Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] of others " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have to make choices ; some goals will be achieved at the price of others . |
| 2 | I was now at the mercy of others and nobody in a position of authority had , so far , shown any great desire to help . |
| 3 | The Victorian pub is now threatened in two ways : because it is not understood as a historic document , and because certain isolated elements in Victorian pub design have been overemphasised at the expense of others . |
| 4 | They record him burning with anger against those who practised their faith at the expense of others . |
| 5 | This is visually achieved by emphasising some aspects of an experience at the expense of others . |
| 6 | Home ownership Government help has been directed to home owners at the expense of others . |
| 7 | Ensuring to all an equal ability to realize their conception of the good is more likely to require acting in a non-neutral way , acting to improve the ability of some at the expense of others . |
| 8 | Liberty , that is , to be like the bus boy from Ohio , liberty to realise any dream , be it at the expense of others , which , in this land-of-the-free , it inevitably has to be . |
| 9 | Grazing by different animals , mowing for hay or silage , treading by stock and machinery each favours some plants at the expense of others . |
| 10 | For example , helping one client obtain a council tenancy may be achieved at the expense of others on the list . |
| 11 | It is not unknown for practical jokers — among both dabblers and serious occultists — to have fun at the expense of others . |
| 12 | Should people pursue their own happiness at the expense of others ? |
| 13 | Some of these writers have taken the view that as part of this class war management , on behalf of capital , have been able to steer the direction of technological change along a particular path , stimulating certain developments at the expense of others so that the interests of capital are better served , and the interests of labour are countered . |
| 14 | Individuals were given the opportunity to achieve much for themselves but too often they did it at the expense of others . |
| 15 | The presence of your firm has to be pushed against the competition — and eventually your firm has to be advanced at the expense of others . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Such a positive-sum game must be contrasted with a zero-sum game in which the game to some can only be at the expense of others . |
| 18 | It was equally important to outshine everyone else around me — in other words , to achieve at the expense of others . |
| 19 | There is little doubt that some of the 700 million dollars would be at the expense of others and some practitioners of ‘ small ’ science , whose projects can sink or swim on fluctuations of tens of thousands of dollars , see calls for 700 million with less than total enthusiasm . |
| 20 | ‘ Wherever I go , ’ he wrote , ‘ I see representatives of different organisation fighting their own corner at the expense of others . |
| 21 | If the contingent environmental events are then altered so that certain ways of performing the skill are preferred to others , then some ways of performing the behaviour will be selectively reinforced at the expense of others . |
| 22 | Mary Midgley is alone amongst prominent liberationists in refusing to truckle to moral theories that , as she sees it , unduly promote one aspect of the problem ( consequences for the utilitarians , the value of life for Regan ) at the expense of others equally important : |
| 23 | The closeness of these links is obviously a matter of degree , since there will always be some connection between the various aspects of a theory ; but a concern with the general problem of holism will inevitably constrain us to see a theory in a particular perspective , and to focus sharply on certain characteristics at the expense of others . |
| 24 | Not all the hypocrites are equally resourceful , but they all exploit positions of trust in order to gain at the expense of others . |
| 25 | Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others . |
| 26 | The study of the classics , even when unfortified by specific reference to Roman law , was a potent weapon in strengthening princely jurisdiction at the expense of others . |
| 27 | Each of us has to make choices , to pursue some goals at the expense of others , and some of these choices are painful . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At stake are not only the interests of potential motorway users and of persons whose land might be compulsorily acquired to provide a route for the motorway ; also involved are the inhabitants of villages and towns which will be relieved of through-traffic by the motorway ; British Rail may have an interest in inhibiting the development of alternative means for the transport of goods ; improved transport and communications facilities provided by the motorway may benefit some businesses at the expense of others ; and motorways have , of course , serious environmental effects which lovers of the countryside and people who live near the proposed route will be anxious to avoid . |
| 30 | This regulation is aimed at securing some of the policy goals sought by governments , even if at the expense of others . |