Example sentences of "[pron] had benefited " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golkar , presenting itself as the guarantor of stability and economic growth , was backed by the country 's 4,000,000 civil servants and by the business community , and also polled strongly in rural areas , especially in those regions which had benefited from government development programmes . |
| 2 | From captured government-owned television and radio stations in the capital , the rebels appealed to Venezuelans to join the rebellion against what they claimed was a corrupt government which had benefited a narrow elite at the expense of growing poverty among the population . |
| 3 | For many of the students who took part in them did not have the working-class back- ground traditionally associated with militant anti-Francoism , but came from prosperous , middle-class families which had benefited socially and economically from Francoism . |
| 4 | Last night Hacene Mefti , Algeria 's oil minister , said his country was also unhappy at the outcome , claiming that other members which had benefited from Kuwait 's absence from the quota system for two years should do more to help smaller producers . |
| 5 | Benjamin the Silversmith provided young William with the same kind of solid foundation in life from which he himself had benefited : on 7 January 1864 an apprenticeship was arranged with Frederick William Ashdown , a gold-engraver of I Green Terrace , Clerkenwell . |
| 6 | This revealed that the University Grants Committee , the UFC 's predecessor , had breached Treasury rules in allowing 20 universities to re-employ the lecturers and professors who had benefited from a £130 million early retirement programme . |
| 7 | A rehabilitation programme restored most ‘ middle peasants ’ to their homes and wives , leaving those who had benefited from their expropriation resentful . |
| 8 | The majority of people who had benefited by the use of regulation 72 have suffered some kind of physical and/or mental disability . |
| 9 | The failure to hold a vote fed rumours that some MPs had been paid up to US$10,000 each to disrupt the proceedings , and reinforced the belief that those who had benefited most from the coup were obstructing Aristide 's return . |
| 10 | The Country opposition were also deeply suspicious of the influence of the new financial interest , and a significant number of those who had benefited from the financial revolution of the 1690s were Whigs , many of them Dissenters . |
| 11 | Certainly some of the female science students felt that they had benefited from a single-sex education . |
| 12 | Increasingly the Scots were coming to feel that they had benefited little from the establishment of the new regime in 1689 , and as a result Jacobitism north of the border took on nationalistic overtones . |
| 13 | But their achievement was marred by suggestions that they had benefited from " protest voters " motivated primarily by disillusionment with the main parties . |
| 14 | In the survey of people who had used the tape ‘ Coping with Anxiety ’ , produced by the Liverpool based Council for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction [ CITA ] , four out of five anxiety sufferers questioned said they had benefited from it , experiencing a reduction in their anxiety , fewer panic attacks or a better night 's sleep . |
| 15 | And , although he had benefited from the publicity surrounding the death and from the cheapness of the star 's replacement , he would also have benefited from Michael Banks 's drawing power , had he survived . |