Example sentences of "be switch off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the presence of a sustained stimulus , here , which is lasting around two milliseconds , the channels are switching off with a time constant of what around half a millisecond . |
| 2 | Freezers and immersion heaters will be switched off for no more than 15 minutes at a time during peak-load periods . |
| 3 | A lower setting gives slight orbital movement for harder materials , while the third setting allows the orbital action to be switched off for a straight reciprocating movement for filing or rasping , or fine cutting in hard materials . |
| 4 | But if we create a psychology in this country where to the men and women who earn the crust upon which we depend , our business community , are switched off to the significance of Europe , there 's only one people who 'll suffer and it is us . |
| 5 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 6 | The family , he said , were coping well — including Tim 's brother and sister Dominic and Abby who said their goodbyes before the life-support machine was switched off at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Liverpool . |