Example sentences of "advantage of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another major advantage of bananas over other sweet foods is that they come in their own hermetically sealed biodegradable packaging — the ideal food for when you are on the move . |
| 2 | Other recent flotations might just represent companies ' taking advantage of windows through which to de-gear , rather than waiting for the exits that offer the optimum long-term return . |
| 3 | If you are a stand-alone system then take advantage of programs like Suitcase and Font/DA Juggler but do take the time to read the manuals otherwise you can end up with a worse problem than you started with . |
| 4 | This implies that social and behavioural factors explain the failure of men to survive to later life but biological factors then maintain the mortality advantage of women in later life . |
| 5 | Yet if they press home their advantage of games in hand , they will overtake Blackburn , who have shown a staggering decline recently and could be left to fight for a play-off place . |
| 6 | Middlesbrough will be in a strong position if they take full advantage of games in hand . |
| 7 | He was above the idea of taking advantage of headhunters through accepting free lunches and trips without intending to move : ‘ Time is one 's most valuable commodity . ’ |
| 8 | Many candidates would think nothing of taking advantage of headhunters by accepting a free overseas trip and free entertainment such as drinks , lunch or dinner , whilst having no intention whatsoever of changing jobs . |
| 9 | Finally , we can probably take advantage of variations in brain organization to understand the relationships between structure and function . |
| 10 | Similarly the Esmeraldas smiths took advantage of variations in colour to insert platinum eyes into masks of gold or tumbaga . |
| 11 | A number of short-lived clandestine presses were set up within Russia , and at the same time radical publicists took full advantage of periods of lighter censorship . |
| 12 | They can also play off national governments against one another , taking advantage of discrepancies of company law and taxation policy , and governmental competition to attract investment through regional and industrial policy . |
| 13 | The government also took advantage of successes by the South African cricket team in the cricket world cup in Australia to argue that without reform , South Africa would once again have to withdraw from the international sporting scene . |
| 14 | The cause of the creep is most probably simply that , in the amorphous part of the cellulose , the rather badly stuck hydroxyls take advantage of changes in moisture and temperature to shuffle away from their responsibilities . |
| 15 | Or they may take advantage of visits to dischargers for other purposes to fill a sample bucket at the same time . |
| 16 | One is to study our closest relatives , the monkeys and great apes , a second is to study the way that particular functions , like the visual analysis of form , are done , irrespective of the species involved ; and the third is to take advantage of differences between species and correlate structural with behavioural differences as means of analysing the functions of brain systems . |
| 17 | In owing a duty of undivided loyalty , it could again be argued that the conglomerate is under a duty to take advantage of sources of information reasonably available which would be relevant to the client . |
| 18 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 19 | ‘ Underlying trends are now in the right direction and as conditions in the insurance market improve we are well placed to take advantage of opportunities for profitable growth where this can be achieved while maintaining the quality of our portfolio . |
| 20 | Take advantage of opportunities for training and education offered to advance and improve personal professional standards . |
| 21 | the breaking down of compartmentalisation [ has allowed ] financial intermediaries to take advantage of economies of scale and scope to move towards being ‘ one stop financial supermarkets ’ with a fuller range of financial services provided in-house . |
| 22 | it is able to take advantage of economies of scale , which in turn may call for the establishment of departments of specialists or experts ( eg. research and development , management scientists etc ) ; |
| 23 | Cost leadership may come more through capturing a large-enough share to enable the company to take better advantage of economies of scale than its rivals . |
| 24 | The competition will tell you that their product is fresh , takes advantage of advances in program writing and has a long development life ahead of it . |
| 25 | Those whose educational opportunities have been greater in earlier life may be in a stronger position to take advantage of facilities in the community , as will those with a strong local network . |
| 26 | The parameter b , which characterizes the advantage of defectors against cooperators , is thus the only parameter in our model ; none of our findings are qualitatively altered if we instead set P= , with positive but significantly below unity ( so that is strictly satisfied ) . |
| 27 | Not that this stops the tragic artist from coaxing us into awareness of the normally intolerable , taking advantage of ways in which things terrible in experience become agreeable in imagination . |
| 28 | Vultures are known for their extremely keen eyesight , and their ability to take advantage of thermals with their extensive wings and soar for hours at high altitudes . |
| 29 | Heron ( 1957 ) found that unilaterally presented words were better recognised from the right visual field but that with bilateral presentation there was an advantage of words to the left of fixation . |
| 30 | ONE of the great advantages of villages over cities for chronic insomniacs , such as I am , is that late at night there is nothing to do in a village except read . |