Example sentences of "ready to [be] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian workers from Uzbekistan pour concrete and fit window frames but eight months after the earthquake , not one was ready to be handed over for use . |
| 2 | Although he has completed five years , he will continue for another couple of years until the parish is ready to be handed over to the local clergy . |
| 3 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 4 | The essence of this is that if the goods are identified and agreed upon and ready to be handed over , the parties are taken to have intended the buyer to become the owner immediately , i.e. at the very instant that the contract is made . |
| 5 | You 've got I 'll give you twenty minutes and it 's got ta be ready to be handed over to the other group in twenty minutes time . |