Example sentences of "readily [prep] hand " in BNC.
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1 | What is not readily to hand is a valid general assessment of the damage which the disposals may be doing . |
2 | And it can be equally damaging if unfamiliarity with Community mechanisms leaves an enterprise exposed to anti-competitive practices where effective remedies lie readily to hand if the proper advice is sought . |
3 | But if by eclecticism is meant the random and expedient use of whatever technique comes most readily to hand , then it has no merit whatever . |
4 | And for those who like the idea of even more sights and nightlife readily to hand , the wonderful city of Vienna is just down the road . |
5 | What study area is available to me to work in , where a range of materials in readily to hand ? a question obviously involving the provision of a multi-media library . |
6 | If Michael Peto is somewhat forgotten these days , it is perhaps partly due to his wife 's decision to leave his entire archive to the University of Dundee where , because of limited funding and the Scottish city 's relative geographical remoteness , it is not , for most of us , readily to hand . |
7 | It 's also a good idea to have a spare machine readily to hand and regularly checked so that it can be wheeled in at a moment 's notice . |
8 | A school , you know , is like — ’ here the headmaster came to a halt , because he had launched into a metaphor without having a metaphor readily to hand ; and in fact he had very few notions of what a school was like — ‘ is like the human body . |
9 | Once you have eliminated superfluous items in this way , you can prioritize the rest of your storage so that the most useful items come most readily to hand . |
10 | Very often it is a plant which grows readily at hand . |
11 | Should you be working alone there is no help readily at hand and the consequences could be serious . |
12 | It also matched the analytical strengths of formal economic analysis and correspondingly economic rationalisation to support immediate political needs was readily at hand . |
13 | For this reason I believed that Dr Mumby should always have had full resuscitative equipment readily at hand . |