Example sentences of "[adj] advantage [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , new theories suggest there is some considerable thermoregulatory advantage in being bipedal . |
| 2 | Because of its small units the Flydaway also has the theoretical advantage of being able to operate at relatively high frequencies ( one minute headways or less ) even when trade is slack — although this depends on fully automatic driverless trains . |
| 3 | There are theoretical advantages in being large : large males can compete more easily for mates , and large females can bear larger ( and therefore more robust ) offspring , or lay more eggs . |
| 4 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 5 | Ready stiffened and spongeable fabrics especially made for roller blinds can be bought by the metre , and have the additional advantage of being available in widths up to 175cm ( 69in ) , making joins unnecessary except on the widest of windows . |
| 6 | These strong steel tracks can be cut to length by a supplier , pre-bent to fit an awkward bay , and have the additional advantage of being ready corded . |
| 7 | The non-metropolitan districts had the additional advantage of being able to portray themselves as the victims of county councils spending heavily in one of their own non-election years . |
| 8 | Some patients seemed to gain psychological advantages from being ill with their neuroses , and were peculiarly difficult to cure . |
| 9 | Visiting rights have the great advantage of being optional , not obligatory , so Christopher and Jane were only together because they wanted to be . |
| 10 | The eye is the most tell-tale detail of any animal shape and it is a great advantage to be able to obscure it from view . |
| 11 | Starting out for Espero Fray Gary , the warm up area near the campground , we had to use what was left of the road after a landslide and I soon learned an essential fact about climbing in Spain — it 's a great advantage to be able to speak some Spanish . |
| 12 | The trust for sale has the enormous advantage of being available also for trusts of personalty , or of mixed land and personalty , and is also more convenient for creating discretionary trusts , which of course have no life tenant . |
| 13 | But there will frequently be considerable advantages in being able to deal anonymously . |
| 14 | This outcome , in turn , gave the Labour Party the double advantages of being able to choose the date of the next election and of going into it with the prestige of being the government . |
| 15 | Heathrow has , at least , the marginal advantage of being civilized , in that the cattle are gently shifted from one place to another rather than being herded anonymously . |
| 16 | Block pavers have the big advantage of being easy to handle ( they 're usually the same size as conventional bricks ) . |
| 17 | It became increasingly questionable whether New Zealand did a gain a big advantage by being able to insert England , for when the early sideways movement died down , it was replaced not be a comfortable batting surface but by increasingly variable bounce . |
| 18 | The television series is a much richer visual experience , and filming has a completely decisive advantage in being able to explore architecture , inside and out . |
| 19 | The concrete pool still has its adherents and rightly so , for a properly laid concrete pool is as good as any other and has the added advantage of being flexible in design . |
| 20 | And that would have the added advantage of being able to hop from one creature to another . |
| 21 | Blacks start off with an added advantage of being able to move . |
| 22 | Shareware and Public Domain programs are often as good as their commercial counterparts , and there is the added advantage of being able to try the software before you buy it on payment of a nominal fee . |
| 23 | These audio-visual methods have the added advantage of being independent of the availability of the system . |
| 24 | The use of the plastic ring device termed an Intrastromal Corneal Ring has the added advantage of being reversible if the surgery does not improve the sight condition . |
| 25 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |
| 26 | However , the organizational advantages of being able to sample at a regular interval are so considerable that such anxieties are often set aside . |