Example sentences of "switching the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five points instead of four for a try and the scrapping of a much-abused offside law had been regarded as inevitable , but experimental changes to rucks and mauls , switching the advantage to the defending side , received only a cautious welcome among leading coaches yesterday . |
| 2 | On the infamous ‘ night of the long keys ’ National Front deputés , finding the chamber empty as usual , rushed around all the empty desks switching the keys left in the voting machines , registering a massive vote in their favour ( which was subsequently declared null and void ) . |
| 3 | Junior Tennis Centres ( JTC ) , the company formed in 1988 by Keith Sohl and Adrian Stonebridge , with the sole purpose of switching the emphasis on court time from seniors to juniors , has ambitious plan to expand its operations countrywide . |
| 4 | Gagne ( 1970 ) attempted to produce a theory which was germane to educational problems by switching the emphasis from categories to conditions of learning . |
| 5 | Many of these systems operate with no human effort or skill apart from switching the equipment on and checking that there is sufficient paper in the computer printer or plotter and so on . |
| 6 | They also stopped switching the jumpers around , allowing Bayfield , in particular , a bit of time to settle . |
| 7 | Quickly switching the conversation , he addressed the next remark to Harry , saying , ‘ I wonder how the Duke is feeling today ; I wonder if he still thinks the exchange was worth it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's nothing , ’ Alyssia mumbled , switching the conversation into safer waters , and allowing her thoughts to drift away . |
| 9 | I am very happy , in fact , that the whole the whole process the whole business of erm switching the system has been accepted and in fact even welcomed I think by the unions . |
| 10 | If the lamp is connected to a 50 Hz AC supply then the sine wave form of the current is , in effect , continuously switching the lamp on and off . |
| 11 | And I can see the o old father when he used to have s want to make the mo the machine immobile , while he did something particular to it , so like you switching the electricity off , well , h he used to have to take the belts off . |
| 12 | And 14 minutes later , the cool Marwood foxed Wigan by switching the ball to the blindside where winger Paul Penrice evaded Martin Offiah to score in the corner . |
| 13 | It was not simply a matter of switching the definitions of crime from what the working class do to what the capitalist class do ( that would merely be a transitional strategy ) ; in the socialist society both upper- and lower-class crime would disappear since there would be ‘ a set of social arrangements in which there would be no politically , economically and socially-induced need to criminalise deviance ’ ( Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , p. 270 ) . |
| 14 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 15 | The other thing to remember is that you can damage your discs by inserting them before switching the computer on , or for that matter by leaving them in while you switch it off . |
| 16 | I delayed switching the computer off while I racked my brain trying to think of some way of saving them , but there was none . |
| 17 | When the switch is open the pins are held at +5V via R1 — allowing the SRAM to be removed , whereas when it is closed the pins are switched direct to ground — ( ) V ) switching the SRAM into circuit . |
| 18 | To keep this depth and spread without using chorus I just left the chorus switched on and backed off the rate and depth controls to 0 ; switching the chorus off again put the sound back in the middle of the speakers and sounded quite boring by comparison . |
| 19 | But , one of things that we are discovering is that when people complain about drafts er , we 've been switching the air conditioning up and down to balance it up to suit the individuals needs . |
| 20 | ‘ I was about to go for a turn around the village , ’ said Hope , switching the subject , as he thought , adroitly . |
| 21 | ‘ Your ankle appears to have made a remarkable recovery , ’ he said caustically , switching the subject . |
| 22 | It should be noted that the accused would have had no defence to a charge of obtaining property by deception by switching the price labels . |
| 23 | Gooch the general who 's been switching the field around as to suit each batsman . |
| 24 | The circuit can be reset by momentarily switching the unit off . |
| 25 | This allows users to resume from the point they left by electronically ‘ marking ’ it before switching the unit off . |
| 26 | After an hour or so they are given a brief rest by switching the lights off and then they are tested by being given a choice between attempting to follow the light on which they had been imprinted ( say the red ) and another , unfamiliar light , say the yellow . |
| 27 | That 's what retired employees from the plant decided on a show of hands this year when they were given the option of switching the event to Christmas . |
| 28 | The Brigadier was bouncing the jeep once again along the road out of Pontino , sending up sprays of wet grit and grumbling continually under his breath , this time because he had to keep switching the wipers on and off . |
| 29 | The Northern authorities confirmed tonight they would n't be switching the tie despite the obvious security risk . |
| 30 | Avoid switching the machine on and off many times during the day . |