Example sentences of "taken advantage " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , many breweries have taken advantage of such requirements to completely remodel their historic pubs . |
| 2 | Those who have n't taken advantage of early season low prices still have to take their hard-earned rest . |
| 3 | Mr Holmes a Court is thought to have taken advantage of the share 's rapid progress , selling his 2 per cent stake . |
| 4 | Mr Gunter Wendland said top party members had enjoyed unjustified privileges , enriched themselves , taken advantage of their positions and ‘ squandered national wealth ’ . |
| 5 | At the other end of the age range employees who have not taken advantage of the incentives to contract out of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) should do so before they dwindle away altogether . |
| 6 | And they had fought for their country in 1939 when the Irish Republic remained neutral which was , after all , just what one could expect of rebels who had taken advantage of Britain 's involvement in the First World War to stage the 1916 Easter Rising . |
| 7 | In their view , the cowardly IRA had taken advantage of the fact that Britain was involved in a world war to stage their rebellion and to murder Protestants . |
| 8 | Despite a £750,000 Government campaign , only 31,942 overseas residents have taken advantage of legislation giving the vote to expatriates who have lived in Britain at any time during the past 20 years . |
| 9 | Obviously , I do not know the answer , nor do I trust the American claim that only one in 10 therapists over there has taken advantage of the opportunities afforded . |
| 10 | Illegal counterfeit manufacturers have taken advantage of a burgeoning circular trade between E C countries in pharmaceuticals . |
| 11 | Khartoum 's offensive is thought by observers to have taken advantage of a rebel rift last August over alleged human rights abuses . |
| 12 | The river also provided a tremendous variety of fish and certainly the Millers would have taken advantage of this from the Garden frontage . |
| 13 | Russian designers have certainly taken advantage of anything they could learn from the West . |
| 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 . |
| 15 | She does n't like to be taken advantage of . ’ |
| 16 | ( One has taken advantage of a night call ) . |
| 17 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 18 | the food basket ( i.e. rationed food ) is no longer taken advantage of in full by the poorer segments of the urban population simply because they can not afford it any more . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a sad fact that Celtic have taken advantage of their top players , ’ he claimed , in his ghost-written biography , ‘ The kind of players who have supported Celtic and been really loyal to the club have been the ones who have suffered the most . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Poland had taken advantage of the chaos in revolutionary Russia to launch an offensive to seize Kiev in the Ukraine . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However Japan and Iceland have taken advantage of a loophole in the regulation which says that a certain number of whales can be killed for scientific purposes . |
| 24 | Isobel had taken advantage of this proximity . |
| 25 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Those who could read may have taken advantage of some of the ideas of a local Elizabethan agricultural writer , Leonard Mascall of Plumpton , who wrote three textbooks on the arts of husbandry ; most farmers probably continued much as their forbears had done , producing a growing farming surplus more by accident than by conscious design . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Accordingly , proper legal advice should be taken to ensure all protection available is actually taken advantage of . |
| 30 | Entree choices like grilled red mullet or prawns , when available , should be taken advantage of . |