Example sentences of "have be waging a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xhosa-speakers generally support the African National Congress , which has been waging a small-scale war with followers of the Zulu-orientated Inkatha Freedom Party for the past week in Johannesburg 's townships . |
| 2 | In his letter of resignation to the party leader , Mr Rezsoe Nyers , with whom he has been waging a long-running feud , Mr Nemeth stated he had no option but to resign . |
| 3 | Mick Hardy , Trinity House River Lights Attendant , who is responsible for the seven shore lights along the Thames , has been waging an escalating battle against vandalism which , he says , increases during school holidays . |
| 4 | In January 1991 Özal antagonized conservative nationalist currents within the ANAP by easing restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language , hoping thereby to improve Turkey 's minority rights record and to undercut support for the Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which since 1984 had been waging a violent campaign in support of separatist demands . |
| 5 | On May 7 the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry claimed that Armenia had been waging an undeclared war on Azerbaijan , and that in over 300 cross-border attacks since the beginning of the year a total of 61 Azerbaijanis had been killed . |
| 6 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 7 | Since then , the fundamentalists have been waging a steady war on the government , at one point demanding the resignation of the Education Minister because of his plans for reforming the teaching of Islam in schools . |
| 8 | INDIA 'S troubled northern state of Kashmir , where militants have been waging an armed struggle for independence since 1990 , has a new governor . |