Example sentences of "to arrive at [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ETA Ardneavie 2200/22/6 , her travel instructions stated precisely — which really meant that Wren Violet T. McKeown was expected to arrive at her destination by 10 P.M. on the twenty-second day of June .
2 The train was due to arrive at her destination at midday — which gave Fabia , free of any other occupation , ample time to go over and over again everything that had happened .
3 Mat was good too , because he did n't want to arrive at her place hot and flustered ; not today , not with her at the end of the walk , not with that subtle but unequivocal promise there , waiting , ready .
4 In order to arrive at its findings , the European Commission does what no court in this country can do , namely sit in judgment upon the policy and justification of an Act of Parliament .
5 Similarly , more complex forms such as superpolyhedra can be directed through a modular structure to arrive at their duals .
6 The projects will include experiments with : ( i ) buses powered by alternative fuels such as natural gas and rape methyl ester ( RME , derived from rapeseed oil ) ; ( ii ) electronic systems for tracking buses to inform people when a bus is expected to arrive at their stop ; and ( iii ) control systems for traffic lights to ease congestion by allowing buses priority .
7 They use alternative , but equally valid , methods of thinking to arrive at their answers .
8 The Law Lords certainly seemed to stretch themselves to arrive at their conclusion .
9 To arrive at your choice of breeder , you have started gathering information months , perhaps years beforehand .
10 A good arrangement is to allow about 10cm ( 4in ) each for a ‘ tube ’ and space in between , but vary this in order to arrive at your track length .
11 Items are beginning to arrive at my home for display .
12 I 'm quite clear that I do not need either an outline or a planning application in order to arrive at my conclusion that the effect of any development on these sites would be deleterious to the historic character of Skelton .
13 Onward travel is via Belgium and Germany to arrive at our centre around lunch time the following day .
14 As soon as dusk begins to fall , the local starlings begin to arrive at our house .
15 … how is he [ the referee ] to arrive at his decision ?
16 In order to arrive at his election and the election in passing of two other candidates , it was necessary to transfer 113 parcels of ballot papers , involving altogether 16,397 movements of votes .
17 He had not , of course , expected to arrive at his objective quite so easily .
18 When the load failed to arrive at his firm 's nearby timber yard by 11.30am , he went to the dock to investigate .
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