Example sentences of "[is] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Familiar faces like Merv Hughes and Allan Border will provide the foundation for the new stars to shine … even it 's at the expense of established Test players . |
| 2 | Sometimes this success is at the expense of food production , but more often an increase in productivity is achieved across all crops . |
| 3 | The most common failings are to rely too much on words rather than extensively labelled diagrams , to use technical terms and concepts which the user may not understand , to focus on what it is at the expense of what it does and to fail to separate the needs of the operator from the details which are needed to set up the device , to locate faults , to provide remedies and to provide routine maintenance . |
| 4 | This appears to be a zero-sum game , because what one developing country gains is at the expense of another . |
| 5 | However , this is at the expense of a new problem of economically providing , on the lowest model in the range , all the hardware facilities needed on models at the upper end of the range . |
| 6 | More meaningful results are obtained by producing budgetary accounts that are classified in a way which is specific to the particular service but this is at the expense of a uniform format for budgetary accounting . |
| 7 | Realisation that our affluence in Britain , including mine , is at the expense of the poor in the Third World is a troubling conclusion that demands personal action . |
| 8 | Many of the GPs who are now budget holders are proudly boasting of the better service they can offer patients but all freely admit that it is at the expense of the patients of nonbudget-holding GPs . |
| 9 | Compared with a Butterworth filter of the same order , the cut-off may be steeper near the cut-off frequency but this is at the expense of slightly oscillating transmission in the pass band . |