Example sentences of "arrive at the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything going into the hole dust clouds , light beams , stars , spacecraft , you anything crossing the boundary sphere marking the edge of the hole — it gets crushed out of existence when it arrives at the central point of the hole . ’ |
| 2 | After passing Cross House and noting its sundial , the road arrives at the sad ruin of Gibb 's Hall , once a handsome building with literary associations ; it was here that Mary Howitt wrote a novel about Dentdale called Hope On , Hope Ever . |
| 3 | As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project . |
| 4 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
| 5 | When Ruth and Miss Beard arrived at the rear door of the house , the carriage was already waiting . |
| 6 | By a different route , he arrived at the same conclusion of ‘ proportionality ’ as retribution required . |
| 7 | We are now , reader , arrived at the last stage of our journey . |
| 8 | Several hours after their withdrawal , the 11 soldiers and Dr Mardell arrived at the Serbian town of Banja Koviljaca . |
| 9 | We finished just before we arrived at the main gate of the chateau . |
| 10 | The two of them arrived at the broken gate of a house even more rackety than its peeling neighbours . |
| 11 | A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action . |
| 12 | On writing about his perfect country house , Baillie Scott is adamantly opposed to the vulgar and proposes what he considers to be the simple open plan way of life : ‘ Having arrived at the central idea of a hall or living room as the keynote of a home it follows naturally that one must group round this the various other rooms … first the ‘ ladies ’ bower'' , the ‘ ‘ drawing-room' ’ as we now call it . |
| 13 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 14 | I 've tried to learn from readers ' comments and , hopefully , have now arrived at the ideal blend of appetite satisfaction combined with gastronomic appeal . |
| 15 | Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time . |
| 16 | One can not , he says , arrive at the normative concept of a rule from the factual elements of commands and habits of obedience . |
| 17 | Thus we arrive at the second version of the logogen model , as described by Morton ( 1978 ) ; it is depicted in Figure 9 . |
| 18 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
| 19 | We arrive at the vexed question of ‘ issue ’ , which is something quite different from impression . |
| 20 | Obviously , one can not add the two figures of 0.67 per cent and 0.58 per cent to arrive at the total contribution of education , since there is an overlap between the two , i.e. advances in knowledge must have affected advances in the education of the labour force and vice versa . |
| 21 | To arrive at the average length of an English sentence , one should ideally amass a complete corpus of the language at a given period . |
| 22 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |
| 23 | To arrive at the overall meaning of 4 , blackbird must be taken as a minimal semantic constituent . |
| 24 | Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks . |
| 25 | The last attempt undertaken by the DHSS concluded as much and observed that the judgement of the ward sister was fundamental in arriving at the appropriate mix of staffing ( 1 ) . |
| 26 | In arriving at the correct mix of full-time to part-time staff the objective should be to determine the best fit between the staff required and the staff available . |
| 27 | There was also a straight and direct access route by way of a corridor in the middle of the West Wing , whereas at Knossos there was a long and circuitous route by way of the Procession Corridor , which doubles back on itself before arriving at the southern end of the Central Court ; the Phaistos entrance seems closer in spirit to the more direct west-east access corridor of the Knossos First Temple . |
| 28 | The exercise described in the preceding paragraphs provides a basis for arriving at the funded establishment of nurses for each unit which will enable the recruitment and employment of the labour force . |
| 29 | For three weeks we were delayed in Cape Town , with hardly a passenger boat being able to sail , although one or two boats managed to sneak away but with fear of being black/egged on arriving at the next port of call . |