Example sentences of "to arrive [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's not much of anything in Albania , but foreign aid is beginning to arrive as European governments urge stablity in the region . |
| 2 | I recall my partner panting , puffing and praying his way over a traverse which in no way resembled the route description , to arrive with abject horror at my belay . |
| 3 | Rachel was n't expecting her family to arrive until late morning so she decided on a quick visit to the occupational health centre to see if by any remote chance David might be there . |
| 4 | Opposition parties , clearly suspicious that the conference had been packed with supporters of President Mobutu Sese Seko , hoped that the postponement would allow time for delegates to arrive from rural areas . |
| 5 | It is expected to arrive in early September and will take part in the Autumn Steam Gala on Saturday , Sunday , September 26 and 27 together with a selection of Great Western locomotives . |
| 6 | There has been a fairly constant tendency since 1962 for Bewick 's Swans to appear earlier in winter , and in 1972 the Amberley flock started to arrive in late October . |
| 7 | Donations of fire-fighting equipment and technical advice began to arrive in late October , but observers commented that these were likely to be largely of symbolic political value only . |
| 8 | Mint Stamps — A full set of stamps for each issue , packaged to arrive in mint condition in a protective folder . |
| 9 | Alan had asked me to arrive in good time with the Registration of Death certificate and , equally important apparently , the cheque , without which the cremation could not take place . |
| 10 | We fly to Copenhagen on Monday on the 11.45 SAS flight from Glasgow , then catch the late afternoon flight to Bornholm to arrive in good time for dinner at Svaneke , our base for six days . |
| 11 | Guests at the Award ceremony were invited to arrive in good time so that they could take part in the fund raising . |
| 12 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 13 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 14 | This is then deducted along with other allowances and deductions from total income to arrive at taxable income . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the evidence which would enable us to arrive at firm conclusions is by no means straightforward . |
| 16 | The only proper way to arrive at sustainable definitions of good educational practice is by sharing and analysing ideas and values , marshalling and examining evidence , and applying both processes to the task of formulating principles . |
| 17 | This was reflected in the difficulty which a number of local law societies clearly experienced in attempting to arrive at agreed conclusions on the questions posed . |
| 18 | But it is certainly not impossible and the attempt to arrive at agreed standards in all organizations can be helpful and educational to manager and employees alike . |
| 19 | For one thing , it is difficult to arrive at consistent criteria by which to identify the species . |
| 20 | Whether our interest is practical or theoretical , whether we set out to provide the ‘ correct ’ treatment for children of various ages or whether we wish to understand the processes underlying their behaviour , we must describe and experiment systematically and objectively in order to arrive at worthwhile conclusions . |
| 21 | The utilitarian theorists — such as L W Sumner and Joseph Fletcher — reject moral absolutes , but still rely on deductive reasoning to arrive at moral principles and are much given to abstract statements like ‘ a fetus is a human being which is not yet a person ’ . |
| 22 | Recent attempts by psychologists to arrive at psychological tests which identify desirable characteristics in candidates has had only limited success . |
| 23 | Counselling the ill is more difficult than counselling the well , not least because of their reduced ability to think clearly , to make judgements , to arrive at sound decisions , to determine on a course of action and generally to fight their own battles . |
| 24 | He felt he should be watching the road from behind the curtains , waiting for the badmen to arrive at High Noon , while in the background a voice intoned ‘ Do not forsake me , o my darling ’ . |
| 25 | John Rawls , in A Theory of Justice , seeks to arrive at abstract principles of justice by means of a device which strips the procedure of arriving at principles bare of all reference to the particular and concrete . |
| 26 | The revaluation at a common date has helped , as has agreement in practice to arrive at comparable results . |
| 27 | Coen and Hickman dispense with the common practice of linking changes in NAIRU with changes in the natural unemployment rate , preferring instead to rely on demographic and other data to arrive at direct estimates of the natural rate , estimates which do not take as their reference point the behaviour of the rate of inflation . |
| 28 | To accommodate such large numbers , visitors were asked to arrive at different times , all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam . |
| 29 | Even if the outcomes remain at the level of measurable behaviour the possibilities for partners to arrive at different interpretations of what has been ‘ agreed ’ are considerable . |
| 30 | I have already indicated in Chapter 2 that , even if we assume that true observational statements are available to us in some way , it is never possible to arrive at universal laws and theories by logical deductions on that basis alone . |