at one's disposal

Example Sentences

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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.

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

In any case the impulse is to investigate the form and structure as far as the means at one’s disposal will permit.

From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton

What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

From Second Plays by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

"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