Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the field of computer printers companies are readying themselves for the challenge of Europe , Lyndhurst West previews the starting grid . |
| 2 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 3 | While all you fairweather golfers were fattening yourselves for the spring sunshine , I was running 15 miles a week in an effort to gain the necessary fitness for a 27-tournament season . |
| 4 | To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey . |
| 5 | Amid the disillusionment felt by some , that the minority of farmers are spoiling it for the rest in not keeping the environment clean , one manufacturer at least , hopes not dampened by the weather , felt there was room for optimism . |
| 6 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |