Example sentences of "[adv] arrived at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 2 | ( b ) to be able to appreciate the interlinking of everything and the force of cumulative evidence , and that what is done and learnt in school can not be divorced from what happens outside ; ( c ) to appreciate that religion challenges head-on any view that regards knowledge as something only arrived at by reasoning and scientific experimentation ; ( d ) to be concerned about conviction for or against religion , but to be open to evidence and to experience — not to have the answers all neatly sewn up , but to see life as a journey of exploration with exciting prospects and a sense of fulfilment in actually moving forward and , if necessary , changing in order to accommodate fresh insight . |
| 3 | Leavis 's judgements were very much his own , laboriously arrived at , and presented with subtlety and rigour . |
| 4 | Educational policies are generally arrived at through painstaking research into past and present practices , yet policies which ultimately dictate the future are rarely radical enough to reflect all the detail and ramifications of this research . |
| 5 | A more general definition of resistance valid for varying cross-sections may be easily arrived at , but it is hardly worth the trouble . |
| 6 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 7 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 8 | Other parents do their best to frighten the life out of those who have not arrived at this stage , with doom-laden tales of trouble and strife . |
| 9 | At the same time , for those who have not arrived at , or hold back from such a step of faith , the Kingdom is not yet . |
| 10 | More likely , we may suppose that we have not arrived at an exact specification of one or more of the ten . |
| 11 | They have not arrived at a favourable view of the monarchy because the balance sheet falls in the black . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not surprising that he has not arrived at Osborne House yet . |
| 13 | What would have happened had I not arrived at the door at precisely that juncture , I can not imagine . |
| 14 | The youths , being Moslems , were not having this from any woman , even if she were a great lady , and things would have gone ill for Zeinab if Owen had not arrived at that moment , on his way to her flat . |
| 15 | ‘ But , however it came across , I do n't think I was feeling very hostile — how could I be when , since I knew which hotel you were in , I would probably have been in contact had you not arrived at my home . ’ |
| 16 | He explained that what makes the document confidential is the fact that the creator of the document has used his brain and thus arrived at a result which can only be produced by somebody who goes through the same process . |
| 17 | One had just arrived at ground floor level ; Tom followed two girl clerks into it and pressed the button for the fifteenth floor . |
| 18 | Here , a family group has just arrived at the giraffe 's enclosure on a day out at the zoo ( 1 ) . |
| 19 | A Victor V486MX mini-tower has just arrived at Lyndhurst West for a long-term test . |
| 20 | We 've got everyone here and Dalton 's just arrived at the front desk . |
| 21 | Abe Abramson , who fought blazes during the Blitz of Liverpool , had just arrived at his son-in-law 's shop to help his daughter when the attack happened . |
| 22 | Far greater than any of these , second only to Palestrina himself , was Tomas Luis de Victoria ( c. 1548–1611 ) , who in 1565 came to Rome from Spain where Morales ( see p. 236 ) and his pupil Francisco Guerrero ( c. 1527–1599 ) had already arrived at a perfection of the Netherland style hardly distinguishable from the Roman . |
| 23 | She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment . |
| 24 | ‘ I hope so , ’ he said , in response to the suggestion that , after going through eight clubs in his short career , he had finally arrived at his spiritual home . |
| 25 | Arguments can be posed for mixing or not mixing and examples of excellent practice can be found , but it is vital that whatever conclusions are finally arrived at they come from a true understanding of what day care in any particular instance is trying to achieve for its attenders and their carers . |
| 26 | It was late afternoon when Li Yuan finally arrived at Bremen . |
| 27 | She 'd hardly arrived at her specified destination when a small Arab urchin slid up to her side . |
| 28 | The content of courses varies widely , and is usually arrived at by the demands of the service . |
| 29 | The tension is always arrived at by formula rather than by direct measurement , and since the error applies to the tension of the original strings as well as to modern reproductions , this weakness does not affect the accuracy of reproduction . |
| 30 | ( i ) Without external evidence of date , the period of a mosaic is always arrived at by an extrapolation from the style of other pavements . |