Example sentences of "arrive at a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawing on such work , Becher arrives at a four-part typology of hard/pure , hard/applied , soft/pure and soft/applied . |
| 2 | The argument is that he had power to enjoy so much of the income of Attleborough [ the overseas company ] as was spent in expenses , etc , so that by this route one arrives at a taxable amount of net income . |
| 3 | However it is difficult to understand how the government arrives at a post-trial solution to a pre-trial problem ; unless it is their intention to lock youngsters up for three years in the new approved schools without trial . |
| 4 | It arrives at a different time from the rest of the mail . |
| 5 | It eventually arrives at a short recapitulation of the initial music which , in its turn , breaks into a closing ‘ burst ’ of music which does sound like late eighteenth-century wind music , but which is actually a stylistic pastiche . |
| 6 | In contract Mr does not count hours , but arrives at an overall figure of seven thousand five hundred pounds . |
| 7 | In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt . |
| 8 | Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it . |
| 9 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 10 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 11 | The couple arrived at a military base outside Seoul for the start of their four-day tour in the ‘ land of the morning calm ’ . |
| 12 | We arrived at an other dam around noon ; water was rushing over the huge rocks and it was too risky to try to paddle across so the canoes were lined across . |
| 13 | They have not arrived at a favourable view of the monarchy because the balance sheet falls in the black . |
| 14 | Having arrived at a suitable total for local authority expenditure , the next problem is how to express it in a way that allows comparisons to be made either with other contemporary expenditures or with local authority expenditure over time . |
| 15 | We can not , therefore , feel surprised that Professor Coleman , beset by so many obstacles in that particular branch of our art , and having arrived at an advanced period of life , could not fling himself into its pursuit ; nor was it reasonable to expect it from him ’ . |
| 16 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 17 | More likely , we may suppose that we have not arrived at an exact specification of one or more of the ten . |
| 18 | To approach it informally , suppose that we spend time and arrive at a thorough understanding of the ordinary operation of this Citroen 's windscreen wipers . |
| 19 | I accept Mr submissions on Autee that arrive at a different figure from him . |
| 20 | Following the path , continue down to the charming sunken alpinum of 1800 and arrive at a further part of the Hunger Wall . |
| 21 | arrive at an accurate description of the actual use , |
| 22 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 23 | The Security Council , meanwhile , gave its 14,000 peacekeepers in Croatia the right to use force if necessary to defend themselves and extended their mandate until 31 March so international mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen would have time to arrive at a political settlement by then . |
| 24 | In order to avoid what Cantalupo termed a situation of " paralysis " in Spain , Italian diplomacy sought to arrive at a political solution in the Basque Country . |
| 25 | The ANC foreign affairs director , Thabo Mbeki , said that rival groups " must enjoy equal weight in the debate " and that " national consensus … is a critical element in the common effort to arrive at a new reality of justice and peace " . |
| 26 | It is possible to arrive at a probable date for the birth of Jesus . |
| 27 | If the customer base is broadly the same as for existing products , then the credit manager should be able to arrive at a reasonable assessment of these factors . |
| 28 | It is clearly imperative to arrive at a correct diagnosis of the origins of involuntary unemployment . |
| 29 | There was a short silence now in which anyone with good enough hearing to detect a pin-drop would have detected the sound of hundreds of little grey cells jostling and barging each other in frantic efforts to arrive at a perfect understanding of the day 's events . |
| 30 | Such patterns may be the result of Sisyphean fitness and not represent irreversible tendencies to speciation , i.e. the formation of ‘ populations ’ of plant genotypes , representing the best available to arrive at a particular point under the prevailing biotic and physical features at any one particular time . |