Example sentences of "have benefited from the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The court backed him in pursuing payment of redundancy and legal costs by the Scottish Office and in taking the campaign to the public , which has benefited from the dental hospital with 45,000 patient consultations a year .
2 A BR official said : ‘ Allen 's West has benefited from the new timetable during peak hours and now has three trains rather than the previous two , ’ he said .
3 The food manufacturing industry has benefited from the lower costs of the commodities it processes .
4 It is strategically placed between London and Bristol in the M4 Corridor and has benefited from the massive growth of the micro-electronic industry .
5 This was important , as in some stretches of the river Mr Cook 's customers might not otherwise have benefited from the remarkable views he had promised them .
6 Now as a result of that , we always recognize there will be a loss to Shropshire County Council , because we 've benefited from the previous distribution , and as far as we can see in real terms we 've lost about a hundred and thirty thousand as a result of that move of a specific grant into distribution through your revenue support grant .
7 He said that 33 black Mauritanians belonging to FLAM had benefited from the recent amnesties , which were the result of " French pressure " .
8 The Country opposition were also deeply suspicious of the influence of the new financial interest , and a significant number of those who had benefited from the financial revolution of the 1690s were Whigs , many of them Dissenters .
9 His training had benefited from the extra time , he was assured by any superior who could spare the energy to talk to him , and indeed he was an expert radio operator and cipherist , who could also — in theory — kill , survive , and use a parachute .
10 The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion .
11 But we have benefited from the general lowering of prices .
12 If they have since discovered that this contact can be fulfilling and life-enhancing — and this is certainly not always the case — it is because they have benefited from the broader range of experiences which this contact has offered .
13 Large numbers of people have benefited from the positive aspects of many of these policies but the casualty list has also been appalling .
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