Example sentences of "of [noun pl] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They are intended to promote the primacy of schools at the expense of teacher education institutions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Exercise programmes often tend to exercise one set of muscles at the expense of another set . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |