Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adj] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Benefits are withheld for reasons indirectly related at best to the activity in question .
2 Again , the conditions are very very different in every place , so if you go to Honduras , erm they have 2 million hectares of tropical forest , which is scarcely being used at all to the use of timber , but is being steadily cut down , and turned into , first peasant agriculture , and second , ranching .
3 Bearing this in mind , together with the further possibility of reprovisioning the redesigned space station using Russian rockets , NASA 's review team is considering an orbit for its station that would be inclined at 51.6 to the equator — the sort of orbit that can be reached from the launch sites the Russians use .
4 IN A culture and a century that have doubts about matching up to Prince Hamlet , feeling fitted at best to the role of attendant lord , it 's astonishing that Shakespeare 's Henry V should become , except at a time of national emergency , a resonant figure of any sort .
5 The official exchange rate was fixed at US$1.00=NK60 as of Oct. 1 ( hitherto approximately 30 to the dollar ) ; on the unofficial parallel market , however , the currency was traded at 2,000 to the dollar .
6 As the barge swept silently towards the docking bay , Rostov noted the clusters of scanners and other unidentifiable telemetry which appeared to have been attached at random to the hull .
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