Example sentences of "been campaigning for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade unions , the Industrial Society , and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service have been campaigning for years to improve employees ' rights over their retirement income . |
| 2 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 3 | I had been campaigning for Dewey night and day for six months . |
| 4 | Anti-EC groups , backed by businessmen , have been campaigning for a ‘ no ’ vote and are six to eight percentage points ahead in the polls . |
| 5 | Academics have been writing books and articles ; Charter 88 has been campaigning for constitutional reform ; citizenship is to be incorporated in the National Curriculum in the schools ; and a commission under the august patronage of the Speaker of the House of Commons published a report entitled Encouraging Citizenship in October 1990 . |
| 6 | Since the 1970s Scandinavia , and in particular Sweden and Norway , has been campaigning for other countries to drastically cut sulphur and nitrogen oxide emissions . |
| 7 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 8 | Women have been campaigning for equality for a long time . |
| 9 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 10 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 11 | A practical outcome from this incident was a new pair of deck shoes for Marty who had been campaigning for a replacement from Stores Branch for some time . |
| 12 | Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day . |
| 13 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 14 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 15 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 16 | Water companies in many EC countries have been campaigning for a review of standards , arguing that many are unnecessary and expensive to implement . |
| 17 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 18 | Since Gooding 's detention in Coney Hill , the city 's MP has been campaigning for his transfer to more secure premises . |
| 19 | An MP who 's been campaigning for years to have the road improved said tonight that he 'll be pressing the government yet again to have it upgraded to a dual carriageway . |
| 20 | People in Upton on Severn have been campaigning for a month against plans to open a treatment centre for twenty six child abusers in a country house near their village . |
| 21 | Since the final stretch through Oxfordshire opened nearly three years ago motoring organisations and the police have been campaigning for service areas to be built so that drivers can take a break . |
| 22 | The police federation and Association of Chief Police Officers have been campaigning for the introduction of sidehandled batons . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 25 | ‘ The only way this is going to end is by political resolution and that is what we have been campaigning for . |
| 26 | The district council decision has been welcomed by a Conservative councillor , Alan Trotter , who has been campaigning for action , with regional Councillor Fred Ratky . |
| 27 | There has been a marked increase in the number of women working in isolated areas and the G M B has been campaigning for improvements in safety on public transport , a campaign which must continue . |
| 28 | This is something that the G M B have been campaigning for since nineteen ninety . |
| 29 | I think it 's a most disgraceful system quite honestly , and my own party , and the Liberal Party before that , have been campaigning for years to get a fairer system , but there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this unfortunately . |
| 30 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |