Example sentences of "is [vb pp] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undeniably their faith is genuine , but the weakness is that their faith is developed at the expense of their understanding . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In museum culture the original physical artefact is venerated at the expense of a replica , duplicate , reconstruction , or hologram . |
| 4 | This is done at the expense of the external validity , i.e. the applicability of the results to the population as a whole . |
| 5 | And , as in Bentham 's circular buildings , managerial security is advanced at the expense of liberty , of the freedom of action of those whom managerial staff seek to supervise . |
| 6 | This amplification is produced at the expense of energy pumped into the medium via the population inversion of its atoms or molecules . |
| 7 | Affirmation depends on negation : white is valued at the expense of black ; youth acquires status through the devaluation of ageing . |
| 8 | Vido 's manipulative charm is exercised at the expense of Mira 's verses . |
| 9 | Such " success " as there may be from legal prohibition of alcohol or other addictive substances is gained at the expense of creating the suffering of " Dry Drunks " . |
| 10 | Military strength is of little value if it is achieved at the expense of economic health . |
| 11 | Standing in determined opposition to him was G. G. Williams who , anticipating many of the protests of the 1960s ( and later ) , objected that ‘ the parity of esteem is purchased at the expense of the grammar school ’ . |