Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Reversing its gains of Thursday , the FT-SE slipped back 28.9 to 2697.5 as profit taking dominated at the end of the account .
2 Curative , hospital-based medicine dominated at the expense of prevention , health promotion and community services , and high priority was given to the treatment of short-term episodes of acute illness to the detriment of the care and rehabilitation of the chronically ill .
3 At the time of writing , it has been disclosed at the trial of the former military junta in Buenos Aires that on 5 January 1982 it ‘ set up a working group to analyse the possibility of taking the islands ’ .
4 However , for all the splendours of the Monument Valley scenery and Fonda 's tight-lipped moral integrity , there is a downside to his crusade , which is only won at the cost of the lives of two of his brothers and involves the death of Doc Holliday ( Victor Mature ) , a noble outlaw who gets washed away by bullets and consumption along with the bad elements .
5 He has won the Tories a fourth consecutive term — unprecedented , won at the height of a recession — unprecedented too , and delivered the coup de grace to socialism .
6 As Doctor Who swung into production , envious eyes in the Children 's Department studied its apparently lavish costume and set provisions , distinctly convinced that the programme was being made with an inflated budget won at the expense of cutbacks in standard children 's output .
7 Although the JSP increased its representation in the lower chamber by 53 seats and its share of the vote by more than 7 per cent , much of its success was won at the expense of the other opposition parties , all of which suffered a loss of support .
8 Following extensive refurbishment , which includes shop floor reorganisation , a new lighting system and distinctive new green shelving , St George 's Gallery Books reopened at the beginning of the summer .
9 As you will have picked up , in my opinion fundamentalism is a dangerous enemy which has to be attacked at the level of the mind and of the heart .
10 The four , of Bangladeshi origin , were returning a video to a store when they were attacked at the junction of Commercial Road and Deancross Street .
11 I had one suitcase , containing my things plus the knitted samples and garments and on several occasions this had to be unpacked at the start of the workshop and repacked at the end !
12 Each night the Falcons depart from over 130 major market areas , jetting packages to a computerised sorting centre at Memphis , where they are sorted at the rate of 10,000 per hour .
13 At the National Library of Medicine ( NLM ) an early CAI program was designed at the beginning of the seventies in conjunction with the George Washington University Medical Centre .
14 The gear was specially designed at the request of Prince 's recording company , Paisley Park .
15 The proclamation followed approval on Oct. 20-27 by the highest state body , the unicameral National Assembly ( Orzággyülés ) , elected for a five-year term , of a new transitional constitution and electoral law which introduced a multiparty democratic system ( hitherto the sole legal party had been the Hungarian Socialist Worker 's Party , reorganised at the beginning of October as the Hungarian Socialist Party ) .
16 The Union reorganised at the request of , and for the benefit of , its employees .
17 The strength which seemed to be stressed at the beginning of the campaign was his niceness .
18 The first of the themes I want to mention — a resolute opposition to the psychologism of Mill and others — is stressed at the beginning of each series of lectures .
19 We have already stressed at the end of Chapter 6 how important it is to record your daily weight and also to chart it and plot it on a monthly graph .
20 With all the work at home — cleaning , washing , mending , ironing — Janice too feels stressed at the end of the day .
21 There were , I believe , five main reasons why the national daily press was stressed at the expense of radio and local newspapers .
22 If a company does wish to use ROI to evaluate managers ' short-term performance and those managers are in a position to influence significant investment decisions , then , where the manager 's short-term performance is stressed at the expense of his investment performance , there is a danger that he will restrict investment to increase his ROI .
23 In addition , the physician made a personal assessment as to whether or not the patient seemed to be psychologically stressed at the time of the visit ; the physician 's evaluation of the patient 's status was recorded as ‘ stressed ’ or ‘ unstressed ’ .
24 This is because in the first case the interest earned at the end of the first month can be reinvested in the second month ; in the second case , the whole interest does not accrue until the end of the second month and so is not available for reinvestment until then .
25 The fourth way in which the underclass is immobilized at the bottom of our society has been through the spread of means-tested assistance , which has a devastating effect on the initiative of people on low incomes .
26 St Michael 's Church — ‘ a gem of Baroque Moravian architecture ’ — was firmly shut and St Wenceslas Cathedral , founded in 1109 and rebuilt at the end of the last century on a vast neo-Gothic scale , was dark , impressive and so cold inside it made your head ache .
27 Just knock down any scheme you do n't happen to like and have it rebuilt at the expense of the public purse , ’ says independent property consultant Jonathan Landes .
28 The more serious charge of " co-authorship of genocide " had been substituted at the request of the prosecution on Feb. 1 on the strength of evidence which had emerged during the trial , notably an eyewitness account of Dinca personally calling for troops to be ordered to shoot demonstrators in Bucharest on Dec. 22 .
29 In the Republic , slowed down by the roads , they took a detour , turned left at Manorhamilton , followed the Bonet river , peeped at the old great mansions in the trees , dreamed up a whole world of the madly rich lurking in this lovely countryside , their children educated at the Convent of the Little Daughters of the Wealthy which they placed on Inisfree , serenely sited on the gleaming waters of Lough Gill .
30 He was educated at the University of Leiden between 1747 and 1749 , and then entered the family 's banking business .
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