Example sentences of "[noun prp] have benefited from " in BNC.

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1 Pioneer frame helps disabled child to walk An 11-year-old girl from Middlesbrough has benefited from a revolutionary surgery technique , developed in Siberia , and now in use at the town 's general hospital .
2 Exactly 40 years separate the shots , which show just how much Puerto Rico has benefited from its own ‘ industrial revolution ’ .
3 But Dexter knew Blanche had benefited from a growing friendship with a woman she had met on a management course at the police college at Bramshill — a former commander in the Met who had taken to lecturing after a heart attack .
4 Even the small river Slea had been made navigable for light craft and Sleaford had benefited from ‘ a cheap and easy transit for corn , coal , timber , stone , lime and other merchandise , to and from Boston , Lincoln and other places ’ .
5 Of course Britain has benefited from black and Asian ( and Greek and Italian and Arab and Jewish and Irish and … ) immigration .
6 A BR official said : ‘ Allen 's West has benefited from the new timetable during peak hours and now has three trains rather than the previous two , ’ he said .
7 Both men had dealt in junk bond transactions , and it appeared that Bradley had benefited from insider dealing and preferential treatment in his dealings with Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. , a major Wall Street investment house [ see below ] , and Michael Milken , a prominent financier .
8 Since taking the post , Susan has benefited from training offered by the local authority and will be applying for the next supervisory post that is available .
9 Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said .
10 London has benefited from this in the past .
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