Example sentences of "[noun sg] arrive at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More generally one can say that for attitudinism ethical statements invite the hearer ( or perhaps the speaker when in discourse with himself ) to express his agreement or disagreement in attitude , or perhaps join in a shared attempt to arrive at some stable and better based attitude , towards what is in question , and that this is quite a different matter from any discussion concerning the psychological state , of approving or disapproving , on either the speaker 's or hearer 's part . |
| 2 | Somehow the afternoon arrived at half past three . |
| 3 | When he has shot and eaten his final prisoner , he begins to worry what he will do for food ; but fortunately a seaplane arrives at this point and rescues him . |
| 4 | The Cleveland Inquiry ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) noted that : ‘ It has been impossible from the evidence provided to the Inquiry to arrive at any consensus or to obtain any reliable figures of the general prevalence of sexual abuse of children in the country or in Clevelend ’ ( p.4 ) and later comments that : ‘ We are strongly of the opinion that great caution should be exercised at the present time in accepting percentages as to the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse . |
| 5 | The failure to arrive at any detailed results is a reflection of the complexity of the issues involved rather than of the failure of the protagonists of the human capital theory to recognise the problem . |
| 6 | This gives you a chance to arrive at some horrible , eye-torturing combinations , like plaid for the font and stripes for the background . |
| 7 | Johansson arrives at this positive conclusion by using a new kind of energy analysis , which compares the costs and benefits , both economic and environmental , of the ways a society can meet its energy needs . |
| 8 | It is not necessary for readers to agree completely with the ideology of the approach to arrive at some of the same conclusions about soil erosion as found here . |
| 9 | Being extremely fond of naming things , especially after themselves , the sixty-man senate arrived at this particular figure without much in the way of heated debate . |
| 10 | The best way to arrive at that intelligence is through research . |
| 11 | It hardly needs emphasizing that on any question that is interesting , such as social roles of the sexes , we would have to be able to read the historical record better than we now can in order to arrive at any strong conclusions about what is biologically discouraged . |
| 12 | With a lot at stake for both sides the game began at a frantic pace with a goal arriving at each end in the first ten minutes . |
| 13 | This small breathing space had given her time to arrive at several important decisions . |