Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangest of all is the fact that the art itself suffers by this treatment , as the circumstances surrounding the paintings and what they signify are examined perhaps at the expense of the technical representations . |
| 2 | It says Windows NT revenue will be won primarily at the expense of proprietary systems — which will slip from 29% to 22% revenue market share — and other network operating systems such as OS/2 . |
| 3 | It says Windows NT revenue will be won primarily at the expense of proprietary systems — which will slip from 29% to 22% revenue market share — and other network operating systems such as OS/2 . |
| 4 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |
| 5 | It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education . |
| 6 | All members of the central team at Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) were severely stretched in terms of both time and the range of roles they were expected to encompass , and it was therefore inevitable that some aspects of their job could be successfully accomplished only at the expense of others . |
| 7 | However , it must be recognised that at the current level of terrorist threat , full accompaniment of all patrols could be achieved only at the expense of aborting necessary anti-terrorist operations with a consequent increase in terrorist activity . |
| 8 | This was achieved often at the expense of those whom Gladstone 's political intuition told him were the " natural leaders of the nation ; his second ministry ( 1880–84 ) was barren by comparison . |