Example sentences of "fighting for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period . |
| 32 | Chavez spent his life fighting for the migrant Latino labourers who toil in California 's dusty vineyards and lettuce fields . |
| 33 | So I am fighting for the profession . |
| 34 | John Morris , the board 's secretary , has already suggested to the World Boxing Council that , since Duran was inside the middleweight limit when he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard , he should have lost that title , even though the pair were fighting for the world super-middleweight championship . |
| 35 | Bruno has dramatically re-entered the world heavyweight picture because of a clause in a TV contract that prevents George Foreman immediately fighting for the world title . |
| 36 | I believe it will be the greatest moment in British sporting history two Brits fighting for the world heavyweight title . |
| 37 | The right-wing Conservative Party ( CP ) accused the National Party of political surrender , and CP leader Andries Treurnicht said that his party was now alone in parliament in fighting for the self-determination and liberty of whites . |
| 38 | STRONTIUM 50 : Fighting For The Future |
| 39 | I represent the African National Congress , the vanguard movement fighting for the liberation of the people of South Africa . |
| 40 | Striders fielded an impressive all international line-up which , in spite of the absence of track ace Davy Wilson , racing in America , ADD01 simply left the rest fighting for the runner-up positions . |
| 41 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 42 | a nationalism which stood upon a critique of the very idea of civil society , a movement supported by the bourgeoisie which rejected the idea of progress , the ideology of a political organisation fighting for the creation of a modern national State which accepted at the same time the ideology of ‘ enlightened anarchy ’ . |