Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | My only complaint is that , all too often , these skills are taught at the expense of those natural artistic and creative abilities the child may possess . |
| 2 | Hence we have to adjust our expectations and , rather than blaming others for preventing resolution , accept that some goals are achieved at the expense of others . |
| 3 | Care was taken to make building surveying curricula more apposite to the work of the candidate , the technological aspects being increased at the expense of law and economics . |
| 4 | Vido 's manipulative charm is exercised at the expense of Mira 's verses . |
| 5 | The life style of the bourgeois lady was purchased at the expense of a large class of servants , often prone to sexual depredations , and an equally vulnerable group of prostitutes . |
| 6 | While asleep , Stages 1 , 2 and REM were reduced at the expense of Stages 3 and 4 , which were maintained at baseline levels . |
| 7 | And , as in Bentham 's circular buildings , managerial security is advanced at the expense of liberty , of the freedom of action of those whom managerial staff seek to supervise . |
| 8 | It must be regarded as probable , therefore , that under Aethelbald the Mercian position in areas bordering on other kingdoms was consolidated at the expense of surrounding neighbours . |
| 9 | This evidence is not sufficient to suggest that low rates of sudden deaths in Bangladeshi infants are achieved at the expense of high neonatal mortality . |
| 10 | Such " success " as there may be from legal prohibition of alcohol or other addictive substances is gained at the expense of creating the suffering of " Dry Drunks " . |
| 11 | This voluntary scheme , which gives general practitioners control over budgets to cover prescriptions , specialist outpatient consultations , and elective surgical procedures for their patients , has been embraced with enthusiasm by some general practitioners , but others have been concerned that it could encourage the development of a ‘ two tier ’ service , in which the advantages gained by fundholders for their patients are achieved at the expense of patients in other practices . |
| 12 | In museum culture the original physical artefact is venerated at the expense of a replica , duplicate , reconstruction , or hologram . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This modest success was bought at the expense of mounting employee grievances . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Production declined and exports were made at the expense of reserves accumulated in the warehouses . |
| 17 | This amplification is produced at the expense of energy pumped into the medium via the population inversion of its atoms or molecules . |
| 18 | Undeniably their faith is genuine , but the weakness is that their faith is developed at the expense of their understanding . |
| 19 | Standing in determined opposition to him was G. G. Williams who , anticipating many of the protests of the 1960s ( and later ) , objected that ‘ the parity of esteem is purchased at the expense of the grammar school ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Many of the first colonies were built at the expense of societies the settlers did n't understand because their cultures varied from Earth basic , ’ she said . |
| 21 | There were , I believe , five main reasons why the national daily press was stressed at the expense of radio and local newspapers . |
| 22 | Thus the Roman plan for rectangular temples was generally pseudo-peripteral , wherein the cella was widened at the expense of the peristyle , and often the side ambulatory disappeared and half columns attached to the cella walls lined up with those of the front portico ; an imposing example of this design is the Maison Carrée at Nîmes ( 113 ) . |
| 23 | Anxious that the poorer areas in the east of Paris should have the same facilities as those in the west , the Emperor gave the land at Vincennes to the city and a huge park was constructed at the expense of the privy purse . |
| 24 | However , the struggle was conducted at the expense of the woman worker and , within the family , the family wage system benefited men disproportionately , because they gained the full-time household services of their wives . |