Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 2 | No wonder Mr MacGregor produced his paper and called for full public discussion just as political pundits were tipping him for promotion in a ministerial reshuffle . |
| 3 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Despite the news of investment in programmes worried staff at both stations are bracing themselves for cost cutting and job losses . |
| 9 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 10 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | CHANNEL ferry firms are bracing themselves for Britain 's biggest duty-free drink and cigarettes bonanza tomorrow . |
| 14 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | Helen Carson discovers why the sisters are doin' it for themselves Women building on success |
| 18 | But , with the polls pointing to a hung Parliament , the Whitehall village of permanent civil servants is preparing itself for what one source described as the ‘ nightmare scenario ’ of neither Mr Kinnock nor Mr Major having enough MPs to form a Government or to push a Queen 's Speech through the Commons on May 6 . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the scholars are bracing themselves for more arguements . |
| 20 | The doctors are doing everything for her . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 25 | She longed for some proper clothes too — having to wear one of his large baggy T-shirts was doing nothing for her self-image . |
| 26 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 27 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 28 | All over London the bolts on pub doors were tensing themselves for their daily bid for freedom . |