Example sentences of "arrived at a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By the early 1970s the CNAA had established and reviewed policies ; framed a pattern of degrees and made the revisions which resulted , for example , in the adoption of the degree and degree with honours , branching from a common foundation , to replace the essentially two-track ordinary and honours structure ; and arrived at a broad and growing diversity of subject areas to validate , with a potential to make a major contribution in additional areas .
2 We stayed for three days , and then we took the night boat to Belgium , and arrived at a tall , fine school building in the centre of Brussels .
3 We arrived at a Roman Catholic church where kind ladies gave us food and blankets , and soon we were all cosily asleep on the hard church floor .
4 With a new rabbit and a short-haired piebald guinea pig in a box , Victoria arrived at a once-grand Queen Anne house in Wiltshire that was now a school devoted to raising the daughters of the gentry .
5 In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt .
6 The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor .
7 Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it .
8 Eventually , we arrived at a small , damp valley , peat and heather-filled , where insects hummed in the still air .
9 They arrived at a huge dome .
10 Lord Edmund-Davies similarly arrived at a narrower conclusion than Lord Diplock .
11 In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town .
12 If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical .
13 They followed the stretcher until they arrived at a large tent which had a hastily painted sign slung across its front .
14 Negotiations in Renville arrived at a precarious agreement , signed on 17 January 1948 , by which the Van Mook Line was accepted , in return for virtually nothing .
15 The couple arrived at a military base outside Seoul for the start of their four-day tour in the ‘ land of the morning calm ’ .
16 We arrived at an other dam around noon ; water was rushing over the huge rocks and it was too risky to try to paddle across so the canoes were lined across .
17 Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river .
18 Eventually they arrived at an enormous kitchen .
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