Example sentences of "arrived at [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 They had arrived at a first floor landing .
3 For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road .
4 Quite simply , we have now arrived at a stage where too much heat is being trapped .
5 The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment .
6 My colleagues and I , after much consideration have arrived at a decision .
7 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 .
8 It had not been shown that the Special Commissioner had misdirected himself or that he had erred in law or that he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 As a result , they have arrived at a view which I shall call ‘ concessive ’ holism .
12 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 .
13 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 . ’
14 We had driven up a muddy track for ten miles and had arrived at a completely ruined farmhouse with no windows or doors , set into the slope of a mountain , looking over a marshy plain .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life .
18 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 .
19 We have arrived at a multilevel view of style , which is composed of elements of dualism and pluralism .
20 Many agencies have now arrived at a very similar format for creative briefs , which aims to condense and simplify the creative requirements into a single-page format — which may be supported , in turn , by a great deal of back-up information
21 As far as identity is concerned , this does not involve looking primarily for some smug sense of having arrived at a particular social position .
22 They have not arrived at a favourable view of the monarchy because the balance sheet falls in the black .
23 But I am plagued by the thought that we have arrived at a moment in history when this is about to be swept away .
24 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 .
25 Far greater than any of these , second only to Palestrina himself , was Tomas Luis de Victoria ( c. 1548–1611 ) , who in 1565 came to Rome from Spain where Morales ( see p. 236 ) and his pupil Francisco Guerrero ( c. 1527–1599 ) had already arrived at a perfection of the Netherland style hardly distinguishable from the Roman .
26 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 .
27 The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away .
28 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 .
29 In fact , you 're probably thinking that it could n't have arrived at a less propitious moment . ’
30 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 .
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