Example sentences of "[noun pl] arrived [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | People from all over the world began to make pilgrimages to Monkey Mia and some 200,000 visitors arrived during the 1989 season . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When the American troops arrived in the Saudi desert last August they were mainly shod in 1960s canvas-topped ‘ jungle boots ’ , unchanged since Vietnam . |
| 6 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 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 | In 209 BC spoils arrived from the Greek city of Tarentum , in south-east Italy . |
| 11 | After twenty minutes , three trains arrived at the same time . |
| 12 | For the time the first pioneers arrived to the present day , the white man has felt compelled to tame the desert , to reduce its primeval vastness to human dimensions . |
| 13 | But that was the shock awaiting staff at Knowle infants school , Solihull , yesterday when nine new pairs of three , four and five-year-olds arrived on the same day to join one couple of twins already there . |
| 14 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
| 15 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |