Example sentences of "to arrive at an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His project is to discover the series of computations that the visual system performs on the input-pairs so as to arrive at an interpretation of the ( 2-D ) array in terms of ( 3-D ) replacement , motion , or change . |
| 2 | An object of a particular date in a particular context does not automatically mean that it dates that context : a context often contains artefacts of quite different dates , and it is the archaeologists 's task to arrive at an interpretation that fits all the facts . |
| 3 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 4 | Whereas the language of a and b is quite straightforward and all you require to arrive at an interpretation are values for expressions being used to refer , you may feel that the language here is obscure , perhaps not even meaningful . |
| 5 | This principle instructs the hearer not to construct a context any larger than he needs to arrive at an interpretation . |
| 6 | This consisted of " reading off " , against the benchmarks established in the study , broad descriptions of posts ( or groups of similar posts ) to arrive at an assessment . |
| 7 | It literally takes seconds for a message typed in by someone in Britain to arrive at an address in the US , or Australia , or wherever . |
| 8 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 9 | The method we adopt to arrive at an answer will be peculiar to the enquiry ( or discipline ) we are exploring . |
| 10 | I felt that no attempt was being made to arrive at an analysis of our situation based on the specificity of our experience as lesbians and gays . |
| 11 | An examination of Volume II will quickly reveal the unfinished nature of parts of the material , but there is sufficient there to enable the reader to arrive at an understanding of Marx 's ideas . |
| 12 | For instance , when trying to arrive at an understanding of the Earth in space , children discussed some of the following , statements in groups . |
| 13 | Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of . |
| 14 | A NORTH-EAST woman has lodged a complaint after an ambulance took almost an hour to arrive at an accident . |
| 15 | The failure to arrive at an agreement sufficiently alarmed the District to establish its own sub-committee to examine the District 's future relationships with the Cambridge Board and LEAs in the region . |