Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] arrive at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pathologist was called shortly after detectives arrived at the warehouse in Ashton-under-Lyne , Greater Manchester 15 miles from Kathryn 's home in Bolton . |
| 2 | It is the task in front of humanity to arrive at a definition for all controversial acts and to set a value on them ; acts decided as ‘ good ’ contributing to the Godhead , acts decided as ‘ evil ’ detracting there from , and acts of an innocuous nature as ‘ neutral ’ — , and having no effect . |
| 3 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 4 | Every consignment of beef arriving at the meat plant is subject to a total of 36 separate quality control checks , carried out by a team of qualified technologists . |
| 5 | The ‘ pulsating cusp ’ model uses the fact that the spectra of particles arriving at the ionosphere on a given field line depend upon the time elapsed since that field line was reconnected . |
| 6 | The native of Japan arrives at the station two or three hours before the train is due . |
| 7 | The raiding party was to leave by air for Jalo on 11 January , but shortly before this a bedraggled group of men arrived at the base camp . |
| 8 | Twenty years later , in a survey of men arriving at a Salvation Army hostel , a quarter were diagnosed as having schizophrenia . |
| 9 | A party of soldiers arrived at the inn ; the travellers had earlier met them road-building between Fort Augustus and Anoch and in deference to the hospitality they had received from Mr Trapaud , Johnson and Boswell gave the men cash to buy drink — which now they did . |
| 10 | One vulture sighting carrion below unintentionally informs all others of its availability by swooping downwards , and thus dozens of vultures arrive at the scene of an animal kill in a very short space of time . |
| 11 | Thousands of boxes of parts arrive at the assembly line every week to be emptied and then simply discarded in a corner because Dagenham is not geared to what the modern motor industry calls ‘ just-in-time ’ delivery . |
| 12 | There is a famous story of Nilsson arriving at a rehearsal of his Metropolitan Ring as Brünnhilde with a miner 's lamp on her head : the conductor was well spotlit , but no one could see what was happening on stage . |
| 13 | This was its justification : ‘ All who make war seek through war to arrive at a peace more perfect than existed before war . ’ |
| 14 | This is the first point of contact for patients arriving at the accident and emergency department . |
| 15 | To his left , along the drive , he saw the grey-haired minister from Weem arriving at a gallop . |
| 16 | It literally takes seconds for a message typed in by someone in Britain to arrive at an address in the US , or Australia , or wherever . |
| 17 | One witness claimed a shotgun was brandished before police arrived at the scene . |
| 18 | One witness claimed a shotgun had been brandished before police arrived at the scene . |
| 19 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 20 | Two anglers from London arrived at the draw but immediately set off for home again fearful of travelling conditions . |
| 21 | William Jackson and John Turner had a long discussion about exporting , as they were both inexperienced in such matters , and they listed the strengths and weaknesses of Quality Kraft Carpets in order to arrive at a decision as to which would be the most appropriate overseas market to enter . |
| 22 | But when apparatchiks from Central Office , who have us acting as stewards ( ie , usherettes ) are often seen risking life and limb , SAS-style , in order to arrive at a doorway at the same time as a minister does , they are taking a serious risk with morale . |
| 23 | We might also note that , in order to arrive at the implicature , we have to know certain.facts about the world , that garages sell petrol , and that round the corner is not a great distance away . |
| 24 | ‘ one who helps another to recognize and to follow the inspirations of grace in his life , in order to arrive at the end to which God is leading him ’ . |
| 25 | In order to arrive at the truth behind the idyll , I must return to the matter of attributions . |
| 26 | Likewise in ( 84 ) one can not hear a tune " come " from somewhere ( cf. the strangeness of * I heard the tune come from the top of the hill ) : its source of emission can only be identified by a process of deduction which interprets what is directly observed in order to arrive at the conclusion that the sound is coming from such-and-such a point . |
| 27 | What we now need to ask is has the time arrived er for this measure to begin to be acceptable by the Home Office , it would be nice if there was a just a little indication er as I 'm er proceeding through er this measure from the minister at the despatch box , that the time was now right for this er particular proposal er which was not anything that was voted against er on second reading but merely failed to overcome the hurdle of getting a closure when by seventy eight votes to nil er it was carried except that carrying was not sufficient in order arrive at a closure so that the measure could move in the committee . |
| 28 | Our children , 9 , and , 10 , are still asleep , but I take a cup to my wife before leaving home in time to arrive at the Grain Terminal before 7.00 am . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ It has been established that a police sergeant on patrol arrived at the scene within minutes . |
| 30 | Reverberation is produced by sounds arriving at the listener 's ear having taken several routes of different lengths . |