Example sentences of "advantage [prep] [det] [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of this is that when you start gigging , you have someone out front who knows your songs , and who can either mix your sound or at least keep an eye on the house engineer . |
| 2 | The advantage of this is that since the signal position remains the same the signal too is unchanged . |
| 3 | The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state , vulnerable to attack . |
| 4 | One advantage of this is that it 's not always the most expensive guitars that sound the best . |
| 5 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 6 | The advantage of this is that the effects last only four to six hours , whereas the more common warfarin , used as an anti-coagulant , stays active for 48 hours . |
| 7 | The obvious advantage of this is that you only need to lug it around if you 're going to use it , so there 's another saving on weight . |
| 8 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 9 | One great advantage of this is that you can afford to have many more scenes in which your hero questions suspects or witnesses . |
| 10 | Install a hard drive instead of one of the floppies — the advantage of this is that it is the least expensive but the major disadvantage is my complete lack of technical knowledge and the need to purchase and install the controller which I understand my machine does not have . |
| 11 | The advantage of this is that it enables us to start focusing on content . |
| 12 | The advantage of this is that there is now a great deal of choice at competitive prices . |
| 13 | The advantage of this is that , given that you have got to exchange witness statements anyway , there is always a chance that your opponents may consider that the evidence is not crucial or controversial and allow the statement to go in without the witness being called . |
| 14 | The advantage of these is that the length of the path can be used to indicate time taken . |