Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of naturally occurring sugars in milk , honey and fruit resulted in cavities occurring at different positions to those in modern teeth ( Moore and Corbett 1971 ) . |
| 2 | Similar modifications were included at Greek request to passages on the right to conscientious objection . |
| 3 | To examine the effects of PSL , SASP , and 5-ASA on ADCC activity as well as on natural and lymphokine activated killer activity , those drugs were added at various concentrations to the cultures in all three kinds of assays already described . |
| 4 | BRITAIN 'S oil ‘ minnows ’ , many of them companies whose shares are trading at big discounts to their asset values , are hoping to grow by acquisition before they are swallowed by much bigger predators , writes George Duthie . |
| 5 | The book also examines the relationship of individual artists such as Manet , Monet and Degas as well as more ‘ traditional ’ names and the Salon , and looks at critical reception to individual works . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Trophies will be presented at Annual Conference to the winning branch runners-up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The road ran straight ahead , the telegraph poles passing at regular intervals to the right . . |
| 11 | Finally , subscribers will be relieved to know that this work is done at minimal cost to the Bar — all the work is done pro bono by individual members of the Bar in their own time . |
| 12 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 13 | The lines joining these centres represent the directions of greatest tensile stress in the lava flow as it cools , and the hexagonal joint patterns are generated by cracks forming at right angles to these maximum stress lines . |
| 14 | I have written at great length to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | Briggs felt he had a mission to bring this approach to the notice of his AI colleagues , who. he said , were ‘ either above looking at ancient approaches to the same problem , or … simply ignorant that such work has gone on ’ . |
| 16 | The front door is often covered with a massive porch , sheltering a pair of much-used benches built at right angles to the house . |
| 17 | A high frequency signal is fed into the two layers , the signals are normally either opposite in phase or connected at right angles to each other . |
| 18 | This abolishes the component of tension acting at right angles to the cut , while the tangential tension remains , suppressing lamellipodia and provoking formation of an actin cable , which in turn presumably reinforces the tangential tension . |
| 19 | It has two vertical rows of three teeth and these are positioned at right angles to the shank , to give maximum leverage in use . |
| 20 | There are ways of saving money without missing out and in this issue we look at sparkling alternatives to champagne which will add the fizz to the proceedings without breaking the bank . |
| 21 | The tube lines do not , of course , lie at right angles to one another like the streets of Manhattan . |
| 22 | Although the fibrils are arranged radially , the molecular chains lie at right angles to the fibril axis . |
| 23 | Over the past two years , I have noticed the increasing sale of Painted Indian Glassfish , Painted Glassfish and Painted Angelfish , all sold at high prices to unsuspecting fishkeepers who know no better . |
| 24 | On the extreme eastern boundary of the parish , however , where the church and vicarage were rather oddly placed , a number of small terrace houses had been bought up by speculative builders , gutted , modernised , and sold at high prices to people who wanted small houses that were almost in town but could not afford the more fashionable districts of Islington , St John 's Wood or Hampstead . |
| 25 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
| 26 | At its eastern end two second-century buildings were identified , that to the south ( Building 2a ) lying at right angles to the frontage and apparently comprising a suite of rooms c. 7.5 by 3.5 m ( 24½ by 11½ ft ) , on Hamstone foundations . |
| 27 | Two massive walls were recorded in 1891 lying at right angles to the line of the town wall under the modern street , but no proof of their Roman origin was obtained . |
| 28 | Actually , it is very effective as a screwdriver , as it is used at right angles to the screw , and therefore provided great leverage . |
| 29 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |
| 30 | Since Germany lacks the capacity to recycle all waste covered by the laws , much is exported at subsidised rates to recycling plants in other European countries . |