Example sentences of "[verb] at right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Face to face is the most formal , side by side the least formal , seating at right angles is often a suitable compromise . |
| 2 | Like a fork bent at right angles . |
| 3 | More like a pitch fork bent at right angles then ? |
| 4 | But bent at right angles . |
| 5 | Birchall ( like Rolf Biland 's passenger Kurt Waltisperg ) keeps both feet in all the time , and lies at right angles across the back of the bike . |
| 6 | The lines joining these centres represent the directions of greatest tensile stress in the lava flow as it cools , and the hexagonal joint patterns are generated by cracks forming at right angles to these maximum stress lines . |
| 7 | The front door is often covered with a massive porch , sheltering a pair of much-used benches built at right angles to the house . |
| 8 | A high frequency signal is fed into the two layers , the signals are normally either opposite in phase or connected at right angles to each other . |
| 9 | This abolishes the component of tension acting at right angles to the cut , while the tangential tension remains , suppressing lamellipodia and provoking formation of an actin cable , which in turn presumably reinforces the tangential tension . |
| 10 | It has two vertical rows of three teeth and these are positioned at right angles to the shank , to give maximum leverage in use . |
| 11 | Wilson , born in Banbury and who qualified for Northern Ireland through his mother 's Co Londonderry birth , has operated at right back for Notts County in recent matches . |
| 12 | The tube lines do not , of course , lie at right angles to one another like the streets of Manhattan . |
| 13 | Although the fibrils are arranged radially , the molecular chains lie at right angles to the fibril axis . |
| 14 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 15 | At its eastern end two second-century buildings were identified , that to the south ( Building 2a ) lying at right angles to the frontage and apparently comprising a suite of rooms c. 7.5 by 3.5 m ( 24½ by 11½ ft ) , on Hamstone foundations . |
| 16 | Two massive walls were recorded in 1891 lying at right angles to the line of the town wall under the modern street , but no proof of their Roman origin was obtained . |
| 17 | Actually , it is very effective as a screwdriver , as it is used at right angles to the screw , and therefore provided great leverage . |
| 18 | In time , with large scale mounding and excess extensive planting , routes could be integrated to a certain extent , but where valleys are crossed at right angles by bridges or embankments , the visual result will always be alien to the landscape . |
| 19 | Although the gliders were left facing at right angles to the wind and were weighted down with tyres in the approved manner , when the first strong thermal went off nearby the wind would become gusty and change direction completely . |
| 20 | During a study of the various styles , it became apparent to me that if the back legs are set into the seat rails at an angle , this angle , together with the curvature of the rear legs and backward slope of the chair back can regulate the flair : if the legs are mounted at right angles to the rear seat rail , there would be no flair . |
| 21 | A conventional joystick uses a pair of potentiometers mounted at right angles to each other , the spindles being mechanically linked to a central knob . |
| 22 | When a length of wire is suspended in a magnetic field , the wire will move at right angles to the magnetic flux whenever an electric current is passed along it . |
| 23 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 24 | Light is an electromagnetic wave , produced by the interaction of a magnetic and electric field , both oscillating at right angles to one another in the direction of propagation . |
| 25 | If you add a second set of stripes , at right angles to the first but also moving at right angles to their axis , the person will not see two sets of stripes but a set of chevrons moving at 45 degrees to the true directions of movement . |
| 26 | Set at right angles to one side of the fireplace was a two-seat wooden settle , and at the other side a much larger leather couch . |
| 27 | It is a wheel of vanes set at right angles to the sails , so that if the wind is not striking the sails , it must strike the fantail and turn the sails into the wind again . |
| 28 | A wall of storage units will make provision for most of the paraphernalia you own and might either incorporate a bar and a desk flap to let down , or a permanent table set at right angles to shelves and cupboards for work , games , sewing and hobbies . |
| 29 | This supports two distinct modes of light propagation polarised at right angles to each other . |
| 30 | The tendency for spits to be orientated at right angles to the dominant waves is well illustrated by Hurst Castle Spit which is particularly instructive in this respect for the spit does not continue the direction of the coast west of Milford , which is west-north-west to east-south-east , but orientates itself north-west to south-east , thus demonstrating the connection with wave direction . |