Example sentences of "advantage in [det] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Systems analysis has important advantages in that it can handle both complex biophysical relationships ( which is more difficult in a rigid mathematical programming approach ) and can include the effects of policy instruments and other hitherto exogenous social and economic variables .
2 It also has other economic advantages in that it requires fewer facing bricks than solid walls !
3 One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties .
4 This form of collaboration is said to have several advantages in that it offers greater control over research and development linkage by better managing the interface between public sector research and industry .
5 It also has an advantage in that it can be installed on the smaller air range diving support vessels .
6 As a piece of recording , the Philips set has one advantage in that it makes best use of the excellent John Alldis Choir and puts them well forward , whereas the perfectly good Lyon Opera Chorus is relegated to the middle distance as usual .
7 Opiates , particularly diamorphine , are better at relieving anxiety , but diamorphine has an additional advantage in that it is a vasodilator , it unloads the left ventricle and may help heart failure .
8 Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it .
9 It gives me a tremendous advantage in that I can moor the punt about 15yds back from the top of the shelf , in the shallower water , out of sight of the bream .
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