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

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1 When the patterns of magnetic anomalies across mid-oceanic ridges were mapped out it was noticed that in several cases the parallel bands of similarly magnetized crust were broken by numerous offsets or displacements which seemed to be aligned approximately at right angles to the axis of the ridge .
2 The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles .
3 He turned randomly at right angles , and set off at a lolloping run .
4 Another road leads away at right angles to it , in front of the temple gate , and ascends the hillside .
5 They were doing a sort of Nordic cha cha cha with Dutch doll movements , hands and feet turned out at right angles and clockwork jerks of the head .
6 On our sail he pressure difference causes a driving force which acts roughly at right angles to the sail at its centre of effort .
7 The ends of the rivets were bent over at right angles on the back of the shield making it possible to calculate that the wooden boards of the complete circular shields were 0.5 to 1.5 cm thick .
8 To do this , apply some wood glue to the faces to be joined and , using the mitre clamp to hold the two pieces of moulding exactly at right angles , drill guide holes in the corner of the mitre and hammer home some pins to secure the joint while the glue sets .
9 The other main rift type is to be found orientated approximately at right angles to the strike of intercontinental collision orogens .
10 Mariana hatched the drop to the river to their right and dragged a furrow through it round the side of the meadow and on up the mountain with a branch cutting off at right angles to run along the top of the quarry .
11 Fold over at right angles to form a triangle .
12 The second guy did n't even hit half that distance and the third took a couple of swings to send his ball skewing off at right angles .
13 One main street , set roughly at right angles , ran north and south from it ; its northern arm , possibly Flavian in date , aimed at the southern end of the modern High Street where the south gate of the fortified centre was probably later established ; a slight shift towards the west in its alignment in the late second century may have coincided with the construction of the first defences .
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