Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] 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 | Terry and his wife Janice have been fighting Vodaphone with a petition and a stream of correspondence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Tavernor has been fighting their case for more than forty years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mrs Robinson has been fighting the bypass for more than 4 years , because it will take too much of her land . |
| 7 | The treaty conceded most of what Bruce had been fighting for . |
| 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 | Publicity officer Steve Thompson , said : ‘ Nicky had been fighting for over four years with an injury he did n't know about until six months ago . |
| 11 | Syrians moved into at least five neighbourhoods where the Syrian-backed Amal militia and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah have been fighting since noon on Thursday . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Britain has been fighting a civil war for 20 years , and we all pretend it has n't . |
| 14 | Carver and Maya had been fighting . |
| 15 | While women in the West have been fighting for the right to be accepted as builders , train drivers , engineers and scientists . |
| 16 | Since her son 's death Mrs Barber has been fighting to get the message of the dangers of solvent abuse across . |
| 17 | Englefield had been fighting 'Mill for second spot . |
| 18 | Charlemagne has been fighting for years in Spain , and has almost completed its conquest from the Saracens . |
| 19 | Bridget O'Brien 's been fighting attempts by Barclay 's Bank to repossess her home for five years and her legal victory was welcomed by others with similar problems . |
| 20 | For the past twenty years Lily Goodenough has been fighting a brain tumour . |
| 21 | Do you realise that those four or five women from the RVH have been fighting since 1984 for some sort of fairness and equality in their pay ? |