Example sentences of "[pron] the benefit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony gave me the benefit of his wisdom as we stood on the edge of a mile-wide snow field and waved goodbye to Hafpor . |
| 2 | ‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 3 | Not being an obsessive gives me the benefit of clear sight . |
| 4 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 5 | But give me the benefit of the biochemical doubt , for that is perhaps not , except amongst professional biochemists , the most important question . |
| 6 | It 's nice to know that you 're giving me the benefit of the doubt . ’ |
| 7 | Ca n't you give me the benefit of the doubt ? |
| 8 | She thought about that one for a second , then decided to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 9 | The costs and expenses of such negotiation will be borne by the party to whom the benefit accrues . |
| 10 | To give them the benefit of the doubt , this may well be necessitated by their unique position , but at times it appears alarmingly like arrogant behaviour . |
| 11 | The career support scheme , which would be voluntary , would put people seeking advice in touch with others who had already experienced their particular problem and could give them the benefit of their knowledge . |
| 12 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
| 13 | He would give them the benefit of his theories that letting their hair down at pop concerts and football matches would be a therapeutic and profitable use of their leisure time . |
| 14 | Houseplants , like the rest of us , enjoy a summer holiday , so give them the benefit of a spell in the fresh air — they 'll love it . |
| 15 | He indicated that , without specific application to children 's hearings , the nature of the children 's hearings system ‘ leaves [ it ] outside the benefit of this Bill ’ , and he added : ‘ It would be wrong to deny them the benefit of the Bill when , if they had committed serious offences and appeared before the courts , they would have had its protection . ’ |
| 16 | A good example of this is provided by the reaction provoked by the influx of the Palatines , fleeing religious persecution in Germany , and the Whig ministry 's decision to allow them the benefit of naturalisation in 1709 . |
| 17 | We get to know people by accepting them , by trusting them — the opposite of doubt — and by " giving them the benefit of the doubt " indeed , unless exceedingly strong evidence to the contrary presents itself . |
| 18 | Why deny them the benefit of self respect and a sense of purpose , which training on such a scheme would create . |
| 19 | And perhaps because of Chrysler 's ignominious retreat from our only volume car manufacturing plant , we spared the cars nothing — never once gave them the benefit of the doubt in the sort of conditions which could tear a wheel off a less rugged vehicle . |
| 20 | They said they 're going to take ten days to make up their mind Lynda so we 'll give them the benefit of the doubt . |
| 21 | There at the start of the working day , giving you , you 've got ta say that next step and tell them , okay , if you can say so what , you have n't told them the benefit . |
| 22 | Is n't it usual to at least give someone the benefit of a hearing before passing judgement , Dr Grant ? ’ |
| 23 | This was to have been changed by clause 54(4) under which the benefit received was to be assessed at the arm 's length price which an ordinary member of the public would have paid for that service . |
| 24 | Section 743(5) states that in any case where an individual has for the purposes of s739 power to enjoy income of a person abroad by reason of his receiving a benefit from the trust ( hence giving rise to a tax charge under TA 1988 , s742(2) ( c ) ) , the individual shall be chargeable to income tax under s739 for the year of assessment in which the benefit is received . |
| 25 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 26 | By leasing he could not only spread the payments , but either enjoy for himself the benefit of a 100 per cent tax write-off on the asset of the plane in the first year , or come to some arrangement with a financier , who would build the tax deduction into the price . |
| 27 | Success in this field is going to become even more important as we move into the 1990s and beyond and I hope that in this book I 've been able to give you the benefit of my experience , to pass on the kind of backstage know-how that can make that vital difference between winning and losing . |
| 28 | Our Higher Rate Deposit Account now offers you the benefit of tiered interest rates . |
| 29 | Our Capital Advantage account now offers you the benefit of tiered interest . |
| 30 | We have made some important alterations to your Policy to give you the benefit of cover which is right up-to-date |