Example sentences of "[noun pl] arrive at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Clutching the hot loaf to her chest she fled , expecting every minute to hear shouts of : ‘ Thief … thief … ’ as she threaded between the wharves arriving at a narrow lane not far from Marsh Street where the press gangs roamed .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 This may be an explicit allowance for imputed interest as a deduction from revenues in periodic income calculations to arrive at a residual income figure , or there may be no deduction for required equity yields in the income calculations at all .
8 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 .
9 When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP .
10 There was a short silence now in which anyone with good enough hearing to detect a pin-drop would have detected the sound of hundreds of little grey cells jostling and barging each other in frantic efforts to arrive at a perfect understanding of the day 's events .
11 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 .
12 After twenty minutes , three trains arrived at the same time .
13 Critically discuss the apparent inability of academics to arrive at a universal set of determinant factors for the APT .
14 Communications arriving at the orderly room were largely turgid documents in ‘ Whitehallese ’ from the War Office .
15 RUSSIA teetered on the brink of anarchy last night as President Boris Yeltsin virtually declared war on a conservative legislature that had bluntly rejected his attempts to arrive at a power-sharing agreement .
16 The initial attempts to arrive at a theoretical representation of the dimensions of a linear chain , treated the molecule as a number n of chain elements , joined by bonds of length l .
17 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 .
18 Today it is one of the best automated factories in the world , with computer-controlled parts arriving at the right instant at each work station to churn out reliable personal computers ( ‘ PCs ’ ) for a market that is still growing .
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