Example sentences of "it at [art] expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consistent with her belief that the single market is the key to European prosperity and ‘ closer integration ’ as well as ‘ an example and opportunity ’ to Eastern Europe , Mrs Thatcher stressed it at the expense of Delors and the Social Charter — for which she predicted ‘ considerable difficulties ’ from many countries when detailed proposals emerged . |
| 2 | Liberty , that is , to be like the bus boy from Ohio , liberty to realise any dream , be it at the expense of others , which , in this land-of-the-free , it inevitably has to be . |
| 3 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |
| 4 | Individuals were given the opportunity to achieve much for themselves but too often they did it at the expense of others . |
| 5 | And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre . |
| 6 | But the level of activity is not constant so either the permanent staff have to deal with it at the expense of other work , which leads to chaos ; or , temporaries have to be employed , which again leads to chaos . |
| 7 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |