Example sentences of "be appalled at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I 'm appalled at the way that teenagers are still being shown on the television as they were twenty years ago able to rule the roost because they did . |
| 2 | The Chief Health Officer , Peter Perfect , said , ‘ I 'm appalled at the , sorry , at the size of this outbreak . |
| 3 | In some cases downstream users may have to close their intakes , and anglers may be appalled at the sight of dead fish . |
| 4 | Given the recent record of local government in Manchester and Liverpool , constituents in Lancashire and Cheshire would be appalled at the prospect of being governed from either of those places . |
| 5 | Mr Bound is particularly hopeful that criminals in the area will come forward with information as he thinks they too will be appalled at the crime . |
| 6 | Critics were appalled at the split . |
| 7 | Others , demoralized apostles of free enterprise , were appalled at the way in which the old boy network laid its palsied hand upon the business of wealth creation . |
| 8 | We at Select were appalled at the severity of the court judgement against your magazine and believe that it raises serious impediments to press freedom . |
| 9 | Indeed the authors were appalled at the violence of their society ; and hoped ( p. 143 ) that electricity , ‘ under the direction of skilled physicists and physiologists ’ might be used for sending ‘ absolutely indescribable torture ( unaccompanied by wound or even bruise ) thrilling through every fibre of the frame of such miscreants . ’ |
| 10 | The Vietnamese were appalled at the idea of a woman undergoing a trip in such a condition and in the end their forebodings proved justified : Elizabeth lost her baby . |
| 11 | Conservation bodies such as English Heritage and the Royal Fine Arts Commission were appalled at the plan and said it would ruin the historic town . |
| 12 | Mr Milne said his members were appalled at the stand being taken by the Grimsby-based Nation Federation of Fishermen 's Organisations . |
| 13 | [ That this House is appalled at the mistreatment and murder of street children in Guatemala ; and calls on President Serrano and the Guatemalan Government to urgently deal with this problem and in particular to support the work of the Casa Alianza and other agencies working to bring education and support to these children . ] |
| 14 | Congress , President , , speaking on behalf of the C E C. Congress , the C E C is appalled at the increase in the use of part-time and temporary contracts by employers as a way of cost-cutting . |
| 15 | Christine Bain is appalled at the stories with which her ‘ one-in-a-million ’ 12-year-old daughter comes home . |
| 16 | I am appalled at the flippant way in which the hon. Member addresses the serious matter of the continuing equipment of the Royal Navy . |
| 17 | RECENTLY returned to Northern Ireland from New Zealand , I am appalled at the waste of re-cycleable material in the province . |
| 18 | I am appalled at the mores that exist in this country today . |
| 19 | ‘ I am appalled at the manner in which Mr Birt 's affairs have been leaked from within the BBC . |
| 20 | Outside Cabinet Leon Brittan argued in a speech that the Government must have the right to look at new ideas , although I suspect that both Leon and Geoffrey Howe must have been appalled at the way the issue had been handled . |
| 21 | Latin American diplomats have been saying privately in Washington that they are appalled at the jingoistic reaction of Americans . |
| 22 | It is a sign that ordinary men and women at the workface of wealth-creation are appalled at the notion of a return to state intervention . |
| 23 | ‘ We have waited 22 months for justice to be done and are appalled at the verdict , ’ it read . |
| 24 | We are appalled at the attack and murder of the migrant Turkish workers and their families in Germany . |
| 25 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 26 | Sir : As a former student at the then University of Rhodesia , I was appalled at the decision of the Zimbabwe government to close down the university . |
| 27 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 28 | Mr Leslie Draper , her solicitor , said : ‘ She was appalled at the hardship following atrocities in Northern Ireland and was not convinced enough was being done for the people left behind . |
| 29 | The neighbourhood was appalled at the atrocities perpetrated on two popular local policemen . |
| 30 | When I was in Liberia I was appalled at the way the French contrived and set things up . |