Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] at hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now although in evolutionary terms , given the amounts of genetic variability usually at hand , it is likely that such behaviour has been arbitrary in the required sense ( witness Apis mellifera v. |
| 2 | There 's a light switch near at hand inside that tank and , as you are wearing ear plugs , you find yourself floating in a soundless , dark and warm environment . |
| 3 | For this reason I believed that Dr Mumby should always have had full resuscitative equipment readily at hand . |
| 4 | Should you be working alone there is no help readily at hand and the consequences could be serious . |
| 5 | Most schools , I am glad to say , have aquariums and goldfish , water snails , weeds , stones , shells are to be observed carefully and often and the children can then create a picture from a real experience , not necessarily from direct observation , but with the experience near at hand for reference when needed . |
| 6 | Someone shouted from a slit trench near at hand , ‘ Great — what some bastards will do to get a Blighty . ’ |
| 7 | The shelling and the mortaring had ceased except for the occasional explosion near at hand . |
| 8 | There is such an area near at hand . |
| 9 | Though Shurton proved to be less than fertile ground for Pantisocracy , Henry Poole was quite happy to guide Coleridge and Southey to more promising territory near at hand . |
| 10 | For Coleridge there was always the immediate possibility of escape , either to the bookroom near at hand , or to the more distant hills . |