Sentence examples for before a computer screen from inspiring English sources

They sat before a computer screen that showed them either an Arab or a Jewish name together with a word describing either a negative or a positive trait.

I imagined Wolfson stomping murderously on the doll, then sitting calmly before a computer screen to give it a human face.

Then, during one session, the men sat for 90 minutes before a computer screen, intently watching individual letters flash by while they counted every four and punched various keys, depending on how each grouping of the letters was configured.

Though the Internet is excellent for finding information, sitting alone before a computer screen for "virtual" life experiences can deprive us of the sensory awareness and human contact we need for our physical, psychological and social well-being.

Colleagues who remained at their campaign headquarters in Appleton were disconsolate, slumped before a computer screen, slowly realising that almost 500 days of rebellion had ended in failure despite impressive mobilisation of their base.

But when researchers asked snowboarders and skiers to wear caps, helmets, goggles or various combinations of each for a 2011 study and then had them sit before a computer screen and press a button when certain images popped up, they found that volunteers' peripheral vision and reaction times were virtually unchanged when they wore a helmet, compared with wearing a hat.

It then linked up just over 100 testers and asked them to read a passage of text on a computer screen, before interrupting the participants with one-minute messages – like phone calls.

Most have never seen a computer screen before their teachers take them to the local Internet café to log their progress on The School Fund website.

In the standard version of the visual probe task, pairs of pictures or words – one drug-related and one neutral stimulus - are presented briefly on a computer screen before a probe appears in the location formerly occupied by one of the pictures or words.

I was still grieving and there were days where I'd finish training at 1pm, go home to my house on my own, sit at a computer screen and before I knew it, it was 10pm and I hadn't even eaten.

(A control group was not given a writing task). Participants were then given information to read about 48 individual features (such as mileage, handling, year and trunk capacity) of four different cars — twelve features per car — and had only seven seconds to absorb each piece of information before the next piece appeared on a computer screen.