Example sentences of "[adv] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dynastic concord and family harmony were , however , bought somewhat at the expense of the two princes ' subjects . |
| 2 | This change took place almost entirely at the expense of ‘ sole principal ’ practices . |
| 3 | Some opponents of the regime expressed scepticism at the proposed reforms and the adoption of liberalism , apparently at the expense of the long-held official ideology of " Mobutism " under which the President embodied the party and the state . |
| 4 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 5 | As such , their own life-styles , societies , and schools have been relatively protected , but perhaps at the expense of political action . |
| 6 | Strangest of all is the fact that the art itself suffers by this treatment , as the circumstances surrounding the paintings and what they signify are examined perhaps at the expense of the technical representations . |
| 7 | The required duetting gelled pleasingly , if perhaps at the expense of individuality , although two items — a gutsy blues improvisation and that old chestnut Sixteen Tons — still brought out some steel . |
| 8 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 9 | Other theorists ( e.g. Mackintosh and Reese 1979 ) ( see also Wagner 1981 ) attribute the effect to competition between stimuli at a perceptual level , suggesting that because of some limited capacity mechanism , attention can be paid to one component only at the expense of that paid to the other . |
| 10 | Now the company needs an additional £1 million , which its backers the British Technology Group and Prutec , the venture capital fund set up by the Prudential Assurance company , say they will give — but only at the expense of an ambitious programme of research . |
| 11 | Whatever position I adopted seemed to be the wrong one , and it was possible for certain parts of my body to be relaxed and at rest only at the expense of certain other parts . |
| 12 | Those who have recourse to the deus ex machina of lethal rays or thunderbolts from outer space may incline to the former view , but only at the expense of disregarding the abundant evidence in the stratigraphic record of a correlation between mass extinctions and physical events on earth ( Hallam , 1981c ) . |
| 13 | However , such a transfer can happen only at the expense of the central authority . |
| 14 | Therefore an exchange rate will be established at which capital account transactions offset the current account balance , but the demand and supply of currency may be equated ( i.e. there should be no need for official financing ) only at the expense of large fluctuations in exchange rates . |
| 15 | With the national rate of population growth running at under 0.2 per cent a year , population redistribution has virtually become a ‘ zero-sum game ’ , whereby any increase in one place can take place only at the expense of population levels in another place . |
| 16 | There is nothing but House and Seven , hence the House can grow only at the expense of the Seven . |
| 17 | As resource allocation is a ‘ zero sum game ’ ( that is , authorities can gain only at the expense of others ) it seems essential to be able to explain why different formulas produce different results in terms other than the composition of the formulas . |
| 18 | ‘ Authorities can gain only at the expense of others . |
| 19 | All members of the central team at Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) were severely stretched in terms of both time and the range of roles they were expected to encompass , and it was therefore inevitable that some aspects of their job could be successfully accomplished only at the expense of others . |
| 20 | ARC 's leading boat , the Kelsall catamaran Manx Cat completed the 3,600-mile passage in 14 days 17 hr , 59 min 42 sec , but only at the expense of hundreds of hours motoring , arriving on 10 December . |
| 21 | Investment in the military by a state enhances its security only at the expense of its neighbours . |
| 22 | Cashier services are under more and more pressure and , although sometimes they are given assistance , it is only at the expense of other work . |
| 23 | However , it must be recognised that at the current level of terrorist threat , full accompaniment of all patrols could be achieved only at the expense of aborting necessary anti-terrorist operations with a consequent increase in terrorist activity . |
| 24 | Secondly , the suppression may conceivably have safeguarded somebody 's rights at an unknown future date — but only at the expense of an immediate disservice to other interested parties . |
| 25 | During the subsequent weeks the haematocrit usually stabilises at a low level , but only at the expense of a two- to three-fold compensatory expansion of erythropoiesis . |
| 26 | Another thing , sociology would seem to be saying that those who have wealth and do well do so at the expense of the poor unfortunate . |
| 27 | However , the world 's preponderance of very poor people want to get richer as quickly as they can and are probably not too concerned if they do so at the expense of the environment . |
| 28 | If a meme is to dominate the attention of a human brain , it must do so at the expense of ‘ rival ’ memes . |
| 29 | It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education . |
| 30 | To put it slightly differently , it is important to understand that the poverty of the Third World and the wealth of the West are the outcome of an interlinked process in which the rapid and massive growth in Western prosperity has occurred and continues to do so at the expense and underdevelopment of the Third World . |