Example sentences of "[noun sg] arrive at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home . |
| 2 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 3 | It 's been dealt with in a different way and not erm with an attempt to arrive at a common policy about it . |
| 4 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
| 5 | Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill , a young , fast-track movie executive whose career comes under threat when another young Turk arrives at the same studio . |
| 6 | A lady arrives at the front counter with something to be looked at . |
| 7 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 8 | The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ’ Halsey arrives at a similar finding , after rejecting the view that women 's work may have moderated the ‘ class-ridden ’ nature of British society : |
| 13 | These movements are preprogrammed " ballistic " responses whose velocities are determined by the anticipated distance of travel , ensuring that the eye arrives at the right place after a fixed period of time . |
| 14 | An official inquiry indicates that her body arrived at the Military Hospital at 16:20 the same day and came from the Military School . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 17 | Far from receiving a discount the purchaser arriving at the average high street store which a bunch of fivers in most cases pays more for his new washing machine or bicycle because the retailer has factored into the pricing structure the credit card company 's fee ( which can range from one to four per cent ) . |
| 18 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The next morning Bathsheba and her maid Liddy were dusting some books , when a visitor arrived at the front door . |
| 21 | But less than a month later , John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger arrived at the Royal Court , and elegant , well-made drawing-room plays like this were supposedly consigned to the dustbin of theatrical history . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After passing Cross House and noting its sundial , the road arrives at the sad ruin of Gibb 's Hall , once a handsome building with literary associations ; it was here that Mary Howitt wrote a novel about Dentdale called Hope On , Hope Ever . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A calculation of the profit and loss account balance brought forward might then be performed and added to the retained profit to arrive at the carried forward balance . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On the morning of the 28th the Emperor arrived at the tiny railway station accompanied by the Empress and by the 14-year-old Prince Imperial , who , like his father , was wearing military uniform , since he was destined also to go to Metz . |
| 29 | Some weeks later , a letter arrived at the little white house on the hill . |
| 30 | It is even more of a coincidence that your letter arrived at the same time as Mrs Hart 's . |