Example sentences of "to switch on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In a few hurried situations I forgot to switch on , and missed the picture opportunity while trying to figure out why the camera was n't working . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , this is not to be , since it transpires that the gentleman from British Rail was nothing short of a duplicitous cad ; there are no small compartments , just open-plan carriages too large to be defended by even the most outrageous behaviour , so I slump sullenly into a corner , wallowing in layers of dust and grime that would easily qualify for a Quentin Crisp kitemark , waiting for the guard to switch on the heat and the lights , preparatory to the departure of the Sir John . |
| 4 | For example , substance P can be used to control not its own synthesis but some other pathway , just as a thermostat could be used to switch on the television instead of the boiler . |
| 5 | No matter how erratic the weather , the unit will decide what time to switch on — based upon what time you want to get up and the temperature you want . |
| 6 | if it requires a recall of emotion , it is often sufficient merely to switch on the emotion rather than elicit it ( as when you trip over the cat ! ) . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't have to switch on the computer , load the program and recall a file from disc — you just switch on and it 's there , ’ Lyndon-James says . |
| 8 | She rose to draw the curtains and to switch on the lamp . |
| 9 | Each year a celebrity is chosen to switch on the Illuminations in Talbot Square , followed for many years by a tour of the Lights by tram . |
| 10 | It is very easy to switch on toggles by accident , causing unexpected problems when typing in text . |
| 11 | Follow steps 1–5 above to switch on page numbering . |
| 12 | Thinking about the macrobes has led Mendelson to speculate in turn that the life cycle of the original bacterium may be controlled by the surface of the cells and that the helical arrangement of the polymers may tell the genes when to switch on and off — a sort of helical egg timer . |
| 13 | The message may also contain an instruction which tells the device to switch on , switch off or perform some other action . |
| 14 | Last Saturday — Father Christmas arrives to switch on festive Christmas lights |
| 15 | It took her a minute to unlock the car and then she sat shaking behind the wheel , waiting until her hands were steady enough to switch on the ignition . |
| 16 | Cold-blooded creatures would need very even temperatures if their intelligence was not to switch on and off with variations in the weather . |
| 17 | Mode 2 offers instant patch selection by pressing the actual patch number ( hitting switch 3 and 6 gives patch 36 ) , while Mode 3 can be used to switch on or off ( via the ten preset switches ) any patch parameter . |
| 18 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
| 19 | Players have to learn to control their minds , learn how to switch on and off . |
| 20 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 21 | IN an energy-conscious world , is it right for towns to switch on their Christmas lights so many weeks before the big day ? |
| 22 | While waiting for her passengers as they inspected isolated gun-sites on windswept clifftops and rocky promontories , Liza was urged by her passengers to switch on the car engine to keep herself warm , however much she knew this procedure to be frowned upon by her direct superiors at Command Headquarters . |
| 23 | The Olympic 100 metres champion has signed a new six-figure deal to head Lucozade 's TV campaigns and has been asked to do everything from race a greyhound to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas lights . |
| 24 | From the submenu , we need to switch ON ( white background ) , the ROTATE icon ( the circular arrow ) . |
| 25 | He dropped the padlock on to the floor then pushed the heavy door open and reached inside to switch on the light . |
| 26 | When she accepted her first solo public duty , to switch on the Christmas lights at Regent Street in London 's West End , she was paralyzed with nerves . |
| 27 | The subject known , broadly , as Science , was at first her favourite , because she liked playing with Bunsen burners : at home she was not allowed even to switch on the gas fire . |
| 28 | Note any parts of the room which are bad for viewing — you might need to move people when you 're going to switch on . |
| 29 | It is linked to a video recorder in the room and all the teacher has to do is to switch on when she or he wants to be recorded . |
| 30 | On Rob 's morning show , join me Jenny this Monday , the nineteenth of July , when I 'll pop down to the Urban Traffic Control Centre in Nottingham City Centre , to switch on all those traffic lights . |