Example sentences of "[adv] to protest at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 2 | The challenge , from a unionist candidate in today 's local government elections , comes only days after people from the Falls and the Shankill joined together to protest at moves to cut jobs and operations at the hospital . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said quietly , deciding not to protest at his reluctant gesture of chivalry . |
| 4 | THE Dutch government called in the papal envoy in the Hague yesterday to protest at remarks made by a senior Vatican official comparing a new Dutch euthanasia law to mass killings by Nazi Germany . |
| 5 | AROUND 50 demonstrators gathered at Edinburgh 's City Chambers yesterday to protest at the presence of a Sinn Fein speaker at a meeting inside . |
| 6 | In the small city of Sydney , Nova Scotia , a thousand did turn out to protest at the loss of the local train . |
| 7 | Elsewhere , with many teachers engaged in the fifty mile protest , hundreds of youngsters used their day out to protest at the green line barrier separating Greek and Turkish communities . |
| 8 | And they plan to hold a residents ' meeting today to protest at the Durham County Council scheme . |
| 9 | Loretta was about to protest at this arrangement — she had not yet recovered from her irritation with Geoffrey — but decided it would be more diplomatic to follow Bridget into the kitchen . |
| 10 | Many people consider that the failure adequately to protest at the rise of European Fascism in the 1920s and 1930s was a failure of moral duty , whilst others point out that protesting was a highly dangerous business which led to imprisonment , to torture , and to death . |
| 11 | A teacher , employed by Orkney Islands Council , she said there was an atmosphere of great insecurity amongst council employees about there right to protest at that time . |