Example sentences of "fighting for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document called the JNA " a cowardly army , fighting for no recognizable principle but largely , instinctively for its own status and survival " . |
| 2 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 3 | AT a time when there are searching questions about the medical aspect of the sport , it may seem unfortunate that a man who suffers from a disability is fighting for a world title . |
| 4 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 5 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 6 | The small birds clustered tightly on the swinging coconut were fighting for a firm grip . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ They did not have certain top-class players out there , but the majority of those who came in were £1 million players and I felt that they would be fighting for a place in the Cup replay . ’ |
| 8 | This is because both agencies are fighting for a larger share of the available budget and seek to create a good impression by producing the most frightening scenario . |
| 9 | Fundamentally , all that we have a right to expect from our theory is a battleground of replicators , jostling , jockeying , fighting for a future in the genetic hereafter . |
| 10 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 11 | He was fighting for a young girl 's honour , and the honour of the police-force . |
| 12 | The tradition , as related by Butcher , is that in 1209 ( the date popularly associated with the introduction of bull-baiting into England ) , William de Warrenne , Lord of Stamford , on looking out from his castle walls , saw two bulls fighting for a cow in the castle meadows . |
| 13 | I 've got 20 players fighting for a place and 11 who do n't want to give up the shirt . |
| 14 | Joe Hawkins and his ilk were , essentially , patriots fighting for a heritage . |
| 15 | With old foe Nigel Benn favoured to take the WBC version of the title from Italy 's Mauro Galvano on October 3 , the two champions could afford to forget their squabbles fighting for a mountain of cash . |
| 16 | Hopefully I will be fully fit and fighting for a first team place in two weeks . ’ |
| 17 | It mentioned Ipswich 's VIC organisation , fighting for a venue in the town . |
| 18 | As Access Director of the British Mountain Bike Federation , Colin Palmer is fighting for a fair deal for off-road cyclists |
| 19 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 20 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 21 | Death on the battlefield , fighting for a just cause and , preferably in the presence of the king who led and represented the community , was , for the fighting man like Charles de la Tremoille , the supreme accolade . |
| 22 | To some extent perhaps they were the victims of their own official attitude to what was happening — as when the French Ambassador in London told Eden that a French civil and military resistance organization in Vietnam had the general support of the army and the civil population : whether this was the French or the Vietnamese population was apparently not specified — but in their Declaration of 24 March 1945 the Provisional French Government implied that all the peoples of Indochina were fighting for a common cause ; which was that of the entire French community . |
| 23 | So , my father ended by fighting for a different cause from the one he had volunteered to defend . |
| 24 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 25 | ‘ I fear my cousin will never relinquish her claim , since she is fighting for a position that she considers to be her son 's heritage as well as her own . ’ |
| 26 | By fighting for the ideal of a strong Britain in a wider , deeper and more democratic European Community , that Labour Government will be fighting for a true and meaningful British sovereignty . |
| 27 | We are supposed to be revolutionaries , fighting for a sacred cause . |
| 28 | There were teddy bears and pandas seemingly fighting for a place in an armchair . |
| 29 | Fighting for a place in the Leeds United line-up must be better and more important than fighting for a place in Norway 's World Cup squad . |
| 30 | Fighting for a place in the Leeds United line-up must be better and more important than fighting for a place in Norway 's World Cup squad . |