Example sentences of "[vb past] to fight for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party denounced the name change and vowed to fight for the right to continue to use its name .
2 The Left-wing of the party continued to fight for the adoption of socialist policies .
3 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 .
4 Between 1956 and 1960 the association had to fight for the right to enter the Big Berlin Exhibition as a separate group .
5 Moreover , even when funds were available , the peasantry refused to fight for the monarch : and this was true even with the growth of an expropriated landless labouring class .
6 What was it that so introverted a man as Ludwig Wittgenstein thought he believed in , when he volunteered to fight for the Emperor ?
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