Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been fighting " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The 84-year-old Oscar-winner has been fighting a losing battle against failing sight for the past year . |
| 3 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | His mother has been fighting a campaign to have him released ever since . |