Example sentences of "to protest at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Last night parents in the North of Scotland gathered to protest at the decision by Dornoch Academy to opt out of local authority control . |
| 3 | Last night parents in the North of Scotland gathered to protest at the decision by Dornoch Academy to opt out of local authority control . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power . |
| 6 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 7 | ( In the same way , the rappers NWA — Niggas With Attitude — are entitled to protest at the racism of other uses of nigger by white people . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | AROUND 50 demonstrators gathered at Edinburgh 's City Chambers yesterday to protest at the presence of a Sinn Fein speaker at a meeting inside . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The action in London had an immediate effect elsewhere as crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 12 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 13 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 14 | K Thousands of coal miners marched through central London to protest at the Government 's bungled pit closures . |
| 15 | Health workers from North Yorkshire join a day of action in London to protest at the Government 's health policies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But disabled people gathered in Duke Street during the ceremony to protest at the scheme . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We would hope that by doing this we 'd actually mobilize the whole country to get down into London and to protest at the House of Commons against the closures in the Health Service . |
| 21 | In the small city of Sydney , Nova Scotia , a thousand did turn out to protest at the loss of the local train . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | France halted aid to Togo in February to protest at the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators by soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma . |
| 27 | Representatives from state enterprise unions defied a ban on political gatherings and convened in Bangkok on March 21 to protest at an NPKA plan to amend the Labour Relations Act and dissolve all 61 state enterprise unions and prevent new ones from being formed . |