Example sentences of "switch off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise in the kitchen switched off as the small second she stood there half-naked seemed to lengthen into years . |
| 2 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 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 | There was some moon which would illuminate the scene suddenly , then be gone as though switched off by the scudding cloud . |
| 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 | More expensive versions include a timer so that the light source switches off after a preset period . |