Example sentences of "[adv] arrive at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 2 | So a Gettier counter-example is one in which a has a justified but false belief by inference from which he justifiably believes something which happens to be true , and so arrives at a justified true belief which is not knowledge . |
| 3 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 4 | The statements so arrived at ( I will call them observation statements ) then form the basis from which the laws and theories that make up scientific knowledge are to be derived . |
| 5 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 6 | I only arrived at it this morning . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Brandreth said : ‘ Mr Hanley only arrived at his desk this week , but I have asked to see him as a matter of urgency because I want him to reconsider the whole question of the location of the Army 's pay and personnel centre . |
| 8 | In reciprocal discourse , then , interlocutors can always establish , by the turn-taking of talk , the necessary grounds of shared knowledge , and so arrive at a mutually satisfactory schematic convergence . |
| 9 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 10 | ( b ) to be able to appreciate the interlinking of everything and the force of cumulative evidence , and that what is done and learnt in school can not be divorced from what happens outside ; ( c ) to appreciate that religion challenges head-on any view that regards knowledge as something only arrived at by reasoning and scientific experimentation ; ( d ) to be concerned about conviction for or against religion , but to be open to evidence and to experience — not to have the answers all neatly sewn up , but to see life as a journey of exploration with exciting prospects and a sense of fulfilment in actually moving forward and , if necessary , changing in order to accommodate fresh insight . |
| 11 | Even if we were to include the value attributed to armaments in PP4 we would only arrive at a total of 21,019 . |
| 12 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 13 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 14 | Indeed , just as Berkeley 's immaterialism foreshadows the phenomenalist theory of perception developed by the so-called Logical Empiricists of this century , so his view , according to which the aim of science is not to provide explanations of nature 's regularities but only to arrive at concise and useful descriptions of them , foreshadows their instrumentalism . |
| 15 | It can be very frustrating to leave home in perfect conditions only to arrive at the chosen beach with rain and an unfavourable wind . |
| 16 | However , where comparisons can be made with alternative sources of data , and where it is possible to provide some evidence to counter the possibility that the findings are due purely to ‘ data collection ’ effects , we can perhaps arrive at some tentative conclusions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is the position that Djilas eventually arrives at , arguing that because ‘ property ’ meant the use , enjoyment and disposition of material goods , and the communist political bureaucracy uses , enjoys and disposes of collectivized property through the organizational medium of state administrative institutions , it obtains its power and privileges from the collective ownership of state property and therefore constitutes a new class ( Djilas 1957 ) . |
| 19 | 14 The impulse finally arrives at the biceps by means of the motor end plate . |
| 20 | He thus arrives at the ‘ common spiritual etymon , the psychological root ’ of the multiplicity of linguistic features in the work , the ‘ creative center ’ from which everything in it emanates ( Spitzer 1948 : 1–39 ) . |
| 21 | A walk across the moor to the north from this point soon arrives at an area of limestone pierced by the many shafts of Tailbrigg Pots . |
| 22 | The road out of Shiel Bridge runs along the south side of Loch Duich and soon arrives at a junction where a no-through-branch turns off to serve the scattered habitations along the shore , ending at Totaig and the forlorn slipway of the abandoned ferry to Dornie . |
| 23 | Baldwin finally arrived at the Palace at 3.00 p.m . |
| 24 | We finally arrived at a figure of two hundred and fifty pounds and he was perfectly agreeable . ’ |
| 25 | Ransom , the name finally arrived at , develops its own significance in the sequels to Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 26 | I negotiated my way to Piccadilly — those illuminations are a splendid sight — and after a few more adventures finally arrived at the Savoy . |
| 27 | We finally arrived at Caboolture Airport near Brisbane thirteen months after leaving London , greeted by Australian friends and the press . |
| 28 | We finally arrived at an event of which the adult Sylvia had no recollection whatsoever , but which to the baby must have been dramatically traumatic . |
| 29 | Eventually we took off again , this time into the cloud-spattered European sky and finally arrived at Heathrow well past dark . |
| 30 | When they finally arrived at the cathedral , the world held its collective breath and Diana , with her father leaning heavily on her arm , walked with painful slowness down the aisle . |