Example sentences of "[been] a struggle [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered Nails 's dogged determination riding Midnight , swallowing his male arrogance to knuckle under to a girl 's instructions : it had really been a struggle for him . |
| 2 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 3 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 4 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 5 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 6 | The history of the Players ' Union has only intermittently been a struggle against wage and transfer controls . |