at one's disposal
Example Sentences
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Hence, during its construction, one must first of all consider the magnitude of the work it has to do as well as the quality of the materials one has at one's disposal.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Durand, John
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.
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
It was by no means hard, he thought, to keep oneself spruce when one had so many little pots and phials at one's disposal.
From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
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
