Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [adj] advantage " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 2 | Long drawn out and unpredictable as the process may be , it has one great advantage for the policy-maker . |
| 3 | If it has one significant advantage , other than its relatively low cost , it is in its ability to grow back into the complete XPS system should the user ever require such capabilities . |
| 4 | If we feel sorry for the dying cat that can not understand what is happening to it , we should remember that it has one enormous advantage over us : it has no fear of death , which is something we humans must all carry with us throughout our long lives . |
| 5 | ‘ But it has one enormous advantage over Bedfordshire Comprehensive . ’ |
| 6 | Despite the present bleak , prairie-like appearance of much of East Anglia , it has two major advantages for the field archaeologist . |
| 7 | Although the drawing program 's technique is trickier to get to grips with than the painting program 's , it has two main advantages . |
| 8 | Ideal for the ram-air inflatable ‘ Soft ’ kites which depend on flexibility of the surface and absolute solidity of the non-porous sail material , it has another great advantage . |
| 9 | If a housing association becomes too big , it loses those inbuilt advantages . |
| 10 | Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ . |
| 11 | It claims two specific advantages over competing products : the lowest cost per port , and the fastest aggregate throughput of comparable products , claims based on the architecture that the chip set uses . |