Example sentences of "have taken advantage " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( One has taken advantage of a night call ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One of the few American dealers to take an interest in British Romanticism , Richard L. Feigen has taken advantage of the excellent exhibition of Sir Thomas Lawrence 's work at the Mellon Center at Yale to mount his own show , coupling Lawrence with Sir David Wilkie , an artist barely known to Americans . |
| 5 | The company has taken advantage of the exemption from presenting its own profit and loss account . |
| 6 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 7 | It is an organism that has taken advantage of a man-made ecological niche , created in buildings ' water systems . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't feel anyone here has taken advantage of your grandmother , Matthew . |
| 9 | The fact that a person you trusted has taken advantage and gone into your home uninvited . |
| 10 | But he was so close , his other hand pulling her hard against his naked chest , his face so near to her own that it was difficult for her to breathe — so difficult that she had to open her mouth to draw in air only to find that he 'd taken advantage of the opportunity to deepen his kiss into one of familiarity . |
| 11 | It was his habit to go for a run round his island every day before breakfast , and that morning , because rain was forecast for the rest of the day , he 'd taken advantage of the brief spell of fine weather early on to gather up driftwood from the beach after his run . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development . |
| 15 | Only now did it occur to her how easily he could have taken advantage of the situation . |
| 16 | Necessarily , as my hon. Friend the Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) is my parliamentary private secretary , he will have taken advantage of the opportunity of briefing . |
| 17 | He could have taken advantage . |
| 18 | All boasted the finest state-of-the-art recording equipment — a development largely afforded by having taken advantage of the Government 's 100 per cent tax allowance on any equipment investment . |
| 19 | Having taken advantage of 100pc relief he claims they not only bought tackle which ‘ has mainly stood idle ever since ’ but did so with borrowed money on which they are still paying interest 10 years on . |
| 20 | Mr Holmes a Court is thought to have taken advantage of the share 's rapid progress , selling his 2 per cent stake . |
| 21 | Khartoum 's offensive is thought by observers to have taken advantage of a rebel rift last August over alleged human rights abuses . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But Swainson does not seem to have taken advantage of the ease and freedom which the new technique could afford . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Poland had taken advantage of the chaos in revolutionary Russia to launch an offensive to seize Kiev in the Ukraine . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Isobel had taken advantage of this proximity . |
| 30 | 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 . |