Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to arrive at [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The first person to arrive at the scene was a flying instructor who had run 300 metres carrying a fire extinguisher to the scene .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 " .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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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