Example sentences of "advantage [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to most published studies , in the post-cued conditions Cohen found no advantage for partial as compared with full report at any of the delay intervals used in her experiment . |
| 2 | finding of an equivalent partial report advantage for left and right hemifields was due to their use of relatively long delay intervals ( at least 300 msec. ) between stimulus presentation and partial report cue . |
| 3 | Frank Peter Zimmermann is a fine artist , a most gifted player , who delivers admirable accounts of these three different Violin Concertos. he also has the advantage of committed and clearly well-rehearsed support from a very good orchestra under a talented conductor who follows him like a cat . |
| 4 | Bear in mind that rabbits always net better when they are running downhill , so take advantage of that if possible . |
| 5 | And I think you will agree it will be to the best advantage of all if the holidays were curtailed . |
| 6 | Now , he said , while small companies are able to take advantage of small but cheap schemes such as that operated by the IoD , there are also very few major companies that have not taken out this type of insurance . |
| 7 | There were , however , many rural societies and branches of larger societies , whose members were agricultural labourers , who often had the advantage of regular if not of high wages ; and the high fall-out rate of membership of most societies testifies to the numbers who aspired to the security provided by membership but could not maintain regular payments . |
| 8 | It will need a third-party memory manager to take advantage of expanded or extended memory . |
| 9 | Michael Skinner was a brilliant staff officer , with the great advantage of personal and successful experience in the field . |
| 10 | At least there was room on the floor of the gallery — which curtailed Nigel 's ‘ pacing space ’ somewhat but was counterbalanced by the advantage of more than adequate free labour for harvesting . |
| 11 | Erm anybody who 's who 's interested erm if you 'd like to ask for a leaflet aft at the end of the session because the main thing is that you do have to take advantage of this while you are still employed in reckonable service . |
| 12 | The line between misfeasance and nonfeasance is apt to be a fine one and the courts after some hesitation took advantage of this and held mere refusal to redeliver to be conversion . |
| 13 | there was an acute housing shortage , for virtually all classes of society , hence speculative house builders were in a unique position to take advantage of this and other conditions . |
| 14 | The employers took advantage of this and exploited their journeymen by " letting them play in the morning " and calling them from their " houses of call " in the afternoon . |
| 15 | As women take greater advantage of educational and occupational opportunities so sex differences in the level of criminal activity may diminish . |
| 16 | However , any infrasonic vibrations they pick up on migration would be mingled with the very similar air movements produced by turbulence in the atmosphere , and some birds appear to take advantage of these as well . |
| 17 | What did happen was that the nursery staff felt themselves to be part of a wider childcare system and took advantage of formal and informal links . |
| 18 | Instead of the public sector having the advantage of free or subsidised services , the higher the charge the nearer it will be to the private alternative . |
| 19 | Approved a committment to secure the reduction of conventional and nuclear weapons by taking advantage of multilateral and bilateral negotiations , and unilateral initiatives . |
| 20 | Nylon carpet is basically oil based , which gave the Americans a significant advantage until 1980 because of the cheapness of their oil . |
| 21 | Archbishop Wulfstan of York had done his best under Æthelred to rectify social conditions worsened by ravaging , taxation and famine , and produced for the 1018 meeting of Danes and English at Oxford a text " devised according to many good precedents " and intended to be of " advantage in religious and secular matters " which he later used as a basis for his more extensive legal material in Cnut 's name . |
| 22 | Murphy subsequently extended his advantage to 8–1 before there was temporary reprieve for Murphy but a 55 break gave Doherty the title in frame 11 . |
| 23 | Ince was lucky in that he made lots of fouls , but the ref played advantage on some and then forgot about them . |
| 24 | Companies that supply industrial goods markets enjoy one significant advantage over those that trade into consumer markets . |