Example sentences of "protesting at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also wrote to Prime Minister John Major protesting at the recent Durham County Council decision to close eight of its homes . |
| 2 | Two hundred and fifty signed letters were delivered to the Irish Embassy , protesting at the Irish government 's censorship and refusal to take on the issue . |
| 3 | Alford was equally staunch in championing the rights of the Commons against the Lords , whether protesting at the Upper House 's attempts to control the negotiations over the Scottish union or complaining against their insistence on members ' ‘ standing so long bare ’ at conferences . |
| 4 | Over 500 of the company 's workers were protesting at the possible closure of the British-controlled company , following reports that its main creditor bank had threatened to withdraw funding . |
| 5 | Environmentalists and fishermen were protesting at the devastating effects of the Spanish and Italian drift-net fishery for swordfish . |
| 6 | David Blunkett MP showed himself most committed on the issue , protesting at the sheer chutzpah of the Tories in purloining for themselves a concept of essentially socialist origin . |
| 7 | Residents in Saltburn have sent more than 50 letters to Langbaurgh council protesting at the planned closure of the town lavatories . |
| 8 | Nalgo members were protesting at the proposed closure of a 24-hour crisis intervention centre . |
| 9 | In June he dismissed a letter from President Havel of Czechoslovakia protesting at the human rights situation in Cuba as " ignorant of our country 's problems " . |
| 10 | All over Greenwich and down into Deptford and along in Woolwich , people were protesting at the sudden heat . |
| 11 | The demonstrators were protesting at the imminent loss of 5,000 jobs in the region in the mining , steel , shipbuilding and fertilizer industries , and expressing fears for the future of at least half of Cartagana 's active workforce of 60,000 . |
| 12 | On June 6 the University of Zimbabwe authorities took action against students protesting at the high level of fees and demanding higher grants . |