Example sentences of "arrive at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She arrives at rehearsals one morning after three hours in the chair , exhausted by insomnia and with a series of panicky questions for me about her part . |
| 2 | The satellite age arrives at auctions |
| 3 | The descent to the south passes the relics of an abandoned lead mine and arrives at Clouds Gill to join the old mine road which goes down past the limekilns to The Street and the waiting car . |
| 4 | I can assure readers that particular problem will not happen again , all parties involved will be contacted throughout the distribution process until it arrives at members ' addresses . |
| 5 | In addition , courts had been inconsistent and arrived at verdicts which were in conflict with the law . |
| 6 | The rest of the Battalion arrived at intervals including some of the missing men of A company who had not been seen since Waterloo . |
| 7 | In the event of a fire , a maroon would be set off and their turn out was of such a high standard that they arrived at fires out of the district before the local brigades in whose area the fire was . |
| 8 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 9 | They admired him and himself , when he first arrived at Rangers , looking as dangerous and threatening as a man just out of casualty . |
| 10 | He can regard his task as done when he has arrived at entities so simple that they can safely be handed over to physicists . |
| 11 | Separately Caci said it has arrived at agreements to settle shareholder lawsuits pending in Delaware Chancery Court and in the District of Columbia . |
| 12 | How do people arrive at conclusions about what is going on in a particular instance ? |
| 13 | The two-day conference was organised in an attempt to inform the current public debate and arrive at conclusions about the best way forward . |
| 14 | The courts however take a commonsense view , rather than a philosophical view , and arrive at apportionments other than 50/50 . |
| 15 | ‘ Yet you expect me to conduct the case and arrive at decisions , even order an arrest , while sitting at a desk . ’ |
| 16 | The stage-by-stage process of strategic planning , illustrated in Figure 2.2 , demands a series of meetings to assemble and discuss the relevant information , formulate opinions and arrive at decisions . |
| 17 | Others arrive at verdicts much more quickly . |
| 18 | A very similar sort of enterprise has been engaged in by philosophers interested in the notion of speech act ( addressed in Chapter 5 ) : either by examining a special set of verbs called performative verbs , or by more abstract conceptual analysis , they arrive at classifications of the basic purposes for which language can be used ( see e.g. Searle , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | It no longer seems as obvious as it used to that I can detach myself from my interactions with other things , observe them objectively , and arrive at facts about them wholly independent of my own reactions and decisions . |
| 20 | THE CHILDREN ARRIVE AT CUSTOMS IN ENGLAND PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY |
| 21 | It will be seen that I have to arrive at figures in respect of damages in this case under a number of heads . |
| 22 | Instead their ill-paid labour means that the beans can be air-freighted at considerable cost to arrive at supermarkets with flavour and crispness intact . |
| 23 | The problems that juries were liable to arrive at verdicts that were less than helpful and that witnesses and jurors were vulnerable to intimidation were met by the abolition of juries in the criminal courts and the introduction of unorthodox expedients to enable witnesses to remain anonymous . |
| 24 | What they are trying to do is to arrive at insights which are generally true of all humanity ( including the anthropologists themselves ) by observing very small-scale examples of human life . |
| 25 | The object of the decision is to arrive at responses which enable individuals to cope more adequately with their situation . |
| 26 | The difficulty with a single-tier system is to arrive at areas large enough to obtain the benefits of unifying the provision of services requiring an extensive area for their efficient operation , yet small enough to form a have for local democratic involvement . |
| 27 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
| 28 | The former is mainly concerned with the achievement of goals , not overly concerned about opposition and the costs of disturbance ; the latter is more concerned to represent and respond to diverse interests and is willing to arrive at compromises , if necessary sacrificing policy goals . |
| 29 | Workers and employers , motivated by the self-interest of neoclassical theory , endeavour to arrive at trades which would , if they became effective , clear the labour market . |
| 30 | She ‘ just misses ’ trains , turns up hours late for dates , makes sure we 're the last to arrive at parties , dawdles getting ready to go out , then tears around hysterically , taking her irritation with herself out on me . |