Example sentences of "[adv] to hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlton was picked up and carried to Hewett 's house where medical help was soon to hand . |
| 2 | She is expected soon to hand down a ruling . |
| 3 | The Stanley Powerlock , the world 's best-selling pocket measuring tape , is being given away in miniature to help keep house , car and office keys easily to hand . |
| 4 | When he did encounter problems , remedies were easily to hand . |
| 5 | We should n't leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand , we 'll use them without thought ; we wo n't be able to resist . |
| 6 | As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant . |
| 7 | I have to go over to hand in my register now there 's no one here to take charge of it . ’ |
| 8 | Thus the role of the coach is not to hand out advice passively but to act as a partner and a catalyst . |
| 9 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
| 10 | Three European Community countries have introduced legal bans on tobacco advertising : France , where ban comes fully into effect on 1.1.93 , Italy , where the ban came in 1962 , partly to protect the state monopoly tobacco company , and was badly enforced until the mid-1980s and Portugal , where the effects appear indecisive but hard evidence is not to hand . |
| 11 | Notes that you can consult are of great value , but much of the fundamental interpretation of your subjects must be based on an effective memory when notes are not to hand . |
| 12 | If materials are not to hand when they are needed , progress suffers and costs to the constructor increase . |
| 13 | But sometimes politicians have to be seen to respond to public concerns , if they are not to hand ammunition to their opponents . |
| 14 | so it , so I 'm tempted , not to hand , you know , to take them all off before handing them out |
| 15 | ‘ For someone who started out by stating he was not here to make judgments , you would appear to have a few already to hand , ’ he said acidly . |
| 16 | A pile was already to hand and he began folding the pamphlets and inserting them into the envelopes . |
| 17 | time and again the Ministerial contribution to penal policy-making … lies not in the Minister 's bringing in his own fresh policy ideas , but in his operating creatively and with political drive upon ideas , proposals , reports , etc. , that are , so to speak , already to hand , often within the department but sometimes in the surrounding world of penal thought . |
| 18 | The founder 's desire is usually to hand on to his children a more prosperous business than he inherited , and under the latest provisions it will be extremely difficult to do so . |
| 19 | It has the usual big , doleful ballads , smartly arranged and sung , but written with a dictionary of cliches too close to hand . |
| 20 | Jesus looked to material close to hand for the subject matter of his parables . |
| 21 | There is a regular bus service close to hand and also convenient shops . |
| 22 | You then sail in company ( with help close to hand ) for the second week . |
| 23 | In the eleventh and twelfth centuries to build in stone , granite or marble was a prodigious undertaking , particularly if the area concerned did not possess the materials close to hand . |
| 24 | Even a reference to some current event close to hand can offer a lead in to a topic . |
| 25 | Easy the congestion with a very special binder for our pull-out-and-keep Gardeners ' Manual , and keep this invaluable reference work together and always to hand . |
| 26 | Winterbottom , who led England out in honour of his 50th cap , was as vigilant as ever in defence and always to hand in attack . |
| 27 | At a much simpler level , engineers being what they are , recognition of achievement is an effective motivator that is always to hand and , as long as it is ‘ felt fair ’ by peers , runs no great risks in being applied . |
| 28 | A useful selection of stone was also to hand ; travertine , a form of hard limestone from the area near Tivoli , also tufa and peperino , both of volcanic origin . |
| 29 | Duncan reached up to hand Jamie his pint and I took mine , putting the money down at the same time . |
| 30 | Proof is now to hand that some exciting airframes are still there ! |