Example sentences of "have [verb] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While the arable area has increased at the expense of ornithologically more interesting permanent grassland , there has been a simultaneous reduction of the one-year ley , usually clover , within the arable system , combined with an increasing use of herbicides . |
| 4 | In developed countries , fat intake has increased at the expense of a reduction in complex carbohydrates . |
| 5 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 6 | Second , executive power will have grown at the expense of parliamentary power . |
| 7 | The currency management was entrusted to a French bank whose shareholders were said to have prospered at the expense of Arab fiscal autonomy . |
| 8 | We 've looked at the expense charge of one pound nineteen , the cost of running a policy taken out each month . |
| 9 | He 'd demanded a man in charge of each wire and Rose had baulked at the expense . |
| 10 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |