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

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1 Aggersborg , the largest , contained forty-eight houses , arranged in blocks of four grouped in threes in each of the quadrants formed by two internal roads intersecting at right angles .
2 Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar .
3 Maximum linear discord is achieved when lines cross at right angles .
4 Although the fibrils are arranged radially , the molecular chains lie at right angles to the fibril axis .
5 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 .
6 But when being prepared in the laboratory , cavities were found in the bones with tiny corrugated bone formations running at right angles .
7 A conventional joystick uses a pair of potentiometers mounted at right angles to each other , the spindles being mechanically linked to a central knob .
8 Pin on the seamline , 1.5cm ( ⅝in ) in from the raw edges , with pins placed at right angles to the seam .
9 Between the street on the right and the canal , other streets run at right angles .
10 The front door is often covered with a massive porch , sheltering a pair of much-used benches built at right angles to the house .
11 It is a wheel of vanes set at right angles to the sails , so that if the wind is not striking the sails , it must strike the fantail and turn the sails into the wind again .
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