Example sentences of "it be to [pron] advantage " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When it 's to their advantage men use the same ploy . ’ |
| 2 | Luckily , I 've come to terms with my height and now it 's to my advantage , ’ she says . |
| 3 | ‘ We think as you 're out o ’ pocket enough , what wi' buyin' the timber , an' it 's to our advantage , ’ a carpenter explained — the man who had been cheated by the coal merchant . |
| 4 | There is no easy solution to the problem this creates for treaty parties : it is to their advantage that a treaty be widely recognised as normative , and they can not deny the application of customary law to a single State . |
| 5 | In competition it is to my advantage to feel for others as little as possible , an advantage which outweighs my dread of a growing isolation . |
| 6 | I tell you the truth : it is to your advantage that I go away ; for if I do not go away , the Paraclete will not come to you ; but if I go , I will send him to you . |
| 7 | ‘ It is to your advantage that I go away , for if I do not go away the Paraclete will not come to you . |
| 8 | It was n't compulsory by any means — there was nothing to prevent them wearing civilian fashion — but they chose to advertise their solidarity with their husbands , to demonstrate esprit de corps and , as it happened , even at home in malai land as well as here in occupied territory , it was to their advantage to show who they were . |
| 9 | No doubt members would calculate whether it was to their advantage to have the waiting period reduced to 12 months . |
| 10 | Britain 's union structure was one of a series of ‘ fragmented monopolies ’ , each monopoly looking over its shoulder at other monopolies and exploiting the comparison whenever it was to its advantage . |