Example sentences of "[noun] arrive at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home . |
| 2 | It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world . |
| 3 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 4 | The lads arrive at the local nick to find their Houdini pa has done a bunk and they wander about the country trying to locate him , pitching up in a one horse Long Island seaside town . |
| 5 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 6 | A lady arrives at the front counter with something to be looked at . |
| 7 | EURO DISNEYLAND , a little bit of America in the flat farmlands of Seine-et-Marne to the east of Paris , opened an hour earlier than planned yesterday as thousands of visitors arrived at the Enchanted Kingdom . |
| 8 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 9 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 10 | Kirov arrived at the agreed meeting place as he always did , at the exact specified time . |
| 11 | These movements are preprogrammed " ballistic " responses whose velocities are determined by the anticipated distance of travel , ensuring that the eye arrives at the right place after a fixed period of time . |
| 12 | An official inquiry indicates that her body arrived at the Military Hospital at 16:20 the same day and came from the Military School . |
| 13 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 14 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |
| 15 | Doolan was part of the Gateshead team which clinched promotion to the Conference two seasons ago , but left when Tony Lee arrived at the International Stadium . |
| 16 | Hoping to find important documents , the special ‘ capture group ’ of the Moscow and Russian departments of the ministry of internal affairs arrived at the central committee buildings at 4pm and ordered all workers to quit the buildings without briefcases within an hour , leaving their doors and safes open . |
| 17 | When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP . |
| 18 | Thus the pilots may be found in the Engines Section absorbing the means whereby the aviation spirit and flames arrive at the right place at the right time to produce the urge for forward movement , or they could be watching in some fascination an array of lights and switches on a array known as ‘ electrics ’ which behave themselves so well under the persuasion of the engines instructor , but which flash and fail to respond in such heart-breaking fashion when the student is urged to demonstrate that he has ‘ got ’ it . |
| 19 | The next morning Bathsheba and her maid Liddy were dusting some books , when a visitor arrived at the front door . |
| 20 | But less than a month later , John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger arrived at the Royal Court , and elegant , well-made drawing-room plays like this were supposedly consigned to the dustbin of theatrical history . |
| 21 | Communications arriving at the orderly room were largely turgid documents in ‘ Whitehallese ’ from the War Office . |
| 22 | After passing Cross House and noting its sundial , the road arrives at the sad ruin of Gibb 's Hall , once a handsome building with literary associations ; it was here that Mary Howitt wrote a novel about Dentdale called Hope On , Hope Ever . |
| 23 | Bukharin arrived at the following conclusion : |
| 24 | On the morning of the 28th the Emperor arrived at the tiny railway station accompanied by the Empress and by the 14-year-old Prince Imperial , who , like his father , was wearing military uniform , since he was destined also to go to Metz . |
| 25 | When Ruth and Miss Beard arrived at the rear door of the house , the carriage was already waiting . |
| 26 | A maid arrived at the 23-year-old model 's £500,000 Paris flat expecting to find her . |
| 27 | First , the crossed auditory pathways inhibit the uncrossed pathways such that stimuli presented to the right ear arrive intact at the left hemisphere and stimuli presented to the left ear arrive at the right hemisphere . |
| 28 | Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut . |
| 29 | Alice sought out Mary and they watched appreciatively as the two strong , tall , graceful , beautifully built young men whirled each other about , endured two dog falls — draws — and only after several lengthy spasms of athletic tussling arrived at the deciding fall . |
| 30 | Several hours after their withdrawal , the 11 soldiers and Dr Mardell arrived at the Serbian town of Banja Koviljaca . |