Example sentences of "able [to-vb] advantage [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 2 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |
| 3 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 4 | Those who benefited from improved earnings , however , were not the rural poor , but the farmers who were able to take advantage of the opportunities the Green Revolution had to offer . |
| 5 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 6 | The entrepreneurs in this case were able to take advantage of the low costs of the informal sector , but also use the modern facilities of the formal . |
| 7 | Concessionaires usually employ their own staff , but are able to take advantage of the facilities offered by the department store , together with its advertising , and its larger numbers of customers . |
| 8 | The extent to which a child is able to take advantage of the learning opportunities , which are made available within a particular setting on a day-to-day basis , will be a major factor in influencing how much progress occurs . |
| 9 | One researcher was Ignaty Steletsky , who in the 1920s was able to take advantage of the fact that the Moscow Underground was being built . |
| 10 | Instead it is the government of the day which is able to take advantage of the flexibility of the system to impose its definition of a convention at any particular time . |
| 11 | Newton was able to take advantage of the work of Galileo , Kepler and others to construct that comprehensive physics that he published in his Principia in 1687 . |
| 12 | They include the effect of rising divorce rates on the number of one-person households and single-parent families , which disproportionately seek accommodation in the rented sectors because of relatively low average incomes , but are also able to take advantage of the low-cost home ownership schemes introduced by the 1980 Housing Act and largely confined to the urban stress areas . |
| 13 | Finally , firms that do extensive R&D seem to be better able to take advantage of the experience generated by travelling down the learning curve ( see Lieberman , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | A period of anarchy followed , in which the Turks were able to take advantage of the divisions amongst their Christian enemies to raid into both Croatia and the Slovene lands of Carniola . |
| 15 | As there is never enough money to do all the BDA wants to do the Association was fortunate during the years 1982–1988 to be able to take advantage of the Manpower Services Commission 's scheme of placing unemployed people in short-term work for the benefit of the community . |
| 16 | Such systems are able to take advantage of the limited constructions that are found for a specific task and the reduced vocabulary size . |
| 17 | It is hoped that social scientists will not only be able to carry out with greater ease and rapidity those types of computation previously undertaken on mainframe computers but that they may also be able to take advantage of the machines ’ ability to handle graphical information . |
| 18 | ‘ A ’ level entrants to the financial services industry are able to take advantage of the Pre-Associateship Route , introduced in 1991 , which enables them to progress to the Associateship examinations after completing a foundation programme of four Banking Certificate subjects : |
| 19 | In a business sale , the buyer will be less likely to be able to take advantage of the implied warranty , particularly because he may well be as expert as the seller in dealing with the goods which are the subject matter of the contract , and so will not ( or it will not be reasonable for him to ) rely on the seller 's judgment and skill . |
| 20 | Thus during the worst crisis in British industrial history neither the labour movement nor its radical Left were able to take advantage of the situation . |
| 21 | British depot-based fleets are in the enviable position of being able to take advantage of the technology now . |