Example sentences of "[vb pp] to arrive at " in BNC.

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1 Money spent on goods and services is sometimes the only expenditure included , on other occasions interest charges and transfer payments to companies and individuals are added to arrive at total current expenditure .
2 Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price .
3 Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price .
4 ETA Ardneavie 2200/22/6 , her travel instructions stated precisely — which really meant that Wren Violet T. McKeown was expected to arrive at her destination by 10 P.M. on the twenty-second day of June .
5 PRINCE William and Prince Harry are expected to arrive at Sandringham this weekend , exchanging the media glare of their Austrian skiing holiday for the relative seclusion of the Norfolk countryside .
6 At 1200 hrs on 23 May , 1st Guards Brigade put out a warning order that the Army commander was expected to arrive at the battalion HQ of 3rd Grenadier Guards at 1130 hrs the following morning , where he " wishes to see the Brigade commander and COs " .
7 The projects will include experiments with : ( i ) buses powered by alternative fuels such as natural gas and rape methyl ester ( RME , derived from rapeseed oil ) ; ( ii ) electronic systems for tracking buses to inform people when a bus is expected to arrive at their stop ; and ( iii ) control systems for traffic lights to ease congestion by allowing buses priority .
8 This weekend hundreds are expected to arrive at the home of the Earls of Spencer — Althorp park in Northamptonshire .
9 A short time ago Bilal and Samir were expected to arrive at the hospital near Aylesbury .
10 In such a case , some form of conflict resolution must be adopted to arrive at a solution .
11 I felt that no attempt was being made to arrive at an analysis of our situation based on the specificity of our experience as lesbians and gays .
12 Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " .
13 Describe the methods which could be used to arrive at an annual forecast of sales .
14 Failure to use these words can lead to a lot of confusion , and provide opportunities for awkward parties to obstruct a reference by questioning the procedure used to arrive at a result which they expect to be unfavourable .
15 His are primarily paintings , compositions in which he includes other objects with ‘ a universal symbolism that 's not precise — people have got to arrive at their own interpretation , ’ he stresses .
16 Scheduled to arrive at MAAM on August 14 , the aircraft will be maintained in airworthy condition to participate in east coast airshows .
17 A product where the dosage must be finely calculated arithmetically from the instruction data provided to arrive at the quantity of product needed required more thought and more decisions than a product dispensed semi-automatically via a dispenser or one which is supplied ready for use .
18 Over the past 18 months the MCofS have attempted to arrive at the compromise statement on the contentious issue of bolting in Scotland .
19 Soon they were laughing over the melodrama of it ; how quickly he had seemed to arrive at death 's door , and how absurdly soon afterwards he was stuffing his face and bouncing with health .
20 There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly .
21 Cunliffe admitted that his knowledge of Germany was inadequate and that his figure was ‘ little more than a shot in the dark as he had been pressed to arrive at it between a Saturday and a Monday ’ .
22 To accommodate such large numbers , visitors were asked to arrive at different times , all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam .
23 The various outputs may be added at market prices , or the effect of subsidies and taxes on expenditure may be excluded to arrive at GNP at factor cost .
24 The Post Office has chosen to arrive at its net cash flow from operating activities by using the direct method rather than the indirect method .
25 To get round the fact that the CSMA/CD carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection protocol prevents two nodes from transmitting data at the same time , so that video signals could get interrupted , isochronous Ethernet time-stamps the packets so they can be guaranteed to arrive at the recipient 's computer at the same time .
26 Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise .
27 In a non husband and wife situation ( ie where no other reliefs are available ) the mortgage debt assumed will be added to the consideration paid to arrive at the total amount subject to stamp duty .
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