The phrase "activating he said" is not correct in written English.
It appears to be a fragment and lacks clarity or proper structure.
Example: "Activating, he said, would require more resources than we anticipated."
Alternatives: "he stated" or "he mentioned".
"I am on the phone activating," he said, which coming from one of the few remaining political bosses in New York City means something.
"If it's raining when the sprinkler system is supposed to turn on, the sensor overrides the controller and prevents the system from activating," he said, adding that such sensors are relatively inexpensive -- $25 to $50 in most home centers.
"A handful" of RelayRides vehicles have OnStar activated, he said.
For the construction of that narrative, the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art's collection is a "resource lying dormant that needs to be activated," he said.
"A lot of terror cells sitting right here, waiting to be activated," he said.
The unit had a smoke alarm that had activated, he said, but the unit was not equipped with optional fire sprinklers.
"So whatever unforeseen misbehaviour arises, the moral turpitude clause can be activated," he says.
That suggests that it may be too simple to think of a receptor like CB1 as a mere switch that always does the same thing if it is activated, he says.
The experiments suggest that taking a test improves memory of related but untested material, says Chan. "If students take a test on only half of the materials in a class, their memory of the other half is not just laying around and not being activated," he says, suggesting several tests over a semester might improve students' performance on a final exam.
"I think it is a subtle enough drug that it doesn't just activate everything," he said.
"I hope it really activates people," he said.
