Example sentences of "at what [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | SENIOR figures in the Presbyterian Church are expressing concern at what they perceive as a ‘ media bias ’ against them when covering matters of public interest . |
| 2 | Naturally , neoclassical economists will stand aghast at what they regard as an unwarranted political intrusion into the realm of positive economics . |
| 3 | She goes every evening to the post , ’ and they began to laugh again at what they saw as a mocking mirror of their own flowering . |
| 4 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |
| 5 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 6 | MP after MP is returning from awkward constituency surgeries in the shires with tales of hard-saving but far-from-affluent constituents , Tory to the marrow , boiling with rage at what they see as a government out of touch and misdirected . |
| 7 | Some of the older men are also alarmed at what they see as a move away from conciliatory enforcement . |
| 8 | Senior BBC executives in Scotland are now concerned at what they see as a crucial shift in the balance of power to London . |
| 9 | Many senior executives are now concerned at what they see as a crucial shift in the balance of power from Scotland to London . |
| 10 | Given the thinly disguised mutual suspicion which traditionally exists between economists and sociologists , it is scarcely surprising that most mainstream economists were deeply unhappy at what they regarded as an unjustified yielding of territory to an altogether less rigorous discipline . ) |
| 11 | Some villagers were angry at what they regarded as an invasion — others were worried about drugs . |
| 12 | WHEN I read the opening words of your jazz columnist Solly Lipsitz on August 26 , ‘ As this will be my final Thursday column ’ , I felt that I should express my feelings at what I see as a matter which will be of deep concern to the entire jazz fraternity in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | Now an academic , he 's alarmed at what he sees as a policy reversal on cautioning . |
| 14 | In the magazine , the influential journalist and author Gail Sheehy writes : ‘ Hillary boils over at what she perceives as a double standard — that the press has shied away from investigating long-standing rumours about George Bush . ’ |
| 15 | Deeply concerned at what she sees as a naive response to changes in the Warsaw Pact countries which could yet be reversed , Mrs Thatcher will seek a clear assurance from Mr Bush that any defence cuts will not erode the US military commmitment to Western Europe . |