Example sentences of "fighting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment they are living in a monothematic world limited to one thought : to attain the goal they are fighting for . |
| 2 | It is currently , in 1990 , fighting for its life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She felt cornered , counted out by this cool precision , fighting for something which had given every sign of gracious flowering … from time to time . |
| 5 | Tramens lay in the streets , in offices , in their homes , gasping , choking , clutching their throats , fighting for air . |
| 6 | Yet no-one could ever have doubted either his sincerity or integrity in fighting for what he always felt was right for the game . |
| 7 | By then , Bedford will be left fighting for survival in four crunching closing fixtures and when Patterson makes his likely league debut it will be in Bath , of all places . |
| 8 | Launching its autumn campaign in Edinburgh , the party revealed that the twin themes of independence in Europe and ‘ fighting for Scotland better than Labour ever can or will ’ would form its ‘ springboard to victory ’ . |
| 9 | By choosing to take at face value all the evidence pointing to the futility of the war , and ignoring all those who believed , with patent sincerity , that they were fighting for something worthwhile against something evil , he has taken cynicism to the point of naivety . |
| 10 | Far from indulging in political theatre as you suggested , Kenya and Tanzania , by campaigning for an international ivory trade ban , are fighting for their political life . |
| 11 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 12 | McKenzie was fighting for the first time since losing his IBF title to Ulster 's Dave McAuley . |
| 13 | Treasury Secretaries have been fighting for reinstatement ever since . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the Liberals were undeniably out there in the country , and it would be electorally suicidal to have two smaller centrist parties fighting for leadership of the middle ground . |
| 15 | ‘ And it 's one , two , three , what are we fighting for ? |
| 16 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 17 | The USA was in the opposite camp , fighting for complete free enterprise for airlines ( except in situations in which US airlines were subject to foreign discrimination ) and open access to all countries . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I am fighting for them as much as for the shareholders . |
| 20 | Would n't have minded sipping pink gins aboard a cruiser myself , but the job 's got to be done and we have got plenty worth fighting for . |
| 21 | The maturing of British cinema between 1939 and 1945 is often seen as a particular response to the conditions of wartime , when filmmakers were called upon to communicate to audiences an idea of ‘ what we are fighting for . ’ |
| 22 | AT a time when there are searching questions about the medical aspect of the sport , it may seem unfortunate that a man who suffers from a disability is fighting for a world title . |
| 23 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 24 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 25 | Like Erich Honecker , a man of similar vintage in East Germany , he spent his formative political years fighting for Communism against the Nazis . |
| 26 | The panel of 175 distinguished authors , scholars , broadcasters and public figures regards correct usage as no longer worth fighting for and trivial , according to a poll of its views to be published on January 8 . |
| 27 | The union is fighting for the reinstatement of 23 sacked journalists . |
| 28 | Dr Gysi had the advantage of being a completely new face in mainstream East German politics , after previously concentrating on defending dissidents and fighting for the recognition of opposition groups . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Tigers , who are fighting for military supremacy in the Tamil-dominated north and east of the island , told a news conference their political wing would be known as the People 's Front of the Liberation Tigers . |