Example sentences of "gain [noun] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compton has also concluded that decentralization has continued despite the energy crisis , the south is still gaining population at the expense of the north ; East Anglia , the South West and the East Midlands continue to be the fastest growing regions ; and that Wales is about to join them . |
| 2 | These companies are being heavily promoted by Luxembourg advisers , but it still remains to be seen whether they will gain business at the expense of the Netherlands . |
| 3 | As in the Reich , it seems that they had gained votes at the expense of the middle-class Centre Party . |
| 4 | In communal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on Oct. 1 , 1989 , the Republicans gained support at the expense of the two largest parties , especially in the towns ; in municipal elections on Oct. 22 they gained seats on the councils of most major towns in Baden-Württemberg [ for success in Berlin Land elections — see p. 36403 ] . |
| 5 | If the strategy for Bovril Cubes is to gain sales at the expense of Oxo , the Bovril Cube target group will , inevitably , consist primarily of Oxo users . |
| 6 | It might also imply ( what in wartime is plausible at any period of history ) that the executive , in the shape of the panel of the generals , a tight group of only ten at maximum allowing for absentees , gained power at the expense of its larger and more unwieldy constitutional master , the Assembly . |