Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 2 | For this in Edinburgh there is a sort of a forum where er organizations are set themselves round the table and say this is what , the sort of idea that we 're gon na do for the next year and a half |
| 3 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 4 | The initial record of all food and drink consumed for a week helped us to see if our clients were depriving themselves of food for long periods and if they were eating balanced meals . |
| 5 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 6 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 7 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 8 | YOUNGSTERS are gorging themselves on junk food — eating up to EIGHT snacks a day . |
| 9 | It seems to me two of the elements are lend themselves to some sort of arithmetical assessment an and the County 's gone through at . |
| 10 | In the field of computer printers companies are readying themselves for the challenge of Europe , Lyndhurst West previews the starting grid . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 15 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 16 | Despite the news of investment in programmes worried staff at both stations are bracing themselves for cost cutting and job losses . |
| 17 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 18 | To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey . |
| 19 | However , to knock down old buildings was to put himself beyond the pale — not before time perhaps , but hardly for the right reason . |
| 20 | Even well-established commercial farmers are finding themselves on a cruel treadmill of soaring capital investment , the financing of which can only be serviced by increasing mortgages based on the rising cost of land . |
| 21 | All proceeds from this charter , which the locomotive owners are running themselves by courtesy of NSE , will go to ensure the continued main line career of Taw Valley . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This seems , this seems a worthwhile thing to do to me , Chairman , this may reflect that , this position that we are in the business cycle that er , you know , with a slightly optimistic outlook , a lot of firms are seeing themselves in a position to expand and , and need this to help them do so . |
| 24 | CHANNEL ferry firms are bracing themselves for Britain 's biggest duty-free drink and cigarettes bonanza tomorrow . |
| 25 | What there is evidence of , however , is the hardship that some auditing firms are causing themselves by feeling forced to put in dangerously over-competitive bids . |
| 26 | Because shareholders can not tell how hard managers are exerting themselves on their behalf , managers have an incentive to shirk . |
| 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 | Another innovation of lenses is seeing yourself without the cover of glasses from a three foot distance for your first time since puberty . |
| 30 | Another innovation of lenses is seeing yourself without the cover of glasses from a three-foot distance for the first time since puberty . |