Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to arrive [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis .
2 Mrs Wilson was particularly glad that the maid , Elsie , chose this moment to arrive with the tea tray .
3 The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line .
4 Weaver 's body was photographed , and taken away in the second ambulance to arrive on the scene .
5 It was the perfect moment to arrive in the city where I was to spend the next year .
6 Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut .
7 I 'd have told him all about the breastfeeding and bonding if the Morrisons had n't chosen that moment to arrive on the doorstep with Christopher and Katy who 'd been to Bertelli 's for their weekly dose of colourings , preservatives and sugar .
8 Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 It meant , through IT , that quickly improved drafts could provide alternative ways to arrive at a near-excellent final version of what was being said .
13 The initial attempts to arrive at a theoretical representation of the dimensions of a linear chain , treated the molecule as a number n of chain elements , joined by bonds of length l .
14 The fifth yacht to arrive in the space of eight hours , Rhone Poulenc , carried a crewman who 'd spoken to his family in Gloucester only once on the whole trip .
15 The first part to arrive in the West End Farm workshop was a 20-year-old back-end from an International 806 tractor .
16 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 .
17 Tala-Tala , he explained , five miles up the road , had the first church on Koraloona because it was built by the first missionaries to arrive on the island .
18 The first person to arrive at the scene was a flying instructor who had run 300 metres carrying a fire extinguisher to the scene .
19 Members of the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service , staff voluntarily by GPs , are usually the first doctors to arrive at the scene of car accidents where they can give specialist emergency treatment , additional to that provided by ambulance staff .
20 Every day St John taught one Bible lesson at the school , and Miss Oliver , who knew her power over him , always chose that particular moment to arrive at the school door , in her most attractive riding dress .
21 Dishwater fluids are probably the biggest containers to arrive in the kitchen .
22 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 " .
23 This is particularly important since it locates a mode of production as an essential totality , and is thus not dependent upon this or that outstanding feature to arrive at a determination .
24 The aircraft was the first salvaged from the Soviet Union to arrive in the UK .
25 The articles of association say that the value will be fixed by the company 's auditors acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and there is no other way to arrive at the figure which follows the requirements of the constitution of the company .
26 Richard Rolle 's at times flamboyant attempt to arrive at a form of living which would express his compulsive and impulsive drive towards personal realisation of the love of God , brought the circumstances of his life into prominence .
27 I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post .
28 However , this ad hoc procedure has not been without its critics , largely because of doubts about whether it is possible to perform the exercise with sufficient precision to arrive at a clear-cut evaluation .
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