Example sentences of "[adv] at the expense of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As resource allocation is a ‘ zero sum game ’ ( that is , authorities can gain only at the expense of others ) it seems essential to be able to explain why different formulas produce different results in terms other than the composition of the formulas . |
| 2 | ‘ Authorities can gain only at the expense of others . |
| 3 | All members of the central team at Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) were severely stretched in terms of both time and the range of roles they were expected to encompass , and it was therefore inevitable that some aspects of their job could be successfully accomplished only at the expense of others . |
| 4 | The variations in their prosperity depended often on how far the developing cloth trade affected individual places ; some towns undoubtedly grew , particularly in the early sixteenth century , but they often did so at the expense of others rather than through a serious movement of population from the countryside , although some such drift occurred . |
| 5 | Many feminists , by contrast , see the home as predominantly a back region for a man returning home from work : one where he can be himself , and largely at the expense of women 's autonomy and escape . |
| 6 | Requests which arise after off-duty rosters are complete should be dealt with sympathetically but not at the expense of patients or other staff . |
| 7 | There was a still earlier view which said that he was an arrogant little brat and that what he liked best was having fun , preferably at the expense of others . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the drive to achieve cuts even at the expense of standards has intensified . |
| 9 | None of these connections necessarily implies any reduction of competition between firms that produce similar goods because of the intense efforts that are made to increase market share even at the expense of rivals within the group . |
| 10 | In recent years , fraud cases involving professionals had received a lot of publicity in Scotland , but there had also been a surge in mortgage and cheque frauds , primarily at the expense of banks . |