Example sentences of "[noun pl] at right [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There are two flights of broad steps at right angles to each other , descending to the paved courtyard : the arrangement is reminiscent of the Theatral Area at Knossos , though at Phaistos it is located in the north-east corner of the West Court .
2 So it pays to arrange the squares at right angles to the leading edges or at right angles to the spine .
3 On the top terrace was a line of cypress leylandii trees , quite small as yet , eight rhododendron bushes — obviously fairly recent plantings , and on ground level a grinding stone four feet across which had been set on a granite plinth and made into a table with slate seats supported on bricks at right angles to it .
4 At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them .
5 Where the offshore topography consists of deeper and shallower areas at right angles to the coast , incoming waves will be less retarded in the troughs and so produce divergences , while the shallower areas will be areas of convergence , submarine equivalents of the pattern of waves round headlands ( Fig. 8.7 ) .
6 The cone can be sliced lengthwise by two planes at right angles , offering a vertical-horizontal cross like a gunsight to the eye .
7 Moreover , as the two pairs of bonds define two planes at right angles to each other , one of the two b components is b 1 and the other b 2 , in the overall C 2v symmetry of the complex .
8 If walls are not suitable to pin cladding on direct , fix battens at right angles to the planned direction of the cladding .
9 In drawing such sections it is normal to have them at equal distances at right angles to the guide line which ensures that they are correctly related .
10 By making a magnetometer with two pickup coils at right angles and orienting it to give the maximum and null outputs referred to , the magnitude variations and angular variations are effectively separated .
11 When the weather is very cold they can not fly at all , but can warm themselves by deflecting their wings at right angles to the Sun ( as do , for example , locusts ) .
12 For instance , some timbers , notably oak , have a certain number of fibres , medullary rays , running radially in the trunk and thus crossing the longitudinal fibres at right angles .
13 Apart from growth lines , the outer surface of the shell may be smooth , or there may be a series of raised ridges ( cords ) running down the whorls at right angles to the lip .
14 Even though his house is leaning over , the sides of the windows still meet the tops and bottoms of the windows at right angles .
15 Incidentally Ray Wallace had a couple of decent games at Right Back at the end of the season .
16 There are three pairs of semicircular canals , which signal rotations around three axes at right angles to each other .
17 The two right hand and two left hand glazing bars , where they joined the curved members were cut with mortice joints , then loose tenons glued into the top of glazing bars at right angles to housing to remove problem of short grain on tenons .
18 To repair the defect , first use a sharp knife to make two cuts at right angles across the blister .
19 It also had a balancing mechanism contrived from two arching tubes at right angles to one another in a vertical plane .
20 Parallels at right angles to the first set have a vanishing point VP 2 at N .
21 He placed two of the sticks at right angles overlapping and began to twist the wire to fix the two sticks together .
22 A crystal of common salt is a packed , orderly array of sodium ions alternating with chloride ions at right angles to one another .
23 Keep your wrists loose , elbows at right angles , and tap your fingertips quickly and rhythmically over the area .
24 To ease tight hands , place them together , palm facing palm , elbows at right angles .
25 Insert the cuttings by pushing each one down into the sand about 4–5 inches ( 10–12cm ) apart and with the leaves at right angles to the line of the slit , so that growth emanating from the axillary buds grows out into free space between the rows , not into the cutting next door .
26 CONVENTIONAL TV works with two deflectors at right angles acting on an electron beam to give a two-dimensional , scanned image .
27 To make a room look wider , long horizontal bands of mirror can be placed at the top and bottom of walls , or vertical floor to ceiling panels can be added to walls at right angles to a window .
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