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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They arrived at a huge dome . |
| 12 | Lord Edmund-Davies similarly arrived at a narrower conclusion than Lord Diplock . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 15 | They followed the stretcher until they arrived at a large tent which had a hastily painted sign slung across its front . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The couple arrived at a military base outside Seoul for the start of their four-day tour in the ‘ land of the morning calm ’ . |
| 18 | They have not arrived at a favourable view of the monarchy because the balance sheet falls in the black . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So general SVQs have arrived at a good time . |
| 21 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 22 | They have arrived at a similar endpoint , from a very different starting point . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | According to Mr Dieter Brauninger , an economist at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt , the newcomers could not have arrived at a better time : a period of dynamic growth , when gaps created by the fall in the birth rate in the past two decades need to be filled . |
| 25 | Yet , with Deacon Blue getting the high score covering Bacharach & David songs , and a lot of new bubblegum little more than MOR , ‘ Sundrive Road ’ could n't have arrived at a better time , when there must be a pay-out for mature bands making no bones about playing pop for its own sake . |
| 26 | Yet , with Deacon Blue getting the high score covering Bacharach & David songs , and a lot of new bubblegum little more than MOR , ‘ Sundrive Road ’ could n't have arrived at a better time , when there must be a pay-out for mature bands making no bones about playing pop for its own sake . |
| 27 | Lamenting ‘ the feeling of morbid sympathy with criminals which at the present moment undoubtedly exists ’ , The Times ( 18 November 1856 ) had arrived at a sorry conclusion : ‘ Philanthropy , like crinoline , has become the fashion . ’ |
| 28 | For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road . |
| 29 | But Moose have got steadily better as they 've gone along and arrived at a winsome pop style not a million miles from Lloyd Cole . |
| 30 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |