Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] at hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Shelley party were near at hand — though the fluctuations of the time scale made it hard to determine whether they would recognize my name if they heard it . |
| 2 | Now , the means whereby the standards of the higher courses , devised by the new polytechnics , could be validated and monitored were also at hand , with the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) , granted its Royal Charter in 1964 , and charged with ensuring that the courses approved by it were of a standard at least equivalent to similar courses in the universities . |
| 3 | An explanation was soon at hand when it was revealed the ‘ etchings ’ were carved by none other than Ladakhi road-builders , employed on the path in 1982 . |
| 4 | In fact , thanks to Frank Whittle and his team , a solution was already at hand . |
| 5 | Mesnel , known for his Anglophobic outbursts , was always at hand with a vitriolic comment about the ‘ perfidious Albion ’ and what he called ‘ the legendary hypocrisy of the English ’ . |
| 6 | Mancini is more concerned to emphasize Gloucester 's role , but adds that Buckingham ‘ was always at hand ready to assist Gloucester with his advice and resources ’ . |
| 7 | Mancini is more concerned to emphasize Gloucester 's role , but adds that Buckingham ‘ was always at hand ready to assist Gloucester with his advice and resources ’ . |
| 8 | However , Bury was near at hand . |
| 9 | He sent a letter demanding its surrender , but its new ruler replied that the mighty Yusuf was near at hand and that if El Cid wished , he , the ruler of Valencia , would use his influence to gain El Cid a position under the true ruler of Spain ! |
| 10 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |
| 11 | Help , however , was near at hand , for as soon as the buffaloes heard his cry , mingled with the growl of the tigress , they charged onto the road and drove the tigress off . |
| 12 | Others ( who were more justly accused of commercial megalomania or electrical messianism by critics ) felt that the ‘ all-electric ’ future was near at hand , and that it was only a matter of time before all heating — continuous or intermittent — would be by electricity . |
| 13 | By a singular misfortune Mr Bradley had been shot through the chest at the rampart when only the Magistrate was near at hand . |
| 14 | The knowledge that he was helpless to do anything about the forthcoming wedding made things no easier for Seb , and proof that the end of the gipsies ’ way of life in Wychwood was near at hand . |
| 15 | The most important period of the 18th century was now at hand however . |
| 16 | It also matched the analytical strengths of formal economic analysis and correspondingly economic rationalisation to support immediate political needs was readily at hand . |
| 17 | But whatever problems individual proprietors and exhibitors had the industry was there at hand to proffer advice and encouragement . |