Example sentences of "[verb] arrived [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life . |
| 2 | An educated person in this model is not one who has arrived at a state of knowledge but one who is embarked upon a never-ending developmental process of becoming . |
| 3 | The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment . |
| 4 | Do you ever have to copy type into the computer text and other data that has arrived in a fax ? |
| 5 | Sometimes she 'd found it difficult to believe a word he said , but he had been there to meet her when she 'd arrived as a stranger . |
| 6 | On one issue — the nature of the orcs — Tolkien seems very nearly to have arrived at a solution without quite being able to grasp it , a sign , perhaps , of exhaustion . |
| 7 | Rincewind did so , and watched the nervous Broadman , who had arrived at a gallop from some back room , lead the way up the wooden steps behind the bar . |
| 8 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 9 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 10 | An authoritative Soviet study on the diplomacy of the developing states , prefaced by Firyubin a couple of years before his ASEAN tour , had arrived at a definition of neutralisation on the basis of declarations by the statesmen of Southeast Asia . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's wrong with her ? ’ asked Juliet , remembering the thin , dark-haired woman who had arrived on a stretcher just before she went for her coffee break . |
| 12 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 13 | Thurston , had arrived with a load of ammunition for the Beaufighters on 7th , but had been delayed three days in leaving again due to a heavy swell on the sea . |
| 14 | By the mid-19th century the Machine Age had arrived with a vengeance , which was only fitting , since that Age had itself begun in the west of Scotland . |
| 15 | Tanya Irwin , who had arrived with a gaggle of student chums with the intention of having a laugh , did just that , skipping into Round Two with her rendition of ‘ That 's What Friends Are For ’ . |
| 16 | And so , after long and careful deliberation , we have arrived at a compromise between our official responsibilities and our natural wish to avoid hindering your father 's release in any way . |
| 17 | My colleagues and I , after much consideration have arrived at a decision . |
| 18 | I have made as accurate an estimate as I am able of the value of my own estate , and have arrived at a total of about £580,000 . |
| 19 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 20 | We have arrived at a multilevel view of style , which is composed of elements of dualism and pluralism . |
| 21 | As a result , they have arrived at a view which I shall call ‘ concessive ’ holism . |
| 22 | But I am plagued by the thought that we have arrived at a moment in history when this is about to be swept away . |
| 23 | Editor 's comment : The Australian government are quite entitled to apply sanctions against South Africa if they so wish but the correct time to apply them is not after competitors have arrived for a World Championships in Australia to which they have been invited . |
| 24 | The second problem on the minds of Germans is the perceived invasion of their country by foreigners , especially by those who have arrived as a result of the liberal asylum laws . |