Example sentences of "campaigning for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brandreth has been campaigning for the Army 's new pay and personnel centre to be located in Chester and he led two delegations from the city to see Mr Hanley 's predecessor , Archie Hamilton . |
| 2 | Pressure groups are now campaigning for the law to be extended to cover back seat passengers too , principally with the safety of children in mind but also to protect front seat occupants who can be injured in a crash if an unrestrained person in the back is thrown forward . |
| 3 | They 'll be all these visitors campaigning for the election now ! |
| 4 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 5 | The hope of everyone campaigning for the survival of the 130-year-old warship builder is that work will be allowed to continue on three frigates which are at various construction stages . |
| 6 | Coun Harford added : ‘ We shall not be campaigning for the survival of the county council . |
| 7 | We shall be campaigning for the survival of local government in Cleveland . ’ |
| 8 | Another figure of the Duvalier regime , Claude Raymond , a former general , generally held to be behind the disruption of the November 1987 elections [ see pp. 35697-98 ] , was also reported to be campaigning for the presidency , despite a constitutional ban on " notorious Duvalierists " . |
| 9 | Clinton finished some way behind , and Kerrey and Harkin took fourth and fifth place respectively , having chosen to ignore the caucus in favour of campaigning for the primary in South Dakota on Feb. 25 . |
| 10 | THE years of campaigning for the release of her husband held hostage in Beirut finally took their toll on Sunnie Mann yesterday . |
| 11 | The Orkney Seven Action Group , which is campaigning for the release of the seven W children still in care , said Mrs W would not accept any offer on the basis that some of the children were abused by their elder siblings . |
| 12 | These particular residents , the ones that live in the service road , are campaigning for the service road to be closed but not surprisingly the residents who live are n't keen on that er road closure because that would affect their use that route at other times other than the morning peak . |
| 13 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 14 | Dr always insisting that she was n't campaigning for the legalization of cannabis . |
| 15 | PLEASE could I thank all the people who supported the ‘ Save Eldorado Campaign ’ in Northern Ireland and stress that we are campaigning for the re-introduction of the programme . |
| 16 | Greenpeace is campaigning for the closure of all industries producing wastes containing organochlorides , including dioxins . |
| 17 | Despite denials that efforts to block challenges to Bush were being co-ordinated from either the White House or the Republican Party 's national leadership , Duke threatened to contest the presidential election as a third party candidate if he was prevented from campaigning for the Republican nomination . |
| 18 | Mircea Druc , who had stood in the presidential elections as an independent candidate campaigning for the unification of Romania , Bessarabia ( now Moldova and parts of Ukraine ) and Bukovina ( also part of Ukraine ) , was elected leader of the newly formed National Reunification Party on Nov. 4 . |
| 19 | Former Home Affairs Minister Lee Sahng Yeon replaced Suh Dong Kwon as Director of the Agency for National Security Planning , after several Agency members had been found illegally campaigning for the opposition during the election . |
| 20 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 21 | Thulani Davis describes policemen setting dogs on black women and children campaigning for the right to buy a cup of coffee at the local Woolworths , and educated black men being asked to abandon French courses at university . |
| 22 | During his visit Kerrey made it known that he was campaigning for the lifting of the US economic embargo against the SOC and for increased investment and aid by US non-governmental organizations . |
| 23 | Those of modest personal means or unable to command corporate finance are unlikely even to enter primary races , let alone sustain a campaign through a gruelling eighteen months of campaigning for the party nomination . |
| 24 | The early years of the century witnessed widespread invasion scares , and extra-parliamentary pressure groups were actively campaigning for the introduction of compulsory military service which had never existed in Britain . |
| 25 | The police federation and Association of Chief Police Officers have been campaigning for the introduction of sidehandled batons . |