Example sentences of "at the [adj] angle " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 2 | Standing at the right angle , we are dazzled by the colours of the rainbow in colourless ice . |
| 3 | I extract significance from melodrama , a significance which it does not in fact contain ; but occasionally , from out of this matter , there escapes a thin beam of light that , seen at the right angle , can crack the shell of mortality . |
| 4 | at the right angle , inflated , unperturbed . |
| 5 | You did n't see it at first , but you saw if you held you head at the right angle . |
| 6 | He moaned about ‘ declining standards ’ and fondly recalled his own early days when each detective had to wear a dark striped , three-piece suit , an Anthony Eden homburg , and a watch chain at the correct angle . |
| 7 | He had , as it were , taken to heart Labour 's advice to constituency parties on the display of their leaflets and other electioneering wares : ‘ Use rose at the correct angle , and do not cut off stem . ’ |
| 8 | This is often an unintentional form of steering which happens when the sail is not at the correct angle to the wind — the section of the sail next to the mast does not fill with wind and the driving force acts from a couple of feet farther back . |
| 9 | She pulled the strings of her apron until the bow at the back was just right , and perched her white cap at the correct angle on her head to make it sit pertly on her dark curls . |
| 10 | With the Proman , a series of parallel slots along the length of the horizontal frame section allows the workpiece to be propped at the correct angle before cutting . |
| 11 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 12 | One thing High-Force is , though , is a perfectly viable proposition for anyone possessing a couple of thick steamers , a fullface helmet , a padded out Topolino , a good buoyancy aid and the ability to maintain an upright position , holding the boat at the correct angle over the third drop . |
| 13 | Then it was possible for the expert to pick out a glazed tile , though only if it had sunk at the correct angle to the river bed . |
| 14 | Use a spirit level and gauge board to lay the pipe at the correct angle |
| 15 | Make sure that the ladder you are working on is secure and put up at the correct angle ( 1 metre out for every 4 metres up the wall ) . |
| 16 | It would be a neat trick of fate if he survived the plasma energy weapons of the platforms only to be burned to a crisp because the pod entered the upper atmosphere of Tarvaras at the incorrect angle . |
| 17 | But today Tilda was alone , looking down at the slanting angle of the decks as the cables gave or tightened , the passive shoreline , the secret water . |
| 18 | It was certainly there , and was very wide , and at the wrong angle to fit the building to which it belonged . |
| 19 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 20 | By the third week , if a pupil from one school felt that a pupil from the other school was taking up too much space , or holding the microphone at the wrong angle , or not performing a task quickly enough , they would be told . |
| 21 | the result of superimposing half-tone screens at the wrong angle thereby giving a chequered effect on the printed half-tone . |
| 22 | After my canvas was half painted , however , I realised that the canvas was at the wrong angle . |
| 23 | This is linked to long and short-sightedness , in that it 's the result of a malformation of the eye — in this case , an uneven curving of the cornea ( the covering over the front of the eye ) which means light enters the eye at the wrong angle . |
| 24 | Not only that , but it is placed at the wrong angle . |
| 25 | But even then it 's at the wrong angle , you , you must n't , you should n't put your hand right inside . |
| 26 | The bench table is fitted with a very useful horizontal angleguide which can be locked into any position in front of the disc , or it can be locked at the desired angle while being free to slide in a slot parallel with the disc face . |
| 27 | You could make complicated calculations , but an alternative is to set the blade for cutting the segments flat , but to hold the plank at the desired angle as you cut . |
| 28 | To obtain uniform segments I use a cutting jig to hold the plank at the desired angle . |
| 29 | And suddenly I caught sight of this … prat sailing down the Cam back towards Cambridge in a punt , with a girl doing all the work , while he reclined at the exact angle , trying to play a chord and strum a tune … |