Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more significant , perhaps , was an intensification of the philosophy which promoted wealth generating activities at the expense of social programmes . |
| 2 | Chief among these , I would argue , are a too heavy reliance on language , particularly descriptive terminology , a constant preoccupation with classroom and textbook centred examples at the expense of using the rich mathematical resources in an environment , and a sense of rigid , logical class by-class progression resulting probably from the original division into year-based writing groups . |
| 3 | In this way , Franco bought the continued support of the property- owning élite at the expense of his own blue-print for economic recovery . |
| 4 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 5 | A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others . |
| 6 | ‘ It worries me that impresarios are using the Russian label to make money at the expense of companies like us , like the Scottish and Northern Ballet . |