Example sentences of "be achieve at the cost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , Hoyle suggests that there is indeed a tension between the two approaches — that restricted professionality is unlikely in practice to be capable of extension or , put another way , that extended professionality can only be achieved at the cost of effective , restricted professionality at the classroom level . |
| 2 | Assuming that the Phillips curve is stable over time ( that is , it does not shift its position from one time period to another ) , we-could say that a lower unemployment percentage could be achieved at the cost of a higher rate of inflation . |
| 3 | Similarly , a lower inflation rate could be achieved at the cost of an increase in the unemployment percentage . |
| 4 | Finally , the benefits to be achieved from clarity of roles and greater accountability which accompany the separation of purchasing from provision may be achieved at the cost of much higher transaction costs between what are now separate organisations . |
| 5 | Even so , there was broad agreement that this evidence of innovation and vibrancy was being achieved at the cost of institutional inertia , a reluctance to champion enterprise , and an avoidance of any deep-seated restoration of the national economy . |
| 6 | Critics could argue that higher productivity was being achieved at the cost of pushing patients out of hospital " quicker and sicker " , and increasing the number of patients treated was still consistent with unmet need . |
| 7 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |
| 8 | So the new ‘ freedom and democracy ’ of the Eastern bloc has been achieved at the cost of poverty on an unimaginable scale south of the equator . |
| 9 | By personal charisma and/or alliance with other fonctionnaires with a more direct professional stake in curriculum content and delivery ( especially , inspectors ) , he or she may also and exceptionally become a ‘ curriculum leader ’ in the British sense , but that is achieved at the cost of encroaching upon the formal responsibility of other professionals . |
| 10 | But what is for the most part in these stories a quiet desperation , is achieved at the cost of suppressing part of his own awareness , part of his own truth , and how bad that was we begin to see with The Portrait . |
| 11 | All this was achieved at the cost of only two S.A.S. soldiers killed — Captain Roy Bradford and a trooper who was a mechanic for the jeeps , both casualties in the one incident — and seven men wounded . |