Example sentences of "to fight for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will be bad for shareholders but something they will have to accept unless they are prepared to fight for fair value . |
| 2 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 3 | Though he supported the poll tax , in operation in Scotland since April , party activists had not been equipped to fight for it . |
| 4 | We are the real fighters , the ones who come out of the company to fight for our rights . |
| 5 | The only alternative , in the face of their own inability to act , is to get the government to fight for them — through demanding laws to back up current procedures . |
| 6 | Cricketers were no longer even financially privileged workers and there was no representative body to fight for them until the Cricketers ' Association was formed in 1968 . |
| 7 | Although youths were predominant , there was no shortage of older men willing to fight for sectarian reasons . |
| 8 | Charles knew he had to fight for them . |
| 9 | He had had to fight for everything he had done , fight the people who wanted to wrap him up safely and wheel him out for a bit of ribbon-cutting and ceremonial . |
| 10 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 11 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 12 | He pays tribute to his treatment at Gartree prison , he apologises to the bomb victims ' families that they have had to keep reminding them of their loss : ‘ But we had to fight for our freedom . ’ |
| 13 | Mr John Dyer , chairman of the Barlow Clowes Investors ' Group , which was set up to fight for compensation , said : ‘ I really think investors ought to be deeply grateful . |
| 14 | Let us not leave it to others to fight for our goals . ’ |
| 15 | As Allen Saddler 's notice so rightly says , many of the Labour MPs who swept to power in 1945 had come through J.P.M. 's schools and were thus well armed to fight for the legislation which so transformed society after the second world war . |
| 16 | It is very English , of course , to fight for good causes under the cover of titled office-holders . |
| 17 | New Times has pondered whether there would be such vehement opposition about sending ‘ our boys ’ abroad again if they were to be sent to fight for Iraq . |
| 18 | They have to fight for their theories , and face failure when they fall — for no science is written on tablets of stone . |
| 19 | She used passionate verbs such as ‘ adore ’ and ‘ detest ’ , as if she wished to proclaim her readiness to fight for every one of those five strokes , for every one of those five points . |
| 20 | Fine Gael is anything but left-wing : its roots can be traced back to General Duffy and the Blueshirts who sent a division of soldiers from Ireland to fight for Franco in the Spanish Civil War . |
| 21 | Remember , we 've all got to fight for the future now . ’ |
| 22 | Another old argument is that ‘ manly sports ’ help to keep people fit to fight for the Crown if necessary , whereas fights which involve maiming rob the Crown of able-bodied men for the armed forces . |
| 23 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 24 | You should never put on your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth . |
| 25 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 26 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 27 | What was it that so introverted a man as Ludwig Wittgenstein thought he believed in , when he volunteered to fight for the Emperor ? |
| 28 | As it is , he will have to fight for every freedom supposedly guaranteed already in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration . |
| 29 | The city had raised troops to fight for the Government , and the British army , a great continental power , could hardly be bested by a ragged colonial army and a handful of farmers and fur-trappers ! |
| 30 | They had plenty to fight for . |