Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [art] expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There were , I believe , five main reasons why the national daily press was stressed at the expense of radio and local newspapers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This modest success was bought at the expense of mounting employee grievances . |
| 6 | Thus the Roman plan for rectangular temples was generally pseudo-peripteral , wherein the cella was widened at the expense of the peristyle , and often the side ambulatory disappeared and half columns attached to the cella walls lined up with those of the front portico ; an imposing example of this design is the Maison Carrée at Nîmes ( 113 ) . |
| 7 | It must be regarded as probable , therefore , that under Aethelbald the Mercian position in areas bordering on other kingdoms was consolidated at the expense of surrounding neighbours . |
| 8 | Superficially the lack of any considerable contingent of men of undoubted substance in the Soke of Oakham and Alstoe hundred hints that the townsmen of Oakham 's average of £5.8 apiece was achieved at the expense of the immediate market area . |
| 9 | Recordings of sleep patterns again showed that this was achieved at the expense of REM and Stage 2 sleep , leaving Stage 4 sleep levels unaffected . |
| 10 | This was achieved at the expense of Turkey , following a series of wars . |
| 11 | Overall the position of the PS faction led by Laurent Fabius ( a former Prime Minister and current PS first secretary ) was strengthened at the expense of the faction led by Lionel Jospin . |
| 12 | However , the struggle was conducted at the expense of the woman worker and , within the family , the family wage system benefited men disproportionately , because they gained the full-time household services of their wives . |
| 13 | Anxious that the poorer areas in the east of Paris should have the same facilities as those in the west , the Emperor gave the land at Vincennes to the city and a huge park was constructed at the expense of the privy purse . |
| 14 | The life style of the bourgeois lady was purchased at the expense of a large class of servants , often prone to sexual depredations , and an equally vulnerable group of prostitutes . |