Example sentences of "arrive at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Drawing on such work , Becher arrives at a four-part typology of hard/pure , hard/applied , soft/pure and soft/applied .
2 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 .
3 The argument is that he had power to enjoy so much of the income of Attleborough [ the overseas company ] as was spent in expenses , etc , so that by this route one arrives at a taxable amount of net income .
4 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 .
5 ’ Halsey arrives at a similar finding , after rejecting the view that women 's work may have moderated the ‘ class-ridden ’ nature of British society :
6 It arrives at a different time from the rest of the mail .
7 It eventually arrives at a short recapitulation of the initial music which , in its turn , breaks into a closing ‘ burst ’ of music which does sound like late eighteenth-century wind music , but which is actually a stylistic pastiche .
8 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 .
9 The migrating cells may be made up of a mixture of all the different cell types in immature form , that go to all the sites and a particular type survives only if it arrives at an appropriate site — a sort of cell selection .
10 In contract Mr does not count hours , but arrives at an overall figure of seven thousand five hundred pounds .
11 David Livingstone arrives at an African village .
12 With a new rabbit and a short-haired piebald guinea pig in a box , Victoria arrived at a once-grand Queen Anne house in Wiltshire that was now a school devoted to raising the daughters of the gentry .
13 In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt .
14 Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it .
15 They arrived at a huge dome .
16 Lord Edmund-Davies similarly arrived at a narrower conclusion than Lord Diplock .
17 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 .
18 If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical .
19 They followed the stretcher until they arrived at a large tent which had a hastily painted sign slung across its front .
20 Negotiations in Renville arrived at a precarious agreement , signed on 17 January 1948 , by which the Van Mook Line was accepted , in return for virtually nothing .
21 The couple arrived at a military base outside Seoul for the start of their four-day tour in the ‘ land of the morning calm ’ .
22 We arrived at an other dam around noon ; water was rushing over the huge rocks and it was too risky to try to paddle across so the canoes were lined across .
23 Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river .
24 Eventually they arrived at an enormous kitchen .
25 They have not arrived at a favourable view of the monarchy because the balance sheet falls in the black .
26 Gould found he ‘ had arrived at a good time , the birds having just commenced breeding ’ , and was immediately off to resume his researches with Natty and Jemmy in the cedar brushes of the Liverpool Range and on the nearby stretches of the Dart Brook .
27 So general SVQs have arrived at a good time .
28 They had arrived at a first floor landing .
29 They have arrived at a similar endpoint , from a very different starting point .
30 Having arrived at a suitable total for local authority expenditure , the next problem is how to express it in a way that allows comparisons to be made either with other contemporary expenditures or with local authority expenditure over time .
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