Example sentences of "being [vb pp] at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 2 | Since most fish feed is made of fish , farmed salmon and trout are being reared at the expense of much larger quantities of wild species like sprat , capelin , pout and sand eel . |
| 3 | The lawyer may wish to eschew the elevation of efficiency if he thinks it is being pursued at the expense of other desirable goals such as fairness and equality of opportunity , goals which he may feel are more important than efficiency . |
| 4 | In other words , part of the essence of Cobol clarity is being preserved at the expense of what some would argue is object-oriented programming 's inherent expressiveness at the fine object level . |
| 5 | Care was taken to make building surveying curricula more apposite to the work of the candidate , the technological aspects being increased at the expense of law and economics . |
| 6 | Of course our cost reductions are not being achieved at the expense of quality in our building standards . |