Example sentences of "they be fighting for " in BNC.

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1 At that moment they are living in a monothematic world limited to one thought : to attain the goal they are fighting for .
2 They are fighting for their enslavement as if it were a question of their salvation .
3 Now they are fighting for survival .
4 It says they are fighting for freedom for their people .
5 They are fighting for the protection of their largely rural environment .
6 They 're fighting for their lives , and they need help .
7 they organized their own child care practices , all the things that women say they 're fighting for today , has actually been done before , and done very successfully .
8 Now they 're fighting for compensation .
9 Medical campaigners say they 're fighting for quality of life .
10 By choosing to take at face value all the evidence pointing to the futility of the war , and ignoring all those who believed , with patent sincerity , that they were fighting for something worthwhile against something evil , he has taken cynicism to the point of naivety .
11 They were fighting for seats in a body — the Strasbourg parliament — which is the assembly of the European Community , of which they strongly disapprove. 1992 and the European Single Market would be ‘ disastrous , catastrophic ’ , an ‘ ideological bluff ’ devised by deceitful politicians , declared a German MEP at the Paris conference .
12 They were fighting for justice for the workers , a fine cause but one that had already proved useless in Russia , where the same old bureaucratic hierarchy held sway as it did in Spain .
13 According to this argument French troops had to see that they were fighting for something and , moreover , they needed the feeling that their actions were approved .
14 There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years .
15 So that one really is telling a story , commemorating something in Danish history , when they were fighting for their for their freedom .
16 They were fighting for an objective which was far more important than local arrangements or local agreements er with er foreign imperial powers about who governed what er in , in their own country .
17 They were fighting for an objective which was far more important than local arrangements or local agreements er with er foreign imperial powers about who governed what er in , in their own country .
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