Example sentences of "arrive at the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A short mile further on , the road passes over the stream , Ais Gill , issuing from the impressive limestone confines of White Kirk , hidden by the railway viaduct and unseen and unsuspected from the road which continues uneventfully down the valley and arrives at the compact little community of Outhgill .
2 He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day .
3 As the party arrived at the small front door of the house , some puffing from the climb , Samuel held up his hand impressively .
4 It then crossed the Indian Ocean and rounded Australia and arrived at the small purpose-built port of Tokai northeast of Tokyo in early January .
5 Like everyone else on holiday , he thought he had ‘ got away from it all ’ for a few days until he arrived at the famous White Horse Inn and was confronted by … fellow Fellow ( ! )
6 We had received the full blast of his whimsicality the minute we arrived at the ancient wood-frame rectory , modernised in 1812 ( according to the brochure ) by the great-grandson of Sir Christopher Wren .
7 Newton first arrived at the inverse square law of attraction by considering the elliptical motion of a point planet around a stationary point sun .
8 I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service .
9 Some weeks later , a letter arrived at the little white house on the hill .
10 A similar transformation of the submatrix then gives unc so that , so far as unc is concerned , we have arrived at the conventional canonical form .
11 It was thus a new phenomenon when , during the winter and early spring of 1976 , outspoken resolutions on law and order began to arrive at the Presbyterian central office in Belfast from congregations and presbyteries across the country .
12 A calculation of the profit and loss account balance brought forward might then be performed and added to the retained profit to arrive at the carried forward balance .
13 The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device .
14 A space of 10cm ( 4in ) to 12cm ( 4 ¾in ) between the pleats gives an attractive arrangement , but this is variable in order to arrive at the desired finished width of curtain .
15 If , on the other hand , one focuses on the production that is undertaken by the residents of that country , the income earned by nationals from abroad has to be added to the gross domestic product , to arrive at the gross national product .
16 If judges carry out their duty of assessing damages for non-economic loss in the money of the day at the date of the trial — and this is a rule of practice that judges are required to follow , not a guideline from which they have a discretion to depart if there are special circumstances that justify their doing so — there are two routes by which the judge 's task of arriving at the appropriate conventional rate of interest to be applied to the damages so assessed can be approached .
17 The whole service is designed to save you both time and money in arriving at the correct long term decision .
18 When life-expectancy figures are calculated , everyone who has been born and died is taken into account in arriving at the average life-expectancy figures .
19 Far from receiving a discount the purchaser arriving at the average high street store which a bunch of fivers in most cases pays more for his new washing machine or bicycle because the retailer has factored into the pricing structure the credit card company 's fee ( which can range from one to four per cent ) .
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