Example sentences of "bracing themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 2 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 7 | CHANNEL ferry firms are bracing themselves for Britain 's biggest duty-free drink and cigarettes bonanza tomorrow . |
| 8 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 9 | All of them were sitting forward in their seats , as if bracing themselves for a collision . |
| 10 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 11 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the scholars are bracing themselves for more arguements . |
| 15 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 16 | Despite the news of investment in programmes worried staff at both stations are bracing themselves for cost cutting and job losses . |
| 17 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |