Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] themselves for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the field of computer printers companies are readying themselves for the challenge of Europe , Lyndhurst West previews the starting grid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 7 | Despite the news of investment in programmes worried staff at both stations are bracing themselves for cost cutting and job losses . |
| 8 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 9 | It is said that the men of Israel are to prepare themselves for three days for this awesome disclosure of God by not going near a woman ( Exod. |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | CHANNEL ferry firms are bracing themselves for Britain 's biggest duty-free drink and cigarettes bonanza tomorrow . |
| 13 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | Meanwhile the scholars are bracing themselves for more arguements . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the three pioneers are readying themselves for a surge of interest : Marcos has appointed its Coventry engine supplier , JE Engineering , as its first distributor , Westfield is looking at a trio of dealers and Caterham plans to appoint half a dozen Rover distributors as service agents for the K-series engine that will power its first ‘ turn-key ’ car . |
| 18 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 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 | Seventhly , if the German states were to express themselves for initiating movement toward German unity , would they be ready to take into consideration the interests of other European states and to seek , on a mutually acceptable collective basis , answers to all questions and problems that might arise in that regard ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 23 | Christie 's braced themselves for the golf fanatics for their 19 February sale , which featured three paintings by Sir John Lavery , one of them being a vista of the famous Golf Links , North Berwick ( est. $60–80,000 ) , which sold to London dealer Titus Kendall for $110,000 ( £63,200 ) . |
| 24 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 25 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |
| 26 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 27 | All over London the bolts on pub doors were tensing themselves for their daily bid for freedom . |