Example sentences of "be [v-ing] themselves for " in BNC.
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| 1 | OVER THERE , but thankfully not expected here in the near future : US TV audiences are bracing themselves for Roseanne : the cartoon , and an animated series featuring New Kids On The Block … |
| 2 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 3 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 4 | CHANNEL ferry firms are bracing themselves for Britain 's biggest duty-free drink and cigarettes bonanza tomorrow . |
| 5 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 6 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 7 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 8 | And Ireland 's top traditional dancers are bracing themselves for even more misery at the end of this month when the 18-year-old whizz-kid is due to return for the World Championships in Dublin . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the scholars are bracing themselves for more arguements . |
| 10 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 11 | Despite the news of investment in programmes worried staff at both stations are bracing themselves for cost cutting and job losses . |
| 12 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 13 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 14 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 15 | So if we 've got somebody earning nine thousand , they 're going to want to know why they 're insuring themselves for a hundred thousand on living insurance benefit . |
| 16 | Gloucester started as favourites to win this one … and in a game of penalties must have been kicking themselves for not doing better … |
| 17 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 18 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 19 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
| 20 | When you 're bottom , a point never goes amiss — but United will be kicking themselves for not taking all 3 in London last night , after throwing away a 2 goal lead . |
| 21 | Distillery played with great spirit but Crusaders must be kicking themselves for the chances they threw away . |
| 22 | City will be kicking themselves for allowing Cranfield to get back into the game , but the visitors must be given credit for a spirited second half performance . |
| 23 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 24 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 25 | WHILE Harlequins were yesterday contemplating the Mystery of the Missing Lock , Leicester , the club they beat in Saturday 's Pilkington Cup semi-finals , were gearing themselves for another wearing match tonight . |
| 26 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 27 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 28 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 29 | They had demolished Leeds in such a pyschologically damaging fashion on Saturday at Maine Road that Howard Wilkinson 's side were steeling themselves for disappointment . |
| 30 | At the top of the stairs , somewhere beyond a short , misty journey , Jeopardy led Lucien into a room where a handful of musicians were preparing themselves for the coming performance . |