Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] advantage [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be wondered why this doctrine is retained , but it has great advantages for both the major groups involved — the ministers and the civil servants . |
| 2 | It has many advantages over the traditional ‘ Winchesters ’ with a lower centre of gravity and a carefully controlled flow of glass within the mould so that there are no weak spots or pressure-vulnerable areas . |
| 3 | But it has many advantages over other holographic transform methods . |
| 4 | As an interpretative category , it has important advantages over other social models that we might wish to use . |
| 5 | Population regulation , however , if it has any advantage at all , can only be a long-term one ; it must therefore be a consequence of individual decisions to emigrate , taken on the grounds that conditions will be better elsewhere , not on the grounds that the population level must be kept down in order for the local resources to be conserved . |
| 6 | It is difficult to see , however , that it has any advantage over the leadership approach . |
| 7 | Before the advent of molecular genetics , screening of newborns in the United Kingdom was generally regarded as ethically unsound because no treatment was available ; it offered little advantage to the family other than the possibility of terminating all subsequent male fetuses , more than half of whom would be normal . |
| 8 | It took full advantage of its opponents ' weaknesses . |
| 9 | It had one advantage of which we were aware . |
| 10 | It had three advantages over the submarine system : British launching aircraft already existed whereas the submarines did not ; the American content of the total system could be reduced by manufacture under licence in the United Kingdom ; and the Americans were likely to tie the purchase of Polaris to the mixed-manned Multilateral Nuclear Force that Eisenhower was keen to foist upon NATO . |
| 11 | Another indicator for the future of the book is a growing commitment across all age groups to lifelong self-improvement and a recognition in influential groups such as government and the media that the role of the book is not purely commercial , and that it conveys other advantages to society and must be regarded accordingly . |