Example sentences of "[adj] to arrive at [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This can make it easier to arrive at the correct spot by varying the radius and steepness of the turn .
2 Or even if you have to clarify the title by saying who is responsible for making sure that materials that you use arrive at the place that they 're supposed to arrive at the time .
3 It is clearly imperative to arrive at a correct diagnosis of the origins of involuntary unemployment .
4 This makes it all the more important to arrive at the interview well prepared .
5 If , for lack of a formula , British ministries ( and no doubt ministries elsewhere ) are unable to price the amenity value of landscapes threatened by development , how on earth would any government — or , more probably a conference of governments — be able to arrive at a system for pricing the air ?
6 It is clear from the above that higher headquarters placed great emphasis on L Detachment remaining essential fly as a parachute unit , and this was in keeping with Stirling 's doctrine that his men should be able to arrive at a target by whatever means were most suitable .
7 To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident .
8 If the customer base is broadly the same as for existing products , then the credit manager should be able to arrive at a reasonable assessment of these factors .
9 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 .
10 You obviously have to work it out in some way , but you seem able to arrive at the answer almost instantly .
11 The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it .
12 If the Government were concerned to arrive at a proper system , they would accept that fairness was the answer .
13 The longest and costliest criminal case in US history ended on July 27 when the prosecution dropped child molestation charges against Raymond Buckey after the jury had declared itself unable to arrive at a majority verdict .
14 It is possible to arrive at a probable date for the birth of Jesus .
15 From these figures , it is possible to arrive at a number of quite different versions of what changes took place in the years in question .
16 Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization .
17 For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise .
18 Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by .
19 The court heard that Mr Hale 's crew was one of the first to arrive at the underground station after the fire broke out .
20 Male cotton leafworm moths fare better , because the first to arrive at the female releases a scent which acts as a jamming signal on its competitors .
21 Loretta was the first to arrive at the restaurant .
22 Such patterns may be the result of Sisyphean fitness and not represent irreversible tendencies to speciation , i.e. the formation of ‘ populations ’ of plant genotypes , representing the best available to arrive at a particular point under the prevailing biotic and physical features at any one particular time .
23 It would be very difficult to arrive at the same conclusion in 1988 .
24 It must be frustrating to arrive at a police station after a hectic drive , only to find that ‘ the processes of investigation ’ necessitated a quick confession from the client .
25 A trial and adjustment session with your saw will be necessary to arrive at the setting of exactly 15° .
26 She was the last to arrive at the party .
  Next page