Example sentences of "arrive at a " in BNC.

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1 On the far bank , where a tributary of the Swale forms the waterfall of East Gill Force , a short climb arrives at a lane and here the two routes part company , never again to meet : Pennine Wayfarers turn left for Tan Hill , and Coast to Coasters turn right across a bridge to follow the lane eastwards high above the gorge of the Swale to reach Crackpot Hall .
2 bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct .
3 Caterham tends to compete , he says , with the ‘ hot hatches ’ such as the Golf GTI , a huge surprise considering that a Golf has four comfortable seats and can carry a respectable amount of luggage while the Seven arrives at a buyer 's door in several cardboard boxes , has two seats , no doors or luggage space to speak of and , in the words of one reviewer , ‘ is likely to blow your teeth out at much over 80 mph ’ .
4 It arrives at a different time from the rest of the mail .
5 The road gradually descends into kinder surroundings , the sight of trees being welcome after the barren crossing from Gruinard , and arrives at a car park as large as a football field , usually well patronised by cars and coaches and obviously indicating the presence of a major attraction .
6 The road out of Shiel Bridge runs along the south side of Loch Duich and soon arrives at a junction where a no-through-branch turns off to serve the scattered habitations along the shore , ending at Totaig and the forlorn slipway of the abandoned ferry to Dornie .
7 We , the organisers , put up ideas to the executive committee which arrives at a consensus , then we discuss possible titles that are appropriate and short enough to capture the necessary publicity .
8 It eventually arrives at a short recapitulation of the initial music which , in its turn , breaks into a closing ‘ burst ’ of music which does sound like late eighteenth-century wind music , but which is actually a stylistic pastiche .
9 The reader then attaches ‘ with ’ syntactically to ‘ lived ’ rather than to ‘ house ’ , and using few graphic cues arrives at a person with whom Paul might reasonably live .
10 So a Gettier counter-example is one in which a has a justified but false belief by inference from which he justifiably believes something which happens to be true , and so arrives at a justified true belief which is not knowledge .
11 Drawing on such work , Becher arrives at a four-part typology of hard/pure , hard/applied , soft/pure and soft/applied .
12 The essay by Carrier and Kendall ( see n. 2 ) explores that debate , and arrives at a more positive stance on the distinctive character of the subject as an academic discipline than that suggested here .
13 ’ Halsey arrives at a similar finding , after rejecting the view that women 's work may have moderated the ‘ class-ridden ’ nature of British society :
14 He recognizes that there is a real divergence of expert opinion between those who believe that men are happy because they are miserable , and those who believe that men are miserable because they are happy ; and wisely arrives at a synthesis of both views .
15 The Home Office Code under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 [ PACE ] requires that as soon as a suspect arrives at a police station , they should be told by the custody officer of their right to independent , free legal advice .
16 The argument is that he had power to enjoy so much of the income of Attleborough [ the overseas company ] as was spent in expenses , etc , so that by this route one arrives at a taxable amount of net income .
17 Applying the multiplier of eighteen to that figure , one arrives at a figure of fifty eight thousand one hundred and sixty two pounds and fifty pence which when the additional costs are added in comes to the total of fifty nine thousand and forty three pence , I 'm sorry , fifty nine thousand forty three pounds and seventy five pence which is the figure I would award under this heading .
18 It 's based on the short story by Henry James ; a young Governness arrives at a remote country house to look after 2 young children who turn out to be possessed by the ghosts of two dead servants .
19 Alain Prost arrives at a Paris hotel for yesterday 's hearing
20 However it is difficult to understand how the government arrives at a post-trial solution to a pre-trial problem ; unless it is their intention to lock youngsters up for three years in the new approved schools without trial .
21 She never arrives at a class with a set plan .
22 A MAN accused of killing Marie Wilks arrived at a friend 's house with a thick smudge of blood on his car the day after she disappeared , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday .
23 By way of Nero and his brief successor Galba ( who happened to be 73 , which is Mr Healey 's present age ) , we arrived at a picture , on page 483 , of Mr Healey dressed as Father Christmas , which I suggested was deeply melancholy .
24 Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community .
25 We finally arrived at a figure of two hundred and fifty pounds and he was perfectly agreeable . ’
26 In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then .
27 He arrived at a decision , threw the cigarette away , and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages .
28 Mr Souness , who arrived at a Manchester hospital offering the comment : ‘ I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to it but it is essential so it has to be done , ’ broke the news to his players on the way back from Sunday 's semi-final which Liverpool rescued late in extra time through Ronnie Whelan .
29 They followed the stretcher until they arrived at a large tent which had a hastily painted sign slung across its front .
30 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 .
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