Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the expense of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There were , I believe , five main reasons why the national daily press was stressed at the expense of radio and local newspapers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 8 | This creates a problem in that there is no justification why a manager 's compensation package should be supplemented at the expense of the corporation or its shareholders . |
| 9 | In their view a major cause of the decline in profits has been the ability of labour , during the post-war years of high employment , to increase its share of value added at the expense of profits . |
| 10 | It was partly by successfully organising joint local production of its exchanges in Ekaterinburg that the firm succeeded at the expense of NEC . |
| 11 | In museum culture the original physical artefact is venerated at the expense of a replica , duplicate , reconstruction , or hologram . |
| 12 | The lawyer may wish to eschew the elevation of efficiency if he thinks it is being pursued at the expense of other desirable goals such as fairness and equality of opportunity , goals which he may feel are more important than efficiency . |
| 13 | A number of economists have placed some of the blame for poor economic performance on a failure to modernize ( there has been a tendency to retain old plants and to support traditional but declining industries , such as textiles ) ; on the emphasis given to maintaining a balance of payments surplus in order to fund overseas military spending and foreign investments , pursued at the expense of economic growth , and on a failure of postwar economic management to manipulate supply as well as demand . |
| 14 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 15 | The syuzhet creates a defamiliarizing effect on the fabula ; the devices of the ryuzhet are not designed as instruments for conveying the fabula , but are foregrounded at the expense of the fabula . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is done at the expense of the external validity , i.e. the applicability of the results to the population as a whole . |
| 18 | Syria was cut off from its finest port and Damascus — the centre of the Muslim Arab nationalist movement opposed to French rule — was weakened at the expense of Beirut and the new Christian-dominated regime . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Thus , a statutory provision allowing recourse to an alternative remedy will not readily be interpreted as requiring the alternative redress to be sought at the expense of an application to a court . |
| 21 | Suggesting that the long-term viability of BC and its privatisation potential could be put at risk by curbs on open-cast operations , Mr Chance added : ‘ Mining communities can not be saved at the expense of the open-cast industry . |
| 22 | Often picked by impoverished Third World workers , it appears on our supermarket shelves and our tables as a polished , insubstantial thing , available only in two or three varieties instead of in thousands , and grown at the expense of the environment . |
| 23 | Second , executive power will have grown at the expense of parliamentary power . |
| 24 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 25 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 26 | Mr John Prescott , the shadow Transport Secretary , said the report showed clearly that safety had ‘ suffered at the expense of commercial considerations ’ . |
| 27 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 28 | Production declined and exports were made at the expense of reserves accumulated in the warehouses . |
| 29 | Most satisfactory for Russia were the gains made at the expense of Turkey . |
| 30 | And in some cases , most strikingly in Normandy , the landed gains of castellans had been made at the expense of the comital demesne . |