Example sentences of "arrive at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( Peavy , 1984 , arrives at similar conclusions , though his arguments have a different emphasis . )
2 An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track .
3 The program considers every possible move which the laws of the game allow it to make , and arrives at various positions which we may call HisPos .
4 It is possible to see the weather from a long way off , but as the people at Old Slains know , the weather then arrives at such speed over the surface of the North Sea that seeing it approach seems hardly sufficient warning .
5 Bersani arrives at this position because he sees gay male sexuality as enacting insights into sexuality per se which heterosexual culture has to repress ruthlessly ( above , Chapter 17 ) .
6 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 .
7 ‘ One article arrived at 2,000 words long .
8 Bucks Railway Centre staff could fairly be described as confused when Ex-GWR 6024 arrived at 08.55 hrs at Quainton without any coaches on Sunday morning .
9 He did not explain how he arrived at that figure , but it turns out — conveniently — to be £93 less than the £420 student loan that the Government are now making available .
10 When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor .
11 The Steward 's party , having cleared out the domestic quarters , arrived at that side of the keep , driving before them a crowd of servitors and general retainers , women amongst them , many only partially clad .
12 Party managers arrived at that conclusion because that is the way they had treated their own party for the past eight years .
13 And when you arrived at that conclusion , what did you do ?
14 After climbing three sets of stairs you arrived at two doors , with name-plates .
15 A happy working relationship is vital , and Jane and I quickly arrived at joint decisions about the project , choosing the clothes I would wear — light jacket , dark blue shirt and jeans — and deciding against the use of corny props ‘ appropriate ’ to my profession , such as books , a typewriter , or a bottle .
16 The Ministers arrived at first light to find the palace dark and empty , the huge rooms barely lit by a few lamps placed here and there showing the furniture covered in drapes .
17 On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt .
18 As the man with some previous experience of CAA hearings , it was Randolph Fields who arrived at Civil Aviation House in Kingsway , London , on the first day of the hearing to present the case for the newly inaugurated Virgin Atlantic Airways .
19 After leaving the church Dalgliesh went briefly back to the Yard to pick up his files on Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers and it was after midday before he arrived at 62 Campden Hill Square .
20 By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator .
21 Erdogan Kizilkaya claims that when he arrived at Kayseri Police Headquarters he was stripped and taken to an interrogation room where electric shocks were applied to his penis , hands and feet .
22 A more recent summary of profit trends arrived at similar conclusions and also showed that the decline in profitability in the UK was sharper than that in other countries , as Table 5.3 indicates .
23 During the first two weeks about 180 children arrived at Great Engeham .
24 When they arrived at Green Gables , Marilla came to the door to meet them .
25 She remembered the strange , thin little child , with her sad eyes , who arrived at Green Gables five years ago , and she started crying quietly .
26 So as the 48 assorted classic cars arrived at Scotch Corner around 3pm Steve and Graham 's Jaguar XK150 was not among them .
27 In the end we arrived at another plastic wall where there was another door .
28 But they all arrived at different times , because Frith made sure that it would happen so .
29 Kangaroos and horses arrived at different endpoints in " animal space " , probably because of some accidental difference in their starting points .
30 I refer especially to the fact that Mr. Thorpe had access to two general practitioners and thus to two separate decision-making processes , which arrived at different conclusions .
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