at one's disposal

Example Sentences

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Carnot perceived very clearly the great fact that, to produce work by heat, it is necessary to have at one's disposal a fall of temperature.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

But what is fifty miles when one is under the wing of the Railway King and can have a special engine at one's disposal.

From Letters from England by Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis

"I cannot see," Patricia had said to Sylvia, "why one should feel it necessary to stick to hot, smelly offices when a library, looking out over acres of country, is at one's disposal."

From The Shield of Silence by Loughridge, George

That depends entirely upon one's energy, one's capacity for taking pains, one's neatness of finger, and the time at one's disposal.

From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.

Hence, in its construction, the prime necessity of calculating what work it has to do, also the quantity of the materials one has at one's disposal.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir