Example sentences of "advantages [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr De Haan , who is also chairman of Saga , said the group could not enjoy one of the most important advantages of being publicly quoted — using its shares to fund acquisitions — because the family was determined not to dilute its controlling interest . |
| 2 | The advantages of being in a club of cells do n't stop with size . |
| 3 | The advantages of being a non-owner |
| 4 | Here the owners saw the advantages of being close to their raw material of steel , their power supply from coal , and their markets in Glasgow and along the Clyde valley . |
| 5 | In sum : the classical law of trusts had already lost the advantage of capacity , but it retained the advantages of being bound to neither testamentary heir , nor form , nor formulary procedure . |
| 6 | The advantages of being conspicuous , and thus rapidly impressing predators with one 's distastefulness , outweigh the risk of being eaten before the message is conveyed . |
| 7 | It has the advantages of being very precise and of reflecting the social reality of the operation of the administration of law and order . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gillian 's always been convinced I 'm a complete nut , and one of the advantages of being a known nut is that one can always get people to believe one 's acted in a nutty way . ’ |
| 11 | The 1633 ‘ Uyttenbogaert ’ fits that bill with the additional advantages of being both a representation of an important figure in Dutch religious history ( although the Rijksmuseum already has a portrait of him by Rembrandt 's contemporary Jacob Backer ) and universally accepted as authentic by the members of the Rembrandt Research Project , some of whom are Rijksmuseum curators . |
| 12 | The Provo , Utah company says the addition of the software will make networked applications simpler to write as well as easier to update and maintain , without the need for major rewrites , and that applications based on HD-DOMS technology will have the advantages of being interoperable across diverse computing environments and tightly integrated into NetWare 's distributed network services . |
| 13 | Some countries like Malaysia have , however , managed to hang on to the advantages of being early recipients of such investments by virtue of their installed base of experienced workers who could help attract later entrants . |
| 14 | One of the advantages of being in government is that measures can be initiated that begin to shape public opinion . |
| 15 | In the case of holiday firms the main element here would seem to be the financial advantages of being part of a larger conglomerate grouping . |
| 16 | Many people felt that the advantages of being disabled not only cancelled out any disadvantages there might be but actually outweighed them . |
| 17 | A deaf person spoke extensively of the advantages of being in charge . |
| 18 | However , the advantages of being able to store and retrieve information , merge scanned graphics and logos and apply numerous special graphics effects has allowed bureaux to charge a premium for this sort of service . |
| 19 | The advantages of being able to deploy the micro-budget came from the fact that the case manager was both the person undertaking the assessment , and the direct worker who understood local opportunities . |
| 20 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 21 | The advantages of being able to run baits out to any spot within range of your radio signal are obvious even to an objector and to sit on a reservoir bank as electro-man catches pike on free-lined herrings at 200 yards , whilst my weapon hangs limp in the still air waiting for a stiff breeze has been frustrating . |
| 22 | Recruitment will ideally contain enough information to convince the taxi trade of the benefits of strong membership when dealing with representation at local level , and long-term advantages of being a member of the G M B when dealing with national issues . |
| 23 | The department enjoys the advantages of being a compact and friendly department of about one hundred and fifty undergraduate students , whilst belonging to a large Faculty of Science and Engineering . |
| 24 | That has the double advantages of being |
| 25 | One of the advantages of being a vet is that we can get out of almost anything by pleading an emergency . |
| 26 | So they have all the advantages of being indoors and outdoors at the same time , making performances at Garsington a unique experience . |
| 27 | However , the organizational advantages of being able to sample at a regular interval are so considerable that such anxieties are often set aside . |
| 28 | Although only financial control is centralised , IDG reaps some advantages from being a global group . |
| 29 | Some patients seemed to gain psychological advantages from being ill with their neuroses , and were peculiarly difficult to cure . |
| 30 | However , there are also advantages in being of this gender . |