Example sentences of "at [art] expense of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music of the words is there to be used — but not at the expense of the sense and emotional content . |
| 2 | The fear is always that the outside will be presented with the chance to gain knowledge and power at the expense of the institution ; although this is often only obliquely implied : |
| 3 | Again a metaphorical breach of a sacred boundary has occurred and an ‘ enemy ’ made a gain at the expense of the integrity of the inside ! |
| 4 | In this setting the qualitative was constantly under evaluation at the expense of the quantitative measure , for the ‘ wise ’ amongst us who were present knew that the statistical return often gives a skewed version of complex social events , although it speaks volumes about the way our systems of control are generated and maintained . |
| 5 | Later , the introduction of pointes and the ‘ ballerina ’ skirt led to the dominant role of the ballerina at the expense of the male dancer and this brought further changes in the patterns . |
| 6 | In practice , binary oppositions are very liable to favour one term at the expense of the other , and there can be no doubt that Bakhtin preferred the dialogic to the monologic ( a bias that is evident in everyday English , where to engage in dialogue is good , and to utter a monologue is rather bad ) . |
| 7 | It would come predominantly from middle-aged , middle-class voters in the South and be chiefly at the expense of the Social and Liberal Democrats , Social Democrats and Greens . |
| 8 | Another thing , sociology would seem to be saying that those who have wealth and do well do so at the expense of the poor unfortunate . |
| 9 | To this extent the region was actually encouraging the formation of richer peasant strata at the expense of the poorer . |
| 10 | In a foreword to the 1979 Conservative election manifesto , Mrs Thatcher suggested that the election might be the last chance voters had to reverse the extension of state power at the expense of the individual . |
| 11 | As a consequence , government has been able to expand the sphere of its operations at the expense of the peasant farmers whose primary produce formed the bulk of exports . |
| 12 | In the agricultural sector , the self-interest of the state has led to policies which have favoured distorted exchange rates , consistently favouring government and the urban population at the expense of the incomes of rural families , and ultimately at the expense of marketed production . |
| 13 | Many of the big European names are being churned out by British design teams who have been trained at the expense of the British taxpayer . |
| 14 | Note that if you take Kugelbaum 's football and let all the pentagons expand at the same rate and at the expense of the Ts until every T has shrunk to a point you will be left with a regular dodecahedron , having 12 pentagonal faces . |
| 15 | Denmark 's far-right anti-tax Progress Party made gains in Tuesday 's municipal elections at the expense of the ruling Conservatives . |
| 16 | He can be forgiven that lapse and should recover losses at the expense of the Gold Cup pretender . |
| 17 | He can be forgiven that lapse and should recover losses at the expense of the Gold Cup pretender . |
| 18 | However , the world 's preponderance of very poor people want to get richer as quickly as they can and are probably not too concerned if they do so at the expense of the environment . |
| 19 | The Korean War , and more particularly the fear of a major Soviet offensive of some kind in Europe in 1953 , which killed the Ten-Year Rule , led to crash production programmes at the expense of the previous policy of giving priority to research and development . |
| 20 | They watched the progress of Polaris closely , but made no bid for it because to have done so would have loaded the Naval votes with its costs at the expense of the rest of the Fleet . |
| 21 | Britain therefore likes the French idea that the European Council should take on a larger role at the expense of the commission . |
| 22 | While foreigners on Wall Street have largely failed to break into the domestic-equity business , the gaijin houses on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) have won Japanese institutional business at the expense of the big four Japanese securities houses , mostly because the foreigners offer better research . |
| 23 | Many academics and journalists who gave warning that liberalisation and the Congress Party culture were fattening the rich at the expense of the poor are understandably silent . |
| 24 | It is seldom possible , however many hours worked , to provide the quality of care we have been trained to deliver , except at the expense of the non-acute patients on the ever-extending waiting-lists . |
| 25 | By the end of 1926 , the General Council was advancing the argument , with some justification , that the General Strike had only been an attempt to warn employers that the problems of industry could not constantly be tackled at the expense of the standard of living of the workers . |
| 26 | In this sense , Labour 's respect for the constitution and its willingness to collaborate with an increasingly strong State against ‘ extremism ’ of the Left as well as the Right did not save Britain from fascism : it merely helped capital at the expense of the working class . |
| 27 | Thirdly , why did the National government adopt a policy of non-intervention which , as implied in the previous chapter , aided the fascists at the expense of the legitimate Republican government of Spain ? |
| 28 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 29 | Many critics of the Orange state suppose that unionists followed the politics they did in order to maintain and increase their material position at the expense of the Catholic nationalist population . |
| 30 | At the end of the sixth century a Frankish king complained that all the riches were flowing into the hands of bishops at the expense of the royal fisc , and that royal authority was being eclipsed by that of the bishops of cities . |