Example sentences of "be achieve at the expense " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , helping one client obtain a council tenancy may be achieved at the expense of others on the list . |
| 2 | A wider bandwidth could be achieved at the expense of a shorter delay time , but this would not give such a good reverberation effect . |
| 3 | A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable . |
| 4 | However , convictions for rape are hard to obtain and defendants very often plead not guilty when charged , so that the symbolic advantages of such a change might be achieved at the expense of even fewer convictions for the conduct concerned . |
| 5 | To complement the quotation from Winston Churchill 's reply to the debate on the then Coal Mines ( Eight Hours ) Bill that was given by the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras , I should like to draw the House 's attention to other words of Winston Churchill in the same speech , which are as self-evidently true today as they were then : ’ We have reminded the hon. Gentleman of it often ; but why should cheapness of production always be achieved at the expense of the human factor ? |
| 6 | A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable . |
| 7 | Of course our cost reductions are not being achieved at the expense of quality in our building standards . |
| 8 | This evidence is not sufficient to suggest that low rates of sudden deaths in Bangladeshi infants are achieved at the expense of high neonatal mortality . |
| 9 | Hence we have to adjust our expectations and , rather than blaming others for preventing resolution , accept that some goals are achieved at the expense of others . |
| 10 | This voluntary scheme , which gives general practitioners control over budgets to cover prescriptions , specialist outpatient consultations , and elective surgical procedures for their patients , has been embraced with enthusiasm by some general practitioners , but others have been concerned that it could encourage the development of a ‘ two tier ’ service , in which the advantages gained by fundholders for their patients are achieved at the expense of patients in other practices . |
| 11 | Mind you , some of this performance has been achieved at the expense of portability , such is the need for ruggedness in bass rigs . |
| 12 | Acoustically , the Takamine has a fairly flat response , with no boomy bass or tinny treble tendencies at all , though the evenness of its tone may have been achieved at the expense of some character . |
| 13 | This upward movement in the social hierarchy by many working-class boys ( significantly none of the studies has looked at girls ) has not been achieved at the expense of the opportunities of children from middle-class backgrounds , but by an explosion in the number of middle-class jobs — or an expansion in the service class or the salariat . |
| 14 | All the great middle-class moral reforms of the age had been achieved at the expense of pleasure and enjoyment . |
| 15 | These positive aspects of the Michigan law may , however , have been achieved at the expense of simplicity . |
| 16 | Standard and Poor 's cautioned , however , that macro-economic success had been achieved at the expense of widening the gap between rich and poor and through reduced spending on health , education and infrastructure . |
| 17 | All this had been achieved at the expense of the Liberal Party which had monopolized all three areas before 1910 . |
| 18 | In another sense the domination of the Labour Party had also been achieved at the expense of other claimants to the leadership of the socialist movement and the working class . |
| 19 | The overall increase of 2.1 per cent — compared with 2 per cent in grants from the Arts Council in England and Wales — was said to have been achieved at the expense of the SAC 's running costs , which will be limited to an increase of 1.5 per cent . |
| 20 | Military strength is of little value if it is achieved at the expense of economic health . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This was achieved at the expense of Turkey , following a series of wars . |