Example sentences of "on to the screen " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see . |
| 2 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 3 | And John Grierson persistently praised Hitchcock for putting ordinary people on to the screen , while attacking Asquith for making films that reflected ‘ a leisure-class England which has lost contact with fundamentals , with the toiling earth and the men who go with it . ’ |
| 4 | Balcon echoed Korda with his pledge that Ealing Studios would ‘ grasp with both hands the opportunity of putting every phase of the war on to the screen . ’ |
| 5 | Then Gazzer 's boyish face , grinning , cracking jokes , leapt up on to the screen . |
| 6 | TV viewers , astute ones , will notice when Norman first hoves on to the screen that his swing is very upright , which is how he started playing this game . |
| 7 | As directors of horror movies know so well , there is no better way to scare their audience than to have some unidentified object flash suddenly on to the screen , very close to the hero 's face . |
| 8 | However , a lot of that never made it on to the screen . |
| 9 | Hence it comes , tottering on to the screen , like a faded rock star — still swinging after all these years , still looking for the party . |
| 10 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 11 | Finally , after a comm-call to the Emissary brought Lord y'Fiprehaude himself on to the screen , to simper a confirmation , the warden grudgingly gave me clearance . |
| 12 | " It was as if some Technicolour epic of Cecil B. De Milles was being projected on to the screen of the vast plain . " |
| 13 | Okay this is light being transmitted through these colours and up on to the screen . |
| 14 | The " Copydesk " facility allows the user to input text in various forms on to the screen and thus create a true newspaper page . |
| 15 | By using pupils to create graphics , school librarians can transfer actual displays of new material on to the screen , for example , by recreating book covers or pages from CAL software . |
| 16 | Lindsey slid the X-ray on to the screen , leaning forward to study it more closely . |
| 17 | THE computer giant Amstrad yesterday announced what it said was the world 's first ‘ personal digital assistant ’ — a pocket-sized computer that allows the user to write directly on to the screen with a special pen . |