Example sentences of "benefited from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French financial markets have benefited from deregulation in the 1980s , and the last few years have witnessed an acceleration in financial innovation in France . |
| 2 | Many women have benefited from mifepristone 's availability in France — but even there , not all women want it : according to a spokesman for the makers , about a third in need of abortion opt for a swift operation . |
| 3 | In what sense , if at all , have employees benefited from privatisation ? |
| 4 | I am encouraged to have seen that submissions based on such discussion are increasingly made by counsel and entertained by the courts and your Lordships have in the present appeal benefited from counsel 's industry in this respect . |
| 5 | The Earl has benefited from government grants , by the boom in agriculture and , more profoundly , by a change in public attitude . |
| 6 | Although the waterfront areas , under the auspices of MDC , have clearly benefited from government expenditure , the physical and social infrastructure of the wider city has been neglected . |
| 7 | Some schools had benefited from government funds allocated to implementing the national curriculum , with one reporting a grant of £20,000 over three years . |
| 8 | Golkar , presenting itself as the guarantor of stability and economic growth , was backed by the country 's 4,000,000 civil servants and by the business community , and also polled strongly in rural areas , especially in those regions which had benefited from government development programmes . |
| 9 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and Greens , which had formed a coalition government in Hesse for 14 months up to February 1987 , benefited from pacifist support immediately after the outbreak of the Gulf war . |
| 10 | It has also benefited from protection by the Mexican government of its calving and winter grounds in Baja California . |
| 11 | This locality , which falls within the LDDC area , like Skanska 's large ( and 90% unlet ) Thomas More Square office project on the opposite side of the river , has benefited from development . |
| 12 | However , in the fifteen to twenty-four age group , many of whom had probably benefited from education since 1975 , the figures were 7.7 and 24.7 per cent respectively . |
| 13 | There would , indeed , have been a good economic case for some sharing of the burdens between Boards , since all benefited from standardisation though some incurred larger costs than others . |
| 14 | During 1990 , 450 guests benefited from convalescence at the Home , and the Association has received many letters of appreciation of the good food , the good company and the kind care of the staff . |
| 15 | Oman 's economy benefited from oil price rises following the invasion and some reports estimated that a projected budget deficit for 1990 might be turned into a surplus . |
| 16 | It argued that Africa had hardly benefited from Bank programmes : though exports had improved , there had been no perceptible impact on growth or inflation , and investment had suffered . |
| 17 | About 2.5 million have benefited from tax incentives to encourage employee share schemes . |
| 18 | Employees benefited from Homequity 's guaranteed home sale programme which speeded up the sale and purchase of properties in the old and new locations . |
| 19 | Both men had dealt in junk bond transactions , and it appeared that Bradley had benefited from insider dealing and preferential treatment in his dealings with Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. , a major Wall Street investment house [ see below ] , and Michael Milken , a prominent financier . |
| 20 | Many notables and landowners benefited from incorporation into Jordan . |
| 21 | The same regions that once benefited from growth in these industries have , subsequently , suffered economic decline and depression . |
| 22 | Already we are providing , through the Association 's War Pensions Officer and Area Welfare Officers , support to our sister charities , and in turn we have benefited from co-operation in the design of training courses . |
| 23 | After the UN freeze on Iraqi assets at the time of the Gulf War , this packet of shares has not benefited from voting rights or dividends . |
| 24 | The industry benefited from access to Japan Development Bank loans , and various tax concessions . |
| 25 | Since taking the post , Susan has benefited from training offered by the local authority and will be applying for the next supervisory post that is available . |
| 26 | Likewise , the lives of other soldier-heroes of the period , the Black Prince , du Guesclin , even that of Henry V , although written in the chivalric vein , stress that these men were successful largely because their inherent qualities of leadership had benefited from training and experience . |
| 27 | The interesting fact to note is that dinosaurs soon benefited from bipedality in the same way humans later did — better vision . |
| 28 | These men are members of the anti-semitic Russian Nationalist movement , Pamyet , or memory ; groups like this have benefited from Glasnost too . |
| 29 | Basing its findings largely on other surveys already published , the bulletin concludes that the short-term prospects for the Scottish economy are critically dependent on the export sector which has benefited from sterling 's devaluation since leaving the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 30 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |