Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes one aspect of our being has been developed at the expense of the other . |
| 2 | Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent . |
| 3 | Mind you , some of this performance has been achieved at the expense of portability , such is the need for ruggedness in bass rigs . |
| 4 | Logical coherence has been gained at the expense of empirical relevance . |
| 5 | It will assess the extent to which dependency on international agencies has been established at the expense of indigenous agencies and whether emergency provision has been sustained by the exclusion of developmental aid in a protracted refugee situation . |
| 6 | HE admits that the end product has been improved at the expense of character but quotes the co-op 's slogan : ‘ Consistently better , consistently bitter ’ . |
| 7 | Acoustically , the Takamine has a fairly flat response , with no boomy bass or tinny treble tendencies at all , though the evenness of its tone may have been achieved at the expense of some character . |
| 8 | The overall increase of 2.1 per cent — compared with 2 per cent in grants from the Arts Council in England and Wales — was said to have been achieved at the expense of the SAC 's running costs , which will be limited to an increase of 1.5 per cent . |
| 9 | And in some cases , most strikingly in Normandy , the landed gains of castellans had been made at the expense of the comital demesne . |
| 10 | All the great middle-class moral reforms of the age had been achieved at the expense of pleasure and enjoyment . |
| 11 | Standard and Poor 's cautioned , however , that macro-economic success had been achieved at the expense of widening the gap between rich and poor and through reduced spending on health , education and infrastructure . |
| 12 | All this had been achieved at the expense of the Liberal Party which had monopolized all three areas before 1910 . |
| 13 | These positive aspects of the Michigan law may , however , have been achieved at the expense of simplicity . |
| 14 | Many of the big European names are being churned out by British design teams who have been trained at the expense of the British taxpayer . |
| 15 | Yet , these gains in certainty have been made at the expense of the title and negotiability functions , functions that will continue to be needed for the foreseeable future . |
| 16 | The Victorian pub is now threatened in two ways : because it is not understood as a historic document , and because certain isolated elements in Victorian pub design have been overemphasised at the expense of others . |