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

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1 It can be very frustrating to leave home in perfect conditions only to arrive at the chosen beach with rain and an unfavourable wind .
2 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 .
3 Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river .
4 We 've got everyone here and Dalton 's just arrived at the front desk .
5 She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment .
6 Maggie met and talked to others she knew before finally arriving at the Commemorative Hall .
7 However , Brownie Helper 's husband would act as chauffeur , so not being able to think of more excludes , I duly arrived at the appointed hour , to find a welcoming party of six little girls , all anxious to fetch and carry equipment .
8 Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record ?
9 Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks .
10 No two different paths from the start will ever arrive at the same state .
11 But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small .
12 Lord Edmund-Davies similarly arrived at a narrower conclusion than Lord Diplock .
13 Moreover , if the two eventually arrive at the same truth anyway then there seems to be little need for dialectical reason at all .
14 I 've tried to learn from readers ' comments and , hopefully , have now arrived at the ideal blend of appetite satisfaction combined with gastronomic appeal .
15 The first haul of 264 specimens has now arrived at the Open University 's base in Milton Keynes .
16 The Collector had independently arrived at the same conclusion by watching the slope above the melon beds where the number of spectators was beginning to increase rapidly .
17 If correct — and Samuel says a second Soviet team has independently arrived at the same figure — it lowers the previous estimate by only one per cent .
18 Turning her back on Ben Stack , Ann struck off in as straight a line as possible , eventually arriving at the main road , about three miles east of Scourie .
19 The speed of élite competition means that your countering punch either arrives at the same time as any deflection you make , or very soon after it .
20 Until a sane , liberal regime is restored within the party itself , it will not be fully re-equipped either to arrive at the right policy choices or to project itself as a responsive party to the electorate .
21 However , the problems that we have considered mean that it is likely that we may miss the target and actually arrive at an unintended situation .
22 It is possible , for example , to read Henry James scholarship exhaustively and never arrive at a nodding mention , much less a satisfactory treatment , of the black woman who lubricates the turn of the plot and becomes the agency of moral choice and meaning in What Maisie Knew .
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