Example sentences of "have taken advantage [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an organism that has taken advantage of a man-made ecological niche , created in buildings ' water systems . |
| 2 | One of the few American dealers to take an interest in British Romanticism , Richard L. Feigen has taken advantage of the excellent exhibition of Sir Thomas Lawrence 's work at the Mellon Center at Yale to mount his own show , coupling Lawrence with Sir David Wilkie , an artist barely known to Americans . |
| 3 | It was his habit to go for a run round his island every day before breakfast , and that morning , because rain was forecast for the rest of the day , he 'd taken advantage of the brief spell of fine weather early on to gather up driftwood from the beach after his run . |
| 4 | Of the latter , the Cirl Bunting does not appear to have taken advantage of the increasing scrub , possibly because much of it is on north-facing slopes , and it has now declined in numbers . |
| 5 | Her last book , A Memoir of the Late Mrs. Henrietta Fordyce , was published anonymously in 1823 , evidently in an attempt to silence rumours that she had taken advantage of a generous elderly relative . |
| 6 | Esther Ward had more reason to be ashamed than her vulnerable sister Elizabeth , for she had taken advantage of the forbidden love which had grown between Elizabeth and Richard , and she had never once opened her heart to the innocent girl-child who was born out of that love . |
| 7 | Poland , too , was hard hit by the Depression and , in spite of the developing trade war , Germany had taken advantage of the weak Polish mark to trade at advantageous rates and to become Poland 's main trading partner . |
| 8 | Some governors saw the ‘ native aristocracy ’ as a counterweight to upwardly-mobile Low Country families , many of them non-Goyigama , who had taken advantage of the commercial and educational opportunities of British rule . |
| 9 | But what if he had taken advantage of an accidental blaze to kill Hilda ? |
| 10 | Illegal counterfeit manufacturers have taken advantage of a burgeoning circular trade between E C countries in pharmaceuticals . |
| 11 | However , building societies have taken advantage of the new regulations which allow them to raise 40% of funds on the wholesale markets , and are intent on maintaining their market share by encroaching on areas of lending business which traditionally belonged to banks . |
| 12 | These are 6.35mm ( 1/4in ) and 8mm ( 5/16in ) and many of the larger narrow Delta designs have taken advantage of the additional strength offered by such sizes in the 2.5metre lengths . |
| 13 | More than 70 FSD holders have taken advantage of the generous exemptions from selected MBA programmes under the Lombard Scheme . |
| 14 | It is not surprising that some viruses have taken advantage of the sexual act as a vehicle for their transmission , but , while bacteria such as gonococci , treponemes , and the organisms responsible for the tropical sexually transmitted diseases have become so specialized that non-venereal transmission is extremely rare , the sexually transmitted virus infections , with the exception of genital warts , are frequently transmitted in other ways as well . |