Example sentences of "to arrive at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to arrive at that moment , he wrote , it is necessary to be patient , it is necessary to hold back , it is often necessary to do nothing . |
| 2 | Impossible to reconcile space suggested by charts and space of room , which is just what I wanted , but for so long did n't know how to arrive at . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Therefore try to arrive at the venue a day early . |
| 5 | After travelling around the continent to a constellation of cities linked by who her father knew , it was a relief to cross the Channel alone and to arrive at a place where it was not generally such a struggle to make herself understood . |
| 6 | If you want to go into the draw , then just complete the form below and send it , with your remittance , to arrive at the editorial offices by 25th August . |
| 7 | A climber jumps in his car , burns precious fossil fuels on a stretch of tarmac that has eaten acres of countryside to arrive at an undeveloped crag . |
| 8 | The object of the reaching exercise is of course to arrive at Stavrogin . |
| 9 | If you are going to subsequently multiply , or frequency shift , the output to arrive at the final transmit frequency , then the optional sine shaper can be omitted — leaving a phase modulator which could scarcely simpler . |
| 10 | Mr Carey said : ‘ We submitted a bid which tried to be clear about the problems , and to arrive at a view of what is practicable , which disturbs MPs as little as possible , while giving the broadcasters what they want . |
| 11 | To claim your goodies , you need to arrive at the box office after 10.00am on the date of the film you want to see , bearing a copy of that day 's Independent . |
| 12 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
| 13 | But when apparatchiks from Central Office , who have us acting as stewards ( ie , usherettes ) are often seen risking life and limb , SAS-style , in order to arrive at a doorway at the same time as a minister does , they are taking a serious risk with morale . |
| 14 | Joseph Olshan 's fascinating third novel , The Waterline , charts the emotional journey which Billy and his parents , Susan and Michael , undertake to arrive at this peaceful coexistence with their past ; each narrates one of the novel 's three sections . |
| 15 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
| 16 | then add together the calculations to arrive at the employee 's contribution . |
| 17 | In order to arrive at its findings , the European Commission does what no court in this country can do , namely sit in judgment upon the policy and justification of an Act of Parliament . |
| 18 | The former is mainly concerned with the achievement of goals , not overly concerned about opposition and the costs of disturbance ; the latter is more concerned to represent and respond to diverse interests and is willing to arrive at compromises , if necessary sacrificing policy goals . |
| 19 | ‘ This train is due to arrive at Tunbridge Wells sometime later today , ’ he crackled over the tannoy . |
| 20 | Just as you can not add up all the prices in a shop to arrive at what it would cost to buy the shop , nor can you add up the price of all a company 's shares to arrive at what the company is worth . |
| 21 | Just as you can not add up all the prices in a shop to arrive at what it would cost to buy the shop , nor can you add up the price of all a company 's shares to arrive at what the company is worth . |
| 22 | Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by . |
| 23 | His next film is a ‘ character mystery ’ — not a musical — about Weegee , the famous news photographer of the Depression years , named for his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime with a speed which suggested the use of an ouija board . |
| 24 | Mr Miller said security around all Northwest 's flights had been increased but there was no intention of cancelling Flight 51 , a DC-1O due to arrive at Roissy airport from Detroit at 6.40am today . |
| 25 | The point you want to arrive at , is getting what you want at the price you can afford . |
| 26 | If , for lack of a formula , British ministries ( and no doubt ministries elsewhere ) are unable to price the amenity value of landscapes threatened by development , how on earth would any government — or , more probably a conference of governments — be able to arrive at a system for pricing the air ? |
| 27 | The government has allowed food to arrive at the port of Assab , which it controls , and to be moved into the rebel-held province of Tigre . |
| 28 | Gassendi has argued that , despite what the sceptics say , it is possible , by inferring back , to arrive at some truth about hidden things . |
| 29 | Indeed , just as Berkeley 's immaterialism foreshadows the phenomenalist theory of perception developed by the so-called Logical Empiricists of this century , so his view , according to which the aim of science is not to provide explanations of nature 's regularities but only to arrive at concise and useful descriptions of them , foreshadows their instrumentalism . |
| 30 | Denice is never late , so we 've been told , and she 's due to arrive at any moment . |