Example sentences of "of [noun] at the expense " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He combined a cold approach with references to emotive issues like the Boer War , he spoke in a matter-of-fact way , he made clever use of sarcasm at the expense of opponents , and he recognized the value of a decisive attitude that would be firmly grasped by a party audience . |
| 2 | Access problems are increasingly centred around environmental issues , as politicians see mileage in the wellbeing of beetles at the expense of the wellbeing of people . |
| 3 | Nevertheless to consider the National Curriculum as a list of subjects runs the danger of expressing it in a way which over-emphasises information and a narrow range of skills at the expense of the development of a full range of socially useful skills , attitudes and ideas , which is usually the concern of interested parents and can even be seen in a child 's view of the purpose of education . |
| 4 | This is a promotion of parliament at the expense of the council of member-governments . |
| 5 | Many observers have noted how administration in new states consumed the bulk of revenue at the expense of investment and development ( Dumont 1966 ; First 1970 ; Bretton 1973 ; Amin 1973 ) . |
| 6 | Edward elicited these favours despite remarkable effrontery towards papal jurisdiction and patronage : in pursuit of royal rights of patronage at the expense of papal claims and expectations , Edward II was even more blatant than Edward I had been , and in 1309 and 1317 papal grievances went unregarded and unanswered . |
| 7 | The clove monopoly , dependent on US$375,000,000 in government soft loans , had benefited a consortium of traders at the expense of farmers , consumers and the central bank before collapsing in near bankruptcy . |
| 8 | They are intended to promote the primacy of schools at the expense of teacher education institutions . |
| 9 | Hurstdown 's Benedictine origins encourage us to emphasize the language of Catholicism at the expense of that of Orthodoxy . |
| 10 | The desire to get away from an extrinsically motivated mastery of skill at the expense of meaning has led them to question the necessity of graded readers . |
| 11 | The new policy will drop , for the first time since its introduction in the early Eighties , a presumption in favour of house-building at the expense of other conservation considerations . |
| 12 | For example , the need to generate income may lead trusts to concentrate on more profitable areas of work at the expense of others , or to discriminate between different categories of patients — private and public , DHA patients and those of GP fundholders — and between patients from one district and those from another . |
| 13 | The notion that clerical wealth was at the disposal of the realm when need arose was echoed and supported by some other developments of the reign : the practice whereby donations of land to the church first required royal licence ( and at a price ) ; the growing , though still limited , legal procedure and principle whereby endowments whose purposes were neglected by the receiving clergy could be recovered by the donor ; the practice of founders and patrons ‘ resuming ’ possession of the lands of religious houses embarrassed by debts ( not least debts resulting from taxation ) until they could again operate effectively ; the seizure of alien priories ; and lastly , the widening definition of temporalities at the expense of spiritualities . |
| 14 | Discriminatory UK excise duties against spirits worsen the trade balance and reduce domestic income and employment because they increase UK imports of wine at the expense of domestically produced spirits . |
| 15 | These more favoured subcontractors , however , gain a greater degree of continuity at the expense of wider variations in profits . |
| 16 | It was an exemplary Scargill performance in the long and honourable tradition of working-class orators who combine politics with pleasure — hard facts , immaculate timing and lots of jokes at the expense of the class enemy . |
| 17 | Exercise programmes often tend to exercise one set of muscles at the expense of another set . |
| 18 | Working under the not unreasonable assumption that since all its saloons are equally good to drive , size does matter , the last thing it wants to do is create a miracle of packaging at the expense of an ostensibly bigger model . |
| 19 | Over half the interviewees were worried about the arts in primary schools , sometimes about the excessively routine consideration of techniques at the expense of generating artistic ideas , but more frequently about the lack of any coherent programme . |
| 20 | Thus when Hollar asks him to smuggle his thesis out of the country and proposes a solution to Anderson 's ethical objections ( " But if you did n't know you were smuggling it " ) , his determination to preserve his negative face is demonstrated by the fact that he interrupts Hollar 's proposal in order to uphold the maxim of quality at the expense of the maxim of agreement ( 'smuggling implies knowledge " , ( p. 56 ) ) . |
| 21 | The second part of this series investigates the new reproductive and genetic technologies , that is , developments in the sphere of human reproduction , and will look at how pro-fertility and anti-fertility technologies ( such as hormonal contraceptives ) are two sides of population control , and , how the use of science , scientific principles and technology are directly and indirectly being used to serve the aims of a whole host of interests at the expense of women . |
| 22 | At the end of the sixth century a Frankish king complained that all the riches were flowing into the hands of bishops at the expense of the royal fisc , and that royal authority was being eclipsed by that of the bishops of cities . |
| 23 | The draft drawn up by the Yeltsin team would enshrine his emergency powers to run matters of state at the expense of parliament . |
| 24 | His name could , indeed , be invoked through the medieval centuries to reinforce the exaltation of virginity at the expense of marriage and to curtail the role of sexuality even within Christian marriage . |
| 25 | There is a price to be paid for not realising that the days of production of coal at the expense of all other power fuels are over . |
| 26 | The DoH is sensitive to the charge that the Children Act has gone too far in favour of children at the expense of upholding the rights and responsibilities of parents and guardians . |
| 27 | ‘ We may have gone too far in stressing the rights of children at the expense of upholding the responsibilities of parents and professionals in supervising them ’ , she said . |
| 28 | The reality of this picture of vibrant , ‘ grass roots ’ capitalist development in the Third World is attested to by the abundant evidence of rapidly rising commercialisation and the resulting social differentiation ( especially in the rural areas of Asia and Africa ) , coupled with the relative expansion of wage-labour at the expense of family and self-employment , including feudal-type tenurial relationships . |
| 29 | The Community 's structure gives far too much weight to the Council of Ministers at the expense of the European Parliament , and most importantly , of the individual citizen . |
| 30 | PUBS and supermarkets have had 40 years of prosperity at the expense of farmers , according to Tory Langbaurgh parliamentary hopeful Michael Bates . |