Example sentences of "campaigning for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samuel , who lived with his mother until 1652 or later , collaborated with her in the 1640s in campaigning for religious freedom and upholding the autonomy of individual congregations . |
| 2 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 3 | campaigning for better use of the existing housing stock to cater for smaller households ; |
| 4 | There has been progress in the integration of community languages into the mainstream curriculum but the progress is pitifully slow , with a number of factors compounding a lack of confidence amongst those campaigning for greater sensitivity towards and encouragement of the forms of language brought by pupils into British Schools . |
| 5 | After the worst year on record for cruelty to sheep and cattle — the RSPCA is now campaigning for that loophole to be closed . |
| 6 | 1973 ) which emphasized the damaging effects of ‘ drift ’ in care , they came to constitute a formidable ‘ Permanence Movement ’ , campaigning for early decision-making over whether a child entering care was to return to parents or be placed in permanent substitute care . |
| 7 | He has spent his life campaigning for free trade unionism and free votes . |
| 8 | Their goals cover an infinite range , from the manufacturing of nappies to campaigning for free abortion . |
| 9 | A myriad of associations campaigning for some form of political and economic union proliferated across all the democracies and across most political party persuasions : for example , the United Europe Movement in Britain , organised by Churchill ; the Catholic Nouvelles Équipes Internationales and the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe in France , but both with some following in Belgium and Luxembourg ; and the Europa-Bund in Germany . |
| 10 | Harry Pollitt reported to the Central Committee of the Party in January 1936 that : We fight to affiliate as an organised Party , campaigning for united action on the part of all workers organisations , for a change of policy that corresponds to the desires of the Labour Party members , and that also opens up the perspective of realising at a later stage one united working class political party . |
| 11 | In a BBC interview during his brief period of freedom he had promised to continue campaigning for multiparty democracy even if it meant a death sentence for sedition . |
| 12 | Environmental groups are campaigning for more money and importance to be placed on the needs of cyclists , with a target of doubling cycle use over the next five years . |
| 13 | A number of executive members agreed that the newly formed Coalition for Scottish Democracy would take the lead on campaigning for constitutional change and be the main co-ordinator of future events . |
| 14 | Academics have been writing books and articles ; Charter 88 has been campaigning for constitutional reform ; citizenship is to be incorporated in the National Curriculum in the schools ; and a commission under the august patronage of the Speaker of the House of Commons published a report entitled Encouraging Citizenship in October 1990 . |
| 15 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 16 | Local residents are campaigning for urgent action to stop the repeated fires at the semi-derelict school which closed only about two years ago . |
| 17 | He was released in June 1916 but , instead of campaigning for negotiated peace , argued ( now to classes of 1,500 students ) that the revolutionary crux had arrived . |
| 18 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 19 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |