Sentence examples for becomes active only when from inspiring English sources

A screen becomes active only when customers step near; it goes to sleep within a second of their leaving, said Mr. Jensen at Intel, so power use is reduced.

Flucytosine (5-FC) is unique in that it becomes active only when converted to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) by an enzyme, cytosine deaminase, found in fungi but not present in human cells.

With this mechanism MT remains most of the time in a sleep mode and becomes active only when a target burst is broadcast on air.

Q0 becomes active only when the water level in the upper groundwater box, SUZ (mm), exceeds the threshold filling UZL (mm).

The rising edge-triggered genetic JK flip-flop becomes active only when the clock pulse goes from low to high.

In this system, the Cre is fragmented into two non-functional fragments and becomes active only when expressed in the same cells.

PUP has insisted it will only support Direct Action if the government accepts its proposal for a "dormant" emissions trading scheme, which would become "active" only when the climate change authority decides that major trading partners EU, Japan, Korea and China had in place their own ETS or "equivalent measures" to make a "comparable effort" on reducing greenhouse emissions.

Much of the scholarship on rights—including disability rights—assumes that they become active only when an individual makes a rights-based claim.

"Would [we] slow it, stabilize it, or would we reverse it?" He and his colleagues genetically engineered a new batch of mice with the same infirmity, but this time they added back a telomerase gene that became active only when the mice received a certain drug.

So-called place cells located in this region become active only when the rat is in a particular location — called a place field — in the environment.

Another group of area 9 neurons became active only when subjects reproduced a specific interval without external cues.