Example sentences of "[noun] has been fighting " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 2 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 3 | The 84-year-old Oscar-winner has been fighting a losing battle against failing sight for the past year . |
| 4 | The war of words with Damascus follows escalating violence in Kurdish-dominated south-east Turkey , where the PKK has been fighting security forces for the past eight years in a struggle for an independent Kurdish state . |
| 5 | Mr Tavernor has been fighting their case for more than forty years . |
| 6 | Analysts say Mr Patten has been fighting a war of nerves with China over the proposals , with neither wanting to go into any negotiations from a position of weakness . |
| 7 | Mrs Robinson has been fighting the bypass for more than 4 years , because it will take too much of her land . |
| 8 | Characteristically , Australia has been fighting the sun war with a slogan , Slip , Slop , Slap : slip on a shirt , slop on some cream and slap on a hat . |
| 9 | Many of the problems that you refer to in such a light-hearted manner are the result of this situation , which Colombia has been fighting , with a certain success . |
| 10 | As has been seen above ( Chapter 1 ) , the same measure will call for controls to prevent eutrophication in coastal water and Britain has been fighting the battle-of-the-maps at the Paris Commission . |
| 11 | Britain has been fighting a civil war for 20 years , and we all pretend it has n't . |
| 12 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 13 | It would spoil the flow to point out that everybody has been at it since the start of recorded time , or that much of the world has been fighting keenly away in these recent decades , while Western Europe was trying to invent the political structures that would make sure its nations never fight each other again . |
| 14 | The Campaign for Real Ale has been fighting to keep Morland independent … claiming prices will rise and customers deserve choice … they welcome today 's resutl |
| 15 | Since her son 's death Mrs Barber has been fighting to get the message of the dangers of solvent abuse across . |
| 16 | Charlemagne has been fighting for years in Spain , and has almost completed its conquest from the Saracens . |
| 17 | His mother has been fighting a campaign to have him released ever since . |
| 18 | For the past twenty years Lily Goodenough has been fighting a brain tumour . |