Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The points must be placed at right angles to the ice for maximum support and the feet kept about hip width apart for stability , and to spread the load . |
| 2 | By zig-zagging up the slope the strain can be lessened , but the foot that is front pointing must still be placed at right angles to the slope ( Fig 7 ) . |
| 3 | They can only be resolved at great danger to myself and so I beg you , my Lord , to order my withdrawal from this country for Satan walks here . |
| 4 | The public are thoroughly fed up with prisoners smashing up prisones , which then have to be repaired at vast expense to the taxpayer , and with attempted escapes which cause injury to dedicated prison officers . |
| 5 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 6 | A Midland TESSA may be transferred at any time to any Midland branch or other Financial Institution . |
| 7 | Trophies will be presented at Annual Conference to the winning branch runners-up . |
| 8 | Although it should not normally be necessary , ‘ bulk ’ can be used at any time to completely refresh LIFESPAN information in the relational database . |
| 9 | Both blades can be locked at 90 degrees to the grip , the smaller to serve as a pick the larger as a form of mattock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although a plan oblique projection can be set at any angle to the horizontal , the other common form is 60° , 30° . |
| 12 | In addition , Treasury bills can be issued at any time to government departments and the Issue Department of the Bank of England . |
| 13 | First of all they are sorted into groups of similar material : pottery , brooches , pieces of worked stone , and so on ; these may be sent at this stage to various specialists , who will study them and write a technical report . |
| 14 | ' … [ The ] load of polluting matter discharged should be controlled at all times to exactly the level that a river would accept without hamming river uses or the environment' ( unpubl. agency document ) . |