Example sentences of "lie at right angles " in BNC.

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1 Birchall ( like Rolf Biland 's passenger Kurt Waltisperg ) keeps both feet in all the time , and lies at right angles across the back of the bike .
2 The tube lines do not , of course , lie at right angles to one another like the streets of Manhattan .
3 Although the fibrils are arranged radially , the molecular chains lie at right angles to the fibril axis .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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