Example sentences of "[noun] to protest at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But disabled people gathered in Duke Street during the ceremony to protest at the scheme . |
| 2 | COMMUTERS stood on tracks disrupting London-bound trains yesterday in protest at British Rail 's ‘ scorched earth ’ policy for eliminating the perennial problem of leaves on the line More than 50 people at Carshalton , Surrey , swapped season tickets for placards to protest at the transformation of leafy tracksides into what one called a ‘ scene from Apocalypse Now ’ , the film about the Vietnam war which showed the effects of mass defoliation with napalm . |
| 3 | The rally , at the City Halls , Glasgow , will be attended by civil servants from the West of Scotland to protest at the Government 's market testing ( or privatisation ) programme . |
| 4 | France halted aid to Togo in February to protest at the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators by soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma . |
| 5 | In October 1966 the Derry Young Republican Association held an open-air meeting to protest at the eviction of a family from a house in Creggan . |
| 6 | By then , the women had all become firm trade union supporters , staged solidarity strikes with a number of other factories and political stoppages to protest at the arrest of important opposition leaders . |
| 7 | ‘ The idea of the letter was to get patients to protest at the lack of central funding and to explain to health board general managers that these are services patients think should be provided , ’ Dr James said . |
| 8 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |
| 9 | Determined to maintain the authority of the president , in 1766 he overruled the appointment of a new steward ( who oversaw the domestic arrangements of the college ) made at a meeting presided over by the vice-president , having persuaded eight of the senior fellows to protest at the action and ruling that the proceedings were contrary to statute . |
| 10 | On March 1 a vigil was held in Sofia by several hundred people holding open umbrellas to protest at the failure of the authorities to fulfil Lilov 's promise to Annabel Markov . |
| 11 | K Thousands of coal miners marched through central London to protest at the Government 's bungled pit closures . |
| 12 | Health workers from North Yorkshire join a day of action in London to protest at the Government 's health policies . |
| 13 | He displayed his contempt for Hollywood at the awards ceremony by refusing to accept the gold statuette and sending an Indian girl in his stead to protest at the way the movie industry had treated the Red Man . |
| 14 | In July , DHAC members accompanied three women and their seven children to the corporation housing manager 's office to protest at the allocation of a house to a former Belfast prison officer . |