Example sentences of "advantage of [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offering consists of conversion tools that enable X applications now hosted under Unix to migrate them to NT — Congruent is developing NT implementations of the programming libraries and the X sample applications , including Xterm , enhanced to take advantage of advanced features of NT . |
| 2 | The offering consists of conversion tools that enable X applications now hosted under Unix to migrate them to NT — Congruent is developing NT implementations of the programming libraries and the X sample applications , including Xterm , enhanced to take advantage of advanced features of NT . |
| 3 | The company believes the new interface helps users to take advantage of new technologies at their own pace , while protecting their investments in applications , data and training . |
| 4 | Although a large proportion of Karavas were poor , some members of this caste successfully took advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities within the expanding market economy . |
| 5 | The extreme nature of the damage seen in the diurnal raptors is matched to a considerable degree in some of the owls , and both approach the degree of damage done by mammalian carnivores ( Fig. 3.4 ) , which have the added advantage of crushing teeth by which they break up their prey before ingestion ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Another advantage of small chips with few address lines is that each cell of a chip only stores a very crude fragment of knowledge about the image on the retina . |
| 7 | Snow and Hofnagel-Höhle ( 1978 ) showed the advantage of adolescent learners over adults for learners of Dutch , but add that older learners have an advantage over the very young in learning rule-governed aspects of the language , though their teenage group were superior to the adults . |
| 8 | It was a plain , basic , rock-bottom hatchback , but it would do fine for the distance and had the extra advantage of childproof locks on the rear doors . |
| 9 | This new research initiative indicates the Council 's commitment to funding projects that will help information users of all kinds to take advantage of recent developments in information technology . |
| 10 | Some work of my own which uses the telephone and takes advantage of recent advances in discourse analysis will be presented , and the idea of a communicative support system will be put forward as a possible explanation of the findings obtained . |
| 11 | Besides entailing bearer form ( hence attractive to some types of investor ) lack of registration , disclosure and prospectus requirements also makes eurobond finance more flexible , and so allows borrowers both to take advantage of temporary shifts in relative yields , and to respond quickly to market demand . |
| 12 | LASMO has the strength and the determination to take advantage of good opportunities in the future , for the benefit of all its shareholders . |
| 13 | In examining the pay advantage of married men over bachelors , we tentatively concluded that for men , but not women , acquiring a spouse leads to higher pay , and perhaps productivity — an indirect contribution to the economy of a wife 's domestic work . |
| 14 | The canal took 18 years to complete , twice as long as Telford had forecast , and cost more than double what he had estimated , but it was an outstanding engineering achievement for the time , even though the actual length of genuine canal that had to be dug was only 21 miles , since the navigable channel took advantage of existing lochs along the glen . |
| 15 | Propensity to take an unfair advantage of available opportunities by individuals or small groups who lead the change . |
| 16 | Propensity to take an unfair advantage of available opportunities by those who lead the change . |
| 17 | These are companies which run or control economic activity in more than one country and can therefore , in locating new investment or abandoning old plants , take advantage of geographical differences between countries in the costs of production . |
| 18 | Spreads are designed to take advantage of anticipated changes in the relative prices of two futures . |
| 19 | Land with the benefit of detailed planning approval will normally provide purchasers with the advantage of detailed plans for the development of a site . |
| 20 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 21 | Inter-bank lending has grown over the years as money markets have become deregulated and as deposits are moved from one currency to another to take advantage of different rates of interest between different countries . |
| 22 | In the discount market the Bank of England takes advantage of day-to-day flows of funds between the public and private sectors to indicate the way in which it wishes to see short-term interest rates move . |
| 23 | Housing all of the traditional Central Bank functions under one roof has the advantage of considerable economies of scale in collecting and analysing data and the interdependencies of departments . |
| 24 | The weather can upset the best laid plans , but the man who is ahead on his work and has his equipment ready in good order can take quick advantage of short spells of good weather and keep his losses to the minimum . |
| 25 | During the 1920s business travellers took advantage of improved facilities on the railways : businessmen and women relax in the lounge of the LMS ‘ Royal Scot ’ , 1928 . |
| 26 | Intel says the compiler enables systems developers to take advantage of superscalar characteristics like scheduling multiple instructions per clock cycle . |
| 27 | The advantages of immediate estimates of the consequences of any proposed set of grade boundaries , in terms of changes in grade numbers both overall and by function and location , and in terms of the likely cost over the forthcoming years , are obvious and considerable . |
| 28 | This self-programming goes on continuously with an implicit acknowledgment of the need for triggers and the relative advantages of various kinds of stores and stored materials . |
| 29 | These development strategies should seek to preserve an acceptable balance of the various priorities , now in my position statement I set out the role and general advantages of new settlements as part of a development strategy in satisfying housing and employment needs of an area . |
| 30 | Gardeners have been inviting the public to look round their allotments to show off the advantages of organic methods of growing vegetables . |