Example sentences of "[verb] arrive at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , I am entitled to take all these circumstances into account in attempting to arrive at a just decision concerning injunctive relief .
2 Describe the methods which could be used to arrive at an annual forecast of sales .
3 According to Mr Dieter Brauninger , an economist at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt , the newcomers could not have arrived at a better time : a period of dynamic growth , when gaps created by the fall in the birth rate in the past two decades need to be filled .
4 Yet , with Deacon Blue getting the high score covering Bacharach & David songs , and a lot of new bubblegum little more than MOR , ‘ Sundrive Road ’ could n't have arrived at a better time , when there must be a pay-out for mature bands making no bones about playing pop for its own sake .
5 Yet , with Deacon Blue getting the high score covering Bacharach & David songs , and a lot of new bubblegum little more than MOR , ‘ Sundrive Road ’ could n't have arrived at a better time , when there must be a pay-out for mature bands making no bones about playing pop for its own sake .
6 Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict .
7 Having arrived at a suitable total for local authority expenditure , the next problem is how to express it in a way that allows comparisons to be made either with other contemporary expenditures or with local authority expenditure over time .
8 We can not , therefore , feel surprised that Professor Coleman , beset by so many obstacles in that particular branch of our art , and having arrived at an advanced period of life , could not fling himself into its pursuit ; nor was it reasonable to expect it from him ’ .
9 Even if there were such a description it would be difficult to imagine the number of working years it would take to arrive at a complete frequency description of a novel , let alone " the language as a whole " .
10 In order to avoid what Cantalupo termed a situation of " paralysis " in Spain , Italian diplomacy sought to arrive at a political solution in the Basque Country .
11 For Green , the proposal of the Cambridge Board had major implications at national level and he sought to arrive at a local compromise to prevent a more widespread set of problems for the WEA .
12 Lamenting ‘ the feeling of morbid sympathy with criminals which at the present moment undoubtedly exists ’ , The Times ( 18 November 1856 ) had arrived at a sorry conclusion : ‘ Philanthropy , like crinoline , has become the fashion . ’
13 They had arrived at a first floor landing .
14 Gould found he ‘ had arrived at a good time , the birds having just commenced breeding ’ , and was immediately off to resume his researches with Natty and Jemmy in the cedar brushes of the Liverpool Range and on the nearby stretches of the Dart Brook .
15 For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road .
16 It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK .
17 So general SVQs have arrived at a good time .
18 They have arrived at a similar endpoint , from a very different starting point .
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