Example sentences of "were protesting at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Israeli police have shot dead twenty one Arabs in Jerusalem , and injured one hundred others who were protesting at a planned march by hard line Jews .
2 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 .
3 Nalgo members were protesting at the proposed closure of a 24-hour crisis intervention centre .
4 All over Greenwich and down into Deptford and along in Woolwich , people were protesting at the sudden heat .
5 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 .
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