Example sentences of "to arrive at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 2 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 3 | This is then deducted along with other allowances and deductions from total income to arrive at taxable income . |
| 4 | The best way to arrive at that intelligence is through research . |
| 5 | But to arrive at that moment , he wrote , it is necessary to be patient , it is necessary to hold back , it is often necessary to do nothing . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the evidence which would enable us to arrive at firm conclusions is by no means straightforward . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For one thing , it is difficult to arrive at consistent criteria by which to identify the species . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Recent attempts by psychologists to arrive at psychological tests which identify desirable characteristics in candidates has had only limited success . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even in the absence of information about place and time of original utterance , even in the absence of information about the speaker / writer and his intended recipient , it is often possible to reconstruct at least some part of the physical context and to arrive at some interpretation of the text . |
| 16 | Gassendi has argued that , despite what the sceptics say , it is possible , by inferring back , to arrive at some truth about hidden things . |
| 17 | To arrive at some truth and , for reasons of state , deception is also practised and accepted by society . |
| 18 | Corporate bodies are in continuing tension with legality , seeking to arrive at some accommodation with attempts to regulate their own affairs and to exploit its possibilities for defending or advancing their own interests against rivals . |
| 19 | The Cleveland Inquiry ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) noted that : ‘ It has been impossible from the evidence provided to the Inquiry to arrive at any consensus or to obtain any reliable figures of the general prevalence of sexual abuse of children in the country or in Clevelend ’ ( p.4 ) and later comments that : ‘ We are strongly of the opinion that great caution should be exercised at the present time in accepting percentages as to the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse . |
| 20 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 21 | Denice is never late , so we 've been told , and she 's due to arrive at any moment . |
| 22 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 23 | It has taken several years of animated discussions among the members and their respective lawyers to arrive at these terms and conditions , which are also intended to be in line with the code of conduct adopted last year by the European federation of art dealers , FIDOAO ( Federation Internationale des Diffuseurs d'Oeuvres d'Art Originales ) . |
| 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 arrive at this viewpoint Miliband argued that society was stratified by a number of elites — social , economy ( including managers and not just owners ) , bureaucratic and political — each of which had its own basis of power . |
| 29 | with a high curved roof supported by girders forged in a Liverpool ironworks , and marble pillars and floors , ornately carved canopies , shafts of sunlight emphasising its height , and indeed , everything of a cathedral but altars and pews … . it was a relief to me , after such a long trip , to arrive at this station … |
| 30 | And er , I think , I wo I would wish to extend my thanks to all the finance staff , er , particularly Ann in helping us to arrive at this position . |