Example sentences of "be at hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until now the only sure solution has been to grow peaches under glass , but help may be at hand . |
| 2 | Details of clothing grants , free school meals and community contacts should also be at hand . |
| 3 | So for all you prospective parents out there help may be at hand in around two years time . |
| 4 | One of the senior staff in the Home should be at hand to deal with formalities . |
| 5 | A BREAKTHROUGH may be at hand in combating one of the most perplexing diseases of adolescence , juvenile diabetes . |
| 6 | But an end to illicit trafficking in these drugs may be at hand . |
| 7 | Whatever happens , Tendulkar is no doubt resting easily at night safe in the knowledge that Geoffrey Boycott has already emerged as a sort of godfather figure , willing to be called on to help at any time , to be party to any photo opportunity that may be at hand . |
| 8 | A suicidal gesture is another , often unconsciously made when help is likely to be at hand . |
| 9 | HELP could soon be at hand for Britain 's 500,000 stammerers . |
| 10 | Some relief may be at hand . |
| 11 | Government forces had constantly to be at hand . |
| 12 | Help may be at hand , tough , in the shape of a small development team called Direct Designs . |
| 13 | Well , help may be at hand from two fronts . |
| 14 | Oxygen , suction and emergency equipment must be at hand and in working order . |
| 15 | If you 're fed up with your teenage children getting under your feet in the school holidays , help may be at hand . |
| 16 | If either of you should get into difficulties , help will be at hand . |
| 17 | An effective solution to the problem may now be at hand . |
| 18 | So when the recent rains filled the gutters and left my back garden awash , I assumed an end to the ban might be at hand . |
| 19 | So , er , help may be at hand in the future . |
| 20 | Officers will be at hand to assist any disabled persons . |
| 21 | If you 've ever worried about how to get a spider out of your bath … help could be at hand . |
| 22 | But help may be at hand in the form of Holly , a dalmatian which is the middle of a phantom pregnancy . |
| 23 | But the time must be at hand to see if he can do for Scotland what he is doing for Celtic , and not simply because of injury to others . |
| 24 | So when our Lord spoke about the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand , he was referring to its being qualitatively present . |
| 25 | The proper instrument for the purpose not being at hand , a man was sent to get it from the Bedford Infirmary . |
| 26 | Most of them involved ‘ killings committed impulsively with whatever means were at hand ’ , usually by ‘ men in their 60s or 70s [ who ] had reached breaking point under the continuing strain of looking after wives with severe mental or physical illness ’ . |
| 27 | Scapegoats were at hand . |
| 28 | One could wish that to celebrate this moving occasion ( for it is at least a partial farewell ) a master of verbal portraiture were at hand ; though so elusive is personality , so unlike the impression that the same person may make on different observers , we might well have no great faith in the verisimilitude of the sketch , if produced . |
| 29 | For our purposes , one of the most important characteristics of the Essenes was their apocalyptic vision — their insistence that the Last Times were at hand and that the advent of the Messiah was imminent . |
| 30 | Changes were at hand , however . |