reduction in the level of its troop commitment on the continent . |
| 27 | As ever , the amp is fan-cooled ; with the 3500 head I had expressed reservations about not being able to switch the fan off for recording , but John Henry 's insisted that it really would n't pose a problem in either DI 'd or close-miking situations . |
| 28 | When firms borrow abroad , however , they need to switch the cash into whatever currency they are going to have to spend the money in . |
| 29 | Rothmans , which has a major manufacturing plant in Darlington , was forced to switch the venue to Spennymoor when Sedgefield District Council stepped in with an offer . |
| 30 | Jennifer pleaded with her mother to get him to switch the pressure off . |