Example sentences of "on the screen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the limitations of writing a script to accompany images on the screen become clear on the printed page . |
| 2 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 3 | Alan was on the screen ; there were streaks of blood on his face , his arm was strapped up and he wore a blanket round his shoulders . |
| 4 | American football was on the screen . |
| 5 | On the screen Derek Carlisle said , ‘ Our foreign affairs correspondent , Trevor Newsom , is now in the studio on Luctia , ready to explain to us the background to today 's decisions by the Council of the Galaxy . ’ |
| 6 | A twisted sculpture appeared on the screen . |
| 7 | A vast auditorium appeared on the screen ; every seat was filled ; at the far end was a platform . |
| 8 | On the screen there were scenes of rioting and looting . |
| 9 | Loud music flooded the room ; on the screen people were dancing , as far as the eye could see . |
| 10 | No one outside of the wilder sects of the artificial intelligence fraternity would suggest that a device that translated morse into natural language characters on the screen of a computer was releasing the consciousness implicit in morse . |
| 11 | This is illustrated in Fig. 6 , showing typical mapping from the start of the four bit plane base addresses and the first line of pixels on the screen . |
| 12 | Four different parts of a plot can be viewed at once on the screen , the X and/or Y scaled between linear and logarithmic and size of the plotted data points changed . |
| 13 | For processors which have more complex architectures it is not always possible to have all features present on the screen simultaneously — unless you have dynamic windowing . |
| 14 | The task is to follow lead car , which also appears on the screen , and travels at a varying rate . |
| 15 | Alarm messages appear on the screen if the chase car gets too close to , or too far from , the lead car . |
| 16 | Although he found that television is far less violent than in Japan , the United States , France or West Germany , Dr Tadecki intends to campaign with Mary Whitehouse to curb violence on the screen . |
| 17 | He also published a novel , acted in movies and assisted on the screen plays of others ; but he did not direct again after 1974 , perhaps because a much-anticipated family saga , La Maison des Bories , reveals many of the faults of those film-makers swept away by the nouvelle vague , and none of the movement 's freshness . |
| 18 | The only traces of bladed corn are machine-produced , a flickering film projected onstage showing sunshine , harvest and children , blotted out by Macbeth 's huge shadow on the screen . |
| 19 | A black and white photo of a young man appeared on the screen . |
| 20 | Suddenly on the screen there appears a clock set in the centre of the kind of sumptuous salon that epoch , and Feuillade , alone had a taste for ; it shows 4.40 p.m . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's your father up there on the screen , ’ she said . |
| 22 | Thus the magic lasted , and always lasts if the images on the screen take possession . |
| 23 | We would spend the afternoon re-enacting in the parking lot behind the apartment what we had seen in the morning on the screen . |
| 24 | But the house hanging over the cliff got me into agonies of suspense , and I was amazed , when the dark came without bombs , by how the black on the screen , especially the black of Charlie Chaplin 's suit , his moustache , hat and rolling intense eyes , fitted the darkness of the little cinema . |
| 25 | On the screen a woman nonchalantly opens the lid of a washing machine and out leaps one of the Things . |
| 26 | This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen , which were otherwise a fabulous mystery . |
| 27 | The cinema was immediately adjacent to our house , so that every night we could hear the film and imagine what was on the screen . |
| 28 | Down below were the pink seashell murals lit by fluorescent lights , and distant black and white movies on the screen . |
| 29 | On the screen the actor had reached orgasm . |
| 30 | I kept wondering what it had to do with the cowboy we were going to see on the screen . |