Example sentences of "[prep] [be] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Crown could not afford an absolute loss of revenue , it is clear that this expansion of the waste had to be at the expense of society . |
| 2 | Gray and Jenkins ( 1986 ) conclude that while the FMI has enhanced the status and operation of certain aspects of financial management , notably those relating to the management of costs , this has tended to be at the expense of the integration of strategic management and even of accountability itself . |
| 3 | The accepted explanation was that the capitalist system of production was based on selfishness since only some in the community could prosper , as their prosperity had to be at the expense of others . |
| 4 | Fund accounting is merely one more attempt by accountants to report on a complex reality more sensitively ; although this seems inevitably to be at the expense of general understandability . |
| 5 | Their success appeared to be at the expense of the traditional parties , notably the ruling Socialists . |