Example sentences of "[noun sg] to arrive at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By arriving early in the evening I can fish both periods , and it would be time-consuming and much more tiring to get out of bed in the middle of the night to arrive at the water before first light and to stay until 1.30 the following morning . |
| 4 | The first person to arrive at the scene was a flying instructor who had run 300 metres carrying a fire extinguisher to the scene . |
| 5 | The area can be reached from a junction on the Mallaig road at Loch Ailort on a delightful coastal journey with glorious views seawards and lovely sandy beaches , then crossing the Moidart peninsula to arrive at the village of Acharacle . |
| 6 | As a result , I had to make an expensive taxi journey to arrive at the meeting on time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Ethiopian government reportedly agreed in January 1991 to allow food to arrive at the port of Assab and to be transported into the rebel-held province of Tigray . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We might also note that , in order to arrive at the implicature , we have to know certain.facts about the world , that garages sell petrol , and that round the corner is not a great distance away . |
| 12 | ‘ one who helps another to recognize and to follow the inspirations of grace in his life , in order to arrive at the end to which God is leading him ’ . |
| 13 | In order to arrive at the truth behind the idyll , I must return to the matter of attributions . |
| 14 | Likewise in ( 84 ) one can not hear a tune " come " from somewhere ( cf. the strangeness of * I heard the tune come from the top of the hill ) : its source of emission can only be identified by a process of deduction which interprets what is directly observed in order to arrive at the conclusion that the sound is coming from such-and-such a point . |
| 15 | Our children , 9 , and , 10 , are still asleep , but I take a cup to my wife before leaving home in time to arrive at the Grain Terminal before 7.00 am . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now is not the time to arrive at the friary . |
| 18 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |