Example sentences of "[noun sg] arrive [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been dealt with in a different way and not erm with an attempt to arrive at a common policy about it . |
| 2 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
| 3 | The failure of the ITC to arrive at a negotiated settlement with its creditors , who claimed that they were owed a total of £513 million , led to a protracted battle in English courts [ see pp. 35293 ; 36635 ] . |
| 4 | In this a weak input which can not sustain LTF in its own right may be encouraged to do so if combined with a strong stimulus arriving from a second pathway . |
| 5 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 6 | ’ Halsey arrives at a similar finding , after rejecting the view that women 's work may have moderated the ‘ class-ridden ’ nature of British society : |
| 7 | The second group arrived in a banged-up old Ford Cortina , which was now hidden in the lean-to barn behind the house . |
| 8 | These circulars , therefore , provided the DES with the evidence to substantiate its concern for the curriculum and the need to arrive at a national framework , presumably to correct the faults it saw . |
| 9 | The water arrives via a long , straight mill race , about half a mile in length . |
| 10 | It 's based on the short story by Henry James ; a young Governness arrives at a remote country house to look after 2 young children who turn out to be possessed by the ghosts of two dead servants . |
| 11 | Men and machinery arrived with a great deal of noise and bustle . |
| 12 | A climber jumps in his car , burns precious fossil fuels on a stretch of tarmac that has eaten acres of countryside to arrive at an undeveloped crag . |
| 13 | The delegate arriving to an indifferent reception or lack of clear information , even a misspelt name , soon starts to believe that he 's dealing with incompetents . |
| 14 | And a famous , ancient legend of kung fu relates that a Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma , crossed the Himalayas on foot to arrive at a half-ruined monastery whose monks were in a terrible state of health ; Bodhidharma , through a series of health-giving exercises based upon some Indian systems of yoga brought the monks from their emaciated state to a condition of youthful vitality . |
| 15 | However it is difficult to understand how the government arrives at a post-trial solution to a pre-trial problem ; unless it is their intention to lock youngsters up for three years in the new approved schools without trial . |
| 16 | In 1852 Empress Amélia , widow of King Pedro IV of Brazil , and her daughter arrived on a Portuguese navy boat , and in 1860 Elizabeth , Empress of Austria , wife of Franz Josef , arrived on the British royal yacht Victoria and Albert . |
| 17 | A message arrived from a local farmer who had found and secured it until it could be reclaimed . |
| 18 | ‘ The newsagent across the road arrived with a huge pile of Mirrors at eight o'clock and he 'd sold out by 10 . |
| 19 | Customers simply specify whether they want Token Ring , Ethernet or a combination of the two and the thing arrives in a single cardboard box . |
| 20 | A. This argues that , since information arrives at an uneven rate , the observed distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) will be a mixture of a number of normal distributions , and this observed distribution will be leptokurtic . |
| 21 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 22 | The mess sergeant arrived with a brief respite : Captain Apgood was at the back door . |
| 23 | Good health resides in areas under more direct personal control , and those with time to investigate such matters as exercise and nutrition may be in a better position than a doctor to arrive at an accurate understanding . |
| 24 | The ANC foreign affairs director , Thabo Mbeki , said that rival groups " must enjoy equal weight in the debate " and that " national consensus … is a critical element in the common effort to arrive at a new reality of justice and peace " . |
| 25 | In the long term , with bookings for next summer arriving in a bare trickle , the prospects are disastrous . |
| 26 | Just before their last concert , a police officer arrives with a strange message for them . |
| 27 | The couple arrived at a military base outside Seoul for the start of their four-day tour in the ‘ land of the morning calm ’ . |
| 28 | Well , MCPS have a team of Licence Negotiators whose job it is to negotiate between the producer and our member to arrive at an agreeable rate . |
| 29 | However , this ad hoc procedure has not been without its critics , largely because of doubts about whether it is possible to perform the exercise with sufficient precision to arrive at a clear-cut evaluation . |
| 30 | Holists therefore face the pressing task of effecting a compromise : they must somehow overcome the opposition between their own view of the individual and that held by individualists in order to arrive at a coherent theory . |