Example sentences of "[be] switched on " in BNC.
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| 1 | These instruments should be switched on and checked before reaching cloud base . |
| 2 | Second , we have to be sufficiently alert : the apparatus has to be switched on . |
| 3 | The television had not defeated her because nothing had ever gone wrong with it , and it had only to be switched on and off or , scarcely more complicated , over . |
| 4 | The two reactions of the repressor protein , with the operator region of the chromosome and with the inducing galactoside molecules , are non-covalent , and therefore readily reversible , so that synthesis can be switched on and off repeatedly . |
| 5 | Second , changes in genes can alter the responses of cells locally to the inducing chemical : different genes could be switched on by the same stimulus . |
| 6 | There are two common types both of which can be switched on or off according to need . |
| 7 | Particular genes can be switched on and off at particular times because the bottleneck/growth-cycle calendar ensures that there is such a thing as a particular time . |
| 8 | That is , it is not a matter of switching them off , but of whether they should be switched on either initially or again after suitable tests have been carried out . |
| 9 | The machine need not be switched on again . |
| 10 | Third , if the patient breathes on his own so as to sustain himself successfully , then the ventilator is not needed and need not be switched on again . |
| 11 | More cash for the technological preparation for NET , the Next European Torus that will follow on from JET , the Joint European Torus which should be switched on in May . |
| 12 | The advantage of hydroelectric generators is that they can be switched on and of easily , according to demand . |
| 13 | But here electrons are somehow flowing the length of the channel without being scattered to any measurable extent , yet the scattering can be switched on again simply by varying the gate voltage , Vg , enough to bring the Hall voltage off a plateau . |
| 14 | Sex can not be switched on to order within a marriage . |
| 15 | Each room should have a centre light which can be switched on before entering it , as well as table lamps , and there should be no trailing wires or flex that the elderly person could trip over . |
| 16 | The equipment can be switched on and off by two switches on the front of the unit , and a red light tells you the power is on . |
| 17 | Funds can be switched on the same day from one currency to another by use of a personal identification number ( PIN ) , free of charge save for the foreign exchange commission of 0.1% , minimum £5 , maximum £20 . |
| 18 | Assuming all is well so far , the filters and heaters can now be switched on and left to clear the inevitable cloudiness while the temperature settles to around 25°C , at the Fluval 3 end , a couple of degrees lower at the other . |
| 19 | Each room was wired on a different circuit so that the lights in it could be switched on and off at will . |
| 20 | Jaq presumed that periodically these would be switched on to prune the jungle back . |
| 21 | Magnetic materials made up of nanocrystals ought to be better because their magnetism can be switched on and off more swiftly . |
| 22 | Modern consumer units contain small electro-mechanical switches called miniature circuit breakers ( MCBs ) instead of fuses ; these simply switch themselves off automatically in the event of a fault , and can be switched on again once it has been corrected . |
| 23 | The problem for Galileo was that , once suspicions were aroused , the machinery of censorship could be switched on at a moment 's notice . |
| 24 | The backlit facility can be switched on and off . |
| 25 | None of the following devices should , on any account , be switched on at the same time : the immersion heater in the master bathroom , the swimming-pool filter or the dishwashing machine . |
| 26 | The variable-reluctance stepping motor has at least three phases , but the phase currents need only be switched on or off ; the current polarity is irrelevant to torque production . |
| 27 | The voltage applied to each phase circuit is a d.c. supply which can be switched on or off in the positive or negative sense . |
| 28 | When the system is decelerating the motor must produce a negative torque and therefore each phase must be switched on after the rotor has passed the phase equilibrium position . |
| 29 | This transition in the comparator output is used to generate the position detector pulse [ Fig. 7.12/1 ) ] , which occurs at the time when winding C should be switched on and therefore can be used directly as a step command . |
| 30 | As most villagers work in the fields during the day , the supply need only be switched on between five in the evening and eight in the morning . |