Example sentences of "brace [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor is faces up to the most important year of his career , already bracing himself for a row which could undermine his World Cup plans . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 3 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Belfast is bracing itself for a vicious war between rival republican terror groups over drugs . |
| 5 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |
| 6 | If the European Fighter Aircraft fails to go ahead , the Government will have to brace itself for a further jobs bombshell . |
| 7 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines is bracing herself for a legal battle over her decision not to allow the remains of the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , to be returned home from Hawaii for burial . |
| 8 | When I get back to base , bruised and battered , I brace myself for a reception that will make the Day of Judgment look like a Sunday School picnic . |
| 9 | Romanian troops braced themselves for a Soviet invasion . |
| 10 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 11 | President Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania warned on May 18 , in an address to the Lithuanian Supreme Council , that the republic should brace itself for a renewed clampdown by Soviet armed forces in the light of " armed provocations " along the republic 's borders . |
| 12 | BRITAIN must brace itself for an even more violent wave of IRA attacks , RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley warned last night . |
| 13 | The 200 units under her command should brace themselves for a forthright style . |
| 14 | On the livestock side Stuart Ashworth warned that beef producers should brace themselves for a cut in the Beef Special Premium ‘ the base for Scotland is 244,000 male animals but there will be at least 300,000 head this year so we can anticipate a cut of somewhere in the region of 20-25 per cent in BSP payments . |
| 15 | Mr Makwetu told the chanting PAC youths at Sharpeville : ‘ I appeal to you to brace yourselves for a bitter struggle . |
| 16 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 17 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | All of them were sitting forward in their seats , as if bracing themselves for a collision . |
| 21 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 22 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 23 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 24 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 25 | GREAT Portland Estates boss Richard Peskin is warning shareholders to brace themselves for a dividend cut next year . |
| 26 | MEMBERS of the radical black Pan Africanist Congress were told by their leader yesterday to brace themselves for a bitter struggle as they celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre with a fiery demonstration of militancy in the township where the killings occurred . |
| 27 | She had thought long and hard before deciding that it was best for him to hear it from her rather than risk it reaching him through the more sensational tabloids , but she had braced herself for an outburst of shock , anger , even disgust . |