Sentence examples for it would be at hand from inspiring English sources

She had placed it there before the dinner so that it would be at hand afterward.

Whoever would desert the common political cause would be denounced by his former friends for having committed a crime against religion, and many witnesses against him would be at hand.

While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not adopted his predecessors' proposals, it is hardly the case that peace would be at hand if he did.

One wrong move and World War III would be at hand.

Huxley's idea was that, if the world's leaders could be turned on, the lion would lie down with the lamb, and peace would be at hand.

Two major rating agencies warned that a once-unthinkable downgrade of the nation's credit rating would be at hand if this crisis was not immediately defused.

Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, went so far as to predict that a deal to head off that so-called fiscal cliff would be at hand "well before Christmas".

Under such a system, the achievement of greater efficiency and equity in our health care system would be at hand. Warren Greenberg Washington, Aug. 27, 2004 The writer is a professor of health economics, George Washington University.

Simply look at the task that would be at hand.

If these two groups could reach an agreement with the approval of at least some of the consumer groups, a legislative solution would be at hand.

was talking up how a replacement bill would be at hand inside of two months, but subsequent reports only served to make one wonder where Manchin found this confidence.