Example sentences of "to profit from " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to profit from this trend are Bradford 's Dudley Hill , who , with five members of the English Students World Cup squad in their side , have made an explosive start in the BNFL national league , leading the first division with six wins from six matches at an average of almost 40 points per game . |
| 2 | Lord Winster , the new Minister of Civil Aviation , wrote in an annex to Addison 's paper that the government should retain at least some private investment in the airlines to profit from their interest and experience . |
| 3 | Clubs were better placed than inexperienced individuals to profit from advertising , which began to expand the commercial potential of sport in the 1930s . |
| 4 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 5 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 6 | This , in turn , will make it harder for diggers to profit from the crude — and illegal — looting of ancient sites . |
| 7 | For the dying man to lapse into a state of stupor or incoherence was regarded as a misfortune both for him and for those unable to profit from his words , or even , perhaps , from some shared glimpse of the unseen . |
| 8 | McMahon then robbed Speed deep in City territory to begin the counter-attack from which Quinn scored a thrilling third , and the busy midfielder saved his best pass for the dying minutes when Brennan was on hand to profit from a piercing chip . |
| 9 | First day of three : Leicestershire are 279–2 against Cambridge University AS the weather forecast had been jointly compiled by Harris and Gallup , there was more than sufficient play in Cambridge yesterday for Nigel Briers to hit an effortless century and his fellow Leicestershire batsmen to profit from a true pitch and erratic University bowling . |
| 10 | A CAREER diplomat was jailed for nine months yesterday for using United Kingdom High Commission bank accounts to profit from a currency black market . |
| 11 | It is not our wish to profit from such assignment , and in the unlikely event of our recovering more than such compensation and costs , any excess will be paid to the injured clients . |
| 12 | If it is thought to be preferable , this is for reasons having nothing to do with neutrality , such as a desire to bring the war to a speedy end or not to allow people to profit from wars . |
| 13 | As convicted felons are not allowed to profit from their crimes , then Johnson should not be allowed to benefit . |
| 14 | But back on the marshes and fens , who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation ? |
| 15 | This must have been the only time John ever had his work discussed in detail by a choreographer of Balanchine 's gifts and experience , and although Buckle described him as ‘ looking somewhat quelled ’ his nature was such as to profit from it . |
| 16 | An opportunity to profit from this excellent Savings Plan and benefit from growing financial protection for your family |
| 17 | In 1981 , when Johnstone was still part of the furniture at Ibrox , Bill McMurdo and a local architect Bob Waugh involved him in the launch of Box Office Promotions ( UK ) Ltd a sports and leisure company which aimed to profit from Johnstone 's popularity in the Lanarkshire area . |
| 18 | They are willing to do so because they expect to be paid back , and because they expect to profit from the transaction through the interest they charge on the loan — it would be a strange world if they did n't ! |
| 19 | If we are to profit from an international perspective on curriculum management , we have surely to deepen our questions . |
| 20 | It also happens to have very valuable timber , and the Chilean government is anxious to profit from the dead trees that are interspersed with living ones in the few remaining areas of forest where alerce still occurs . |
| 21 | A non-competitive literacy test ( in Sesotho ) is recommended to be taken at the end of the first cycle or any time thereafter prior to the final examination since mastery of literacy skills is seen as the first priority in primary school education in Lesotho — ‘ if learners are to profit from further opportunities for education in or out of school . ’ |
| 22 | But in many cases the threat of legal action has been enough to stop those few shopkeepers who attempt to profit from glue and solvent sales to solvent misusers . |
| 23 | A company of porcupines crowded themselves together one cold winter 's day so as to profit from one another 's warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death . |
| 24 | It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure . |
| 25 | The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon , the principal export commodity . |
| 26 | The InterCity operation itself , which operates without subsidy , stands to profit from the privatisation proposals , unveiled in a white paper in July . |
| 27 | So there must be doubt about the extent to which their revised choice marks a genuine readiness to profit from extra information about credit costs , rather than mere uncertainty . |
| 28 | The funeral was now becoming a public display of private wealth — a statement of status — rather than a dignified journey to the grave , and there were any number of tradesmen in the private sector eager to cater for the demand and , thereby , to profit from it . |
| 29 | If you want to profit from the world 's most dynamic market , HANNOVER FAIR Industry is a ‘ must ’ as it provides the impetus for innovations in Europe . |
| 30 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |