Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the 1970s Gas Board , Telecom has its hands tied by the regulator : the Office of Telecommunications would take a dim view of it cross-subsidising ISDN installation at the expense of another part of its business . |
| 2 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 3 | An increase in real output per capita may not even increase potential economic welfare if it is accompanied by negative externalities , an increase in the number of hours worked or increased production of investment goods at the expense of consumer goods . |
| 4 | To control blood pressure at the expense of the blood glucose level or with elevated lipid levels does not represent successful treatment . |
| 5 | The ISE is sceptical of these developments , although critics of the ISE argue that it is only interested in large companies and particularly in developing the international equity market at the expense of smaller domestic equities . |
| 6 | We can not simply allow ourselves to cash in on private sector industry at the expense of the many unemployed and low-paid whose living standards will inevitably decline as a result of the spiralling costs of wholesale privatisation . |
| 7 | Cuvier pioneered the role of comparative anatomy as a guide to classification , thereby boosting the role of the museum naturalist at the expense of the collector in the field . |
| 8 | Home ownership Government help has been directed to home owners at the expense of others . |
| 9 | It is well accepted that heavy sheep grazing of Agrostis/ Festuca grass swards in the uplands favours more resilient species , especially Nardus stricta and Juncus squarrosus at the expense of these finer grasses . |
| 10 | For many in North Oxford it will mean paying less for council services at the expense of those who are not as well off . |
| 11 | He is telling the European commission that British Airways offers incentives to travel agents to push B A at the expense of other carriers . |
| 12 | Can the Minister point to any country apart from South Africa where such large sums are spent on a small elite group at the expense of the majority ? |
| 13 | The show of dissent did n't do Foster 's England chances any harm as 72 hours later he was told of his recall by Essex skipper Graham Gouch at the expense of Lancashire 's Phil de Freitas . |
| 14 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is developing its Intel Corp iAPX-86-based MX microcomputers and MIPS R-series RISC-based RM product lines at the expense of Nixdorf 's Targon Unix box , and has cancelled its decision to release a new 660X0-based machine . |
| 15 | Adam Smith 's famous dictum that we should not subsidise grape production in Scotland , does not extend to subsidising wine imports at the expense of the ‘ wine of the country ’ . |
| 16 | It is true that St Bartholemew 's Hospital is threatened by the Government health policy which wants to invest in community care at the expense of some London hospitals . |
| 17 | With just 15% of the vote Labour came a bad third at the last election , but a recent opinion poll , commissioned by the Liberal Democrats , revealed a surge in support for Mr Kent at the expense of Sir William — narrowing the gap between the two parties from 22% to 7% . |
| 18 | The IMF emphasis on export-oriented policies has increased women 's participation in cash crop production at the expense of those who are subsistence farmers . |
| 19 | It is no part of the policy of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 to give security of tenure to a business tenant at the expense of preventing redevelopment ( Adams v Green ( 1978 ) 247 EG 49 ) . |
| 20 | Owen was a staunch supporter of Cuvier 's views on discontinuity , and he successfully emphasized the milk glands at the expense of the egg-laying in order to keep the platypus firmly within the mammals . |
| 21 | It differed from the budget proposed by the President in that it included an additional $4,400 million for domestic spending on education , health and social service programmes at the expense of space and scientific programmes . |
| 22 | Lately this town there 's more layabouts in this town and some and anywhere in Lancashire you do n't , they 're not Lancashire people , oh they 're homeless and they live in , in boarding houses at the expense of er the tax payers |
| 23 | BEFORE RETURNING TO THE MUSIC , LET'S take time out to talk about the sound : does Denon 's painstaking work with these Savoy masters really represent an audible improvement or does it mean — as with some historic classical recordings that have been treated to ‘ NoNOISE ’ or ‘ Cedar ’ — merely reduced surface noise at the expense of the loss of the top end ( important ambient noise , feathery cymbals etc. ) and a tubby overall sound ? |
| 24 | And today , it is our systems 's greed which continues to profit from neocolonial financial and trading relationships at the expense of any hope for sustainable African development . |
| 25 | The extent of the risk to human health posed by the migration of dioxins into food is a controversial one , and it questions once again the extravagance of modern packaging methods at the expense of the environment and health . |
| 26 | There have been significant changes in the UK economy over the last twenty years , with a steady growth of the service sector at the expense of industry . |
| 27 | Later , the point was made that the " development of systematic support for managers in schools has become heavily orientated towards the immediate needs generated by education reforms at the expense of that longer term development of heads and senior staff " ( Wallace and Hall 1989:173 ) . |
| 28 | DEC 's preoccupation with its Alpha machines at the expense of its MIPS line has cost MIPS perhaps its most significant volume outlet besides Compaq Computer Corp , another ACE casualty . |
| 29 | Why is n't there total chaos , why does n't everybody pursue their own self interest at the expense of everybody else , reducing life to a , a state of chaotic erm er , conflict of individuals against each other . |
| 30 | A minute later a low shot from RUC top scorer Love was saved by the keeper White at the expense of a corner . |