at one's disposal

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In such case it is also preferable to use a machine with multiple circuits, as in many experiments it is useful and convenient to have at one's disposal currents of different phases.

From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Martin, Thomas Commerford

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

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)

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