Example sentences of "have been fighting a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 84-year-old Oscar-winner has been fighting a losing battle against failing sight for the past year . |
| 2 | But Reid , who is also considering giving brilliant youngster Gary Flitcroft his full debut , stressed : ‘ There is no problem with Steve even though he was substituted on Saturday — to be fair to him he has been fighting a toe injury . ’ |
| 3 | Britain has been fighting a civil war for 20 years , and we all pretend it has n't . |
| 4 | The first has been fighting a ( largely losing ) battle against social condemnation of " stealing other people 's homes " ; the second has been the mechanism by which to carry out government 's policies to protect some short-term occupiers ( tenants , with exclusive possession ) but not others ( licensees ) . |
| 5 | For the past twenty years Lily Goodenough has been fighting a brain tumour . |
| 6 | His mother has been fighting a campaign to have him released ever since . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 9 | Up to then the UK and Irish entries had been fighting a tooth and nail contest . |
| 10 | Protected from prosecution by an amnesty law of 1978 , the military opposed any such investigation but their claim that they had been fighting a war against left-wing subversion became increasingly untenable with the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of their political opponents and the disclosure of how they had indulged in corrupt financial practices while in power , including the payment of US$3,000,000 to Pinochet 's son [ see pp. 37528-29 ; 37852-53 ; 37958 ] . |
| 11 | Woolley looked as if he had been fighting a forest fire : his eyes were red , his face was filthy , and one ear had bled down his neck . |
| 12 | But it 's the sorta thing I 'd expect to hear from older people who 've been fighting a fight and are n't interested in anything I 'm doing . |
| 13 | They have been fighting a real war , a race war , a class war , a war over resources and territory , a war in which real children die every day , a war nobody can win because no territory is conquered and the body counts do not mean victory . |
| 14 | For too long , local planning authorities and local civic societies have been fighting an uneven battle against strong-arm tactics by the multiples . |
| 15 | For the past year , he 's been fighting a massive tumour in his chest with gruelling bouts of chemotherapy and painful lumbar punctures in hospital . |