Example sentences of "arrive at [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems associated with the battle of the forms arise because the common law principles governing the formation of contracts are based on the concept of a bargain arrived at through a process of negotiation , while the whole purpose of standard conditions is to minimise or exclude the process of negotiation . |
| 2 | This agreement , arrived at in a period of relative stability in international air travel , had been thrown into question with the arrival — and more pertinently , the collapse — of Freddie Laker 's cut-price service . |
| 3 | The emphasis placed on current practice could be described as self-sufficiency ; an ability to make and act upon decisions arrived at from a position of sound professional judgement , decisions arrived at independently of doctors but complementary to their assessment of patients . |
| 4 | By counting the actual number of critical steps or decisions involved in the makeup and use of a product an objective figure can be arrived at as a measure of convenience . |
| 5 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 6 | Notice also that we can express any class of asset as a proportion of total assets or liabilities and remember too that in section 1.1.5 we said that these ratios are arrived at as a matter of deliberate choice and are assumed to represent portfolio equilibrium . |
| 7 | That is , the " manifest dream 's " apparently irrelevant and unpredictable content was actually deemed to have been systematically arrived at from a " latent dream " , whose implicit content had been the subject of some extensive dreamwork . |
| 8 | Those grades will be arrived at by a complex and outwardly objective system external to the school . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , a diagnosis of psychosomatic illness is often arrived at by a much shorter and less strenuous route than this , particularly with female patients , who tend to be perceived as more ‘ nervy ’ . |
| 10 | For the conclusion that the powers vested in directors are to be exercised exclusively by the directors is arrived at by a careful analysis of the wording of the article giving to the directors of the company general managerial powers which is found in the constitution of most companies . |
| 11 | Early starts and early finishes are arrived at by a forward pass through the network . |
| 12 | Early starts and early finishes are arrived at by a forward pass through the network . |
| 13 | ( i ) Without external evidence of date , the period of a mosaic is always arrived at by an extrapolation from the style of other pavements . |
| 14 | Or , again , a new discovery might be arrived at after a long series of observations and calculations , as exemplified by Kepler 's discoveries of his laws of planetary motion . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding the best efforts of the distinguished panel , the findings were arrived at after a one-sided presentation of evidence and argument . |
| 16 | Mr justifies abandoning the approach in and on the basis that the decision was arrived at in a different housing market , when it was reasonable to conclude that the plaintiff 's loss of interest on the capital employed would be exceeded by the increase in the value of the property . |