Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 33 | CHANNEL ferry firms are bracing themselves for Britain 's biggest duty-free drink and cigarettes bonanza tomorrow . |
| 34 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 35 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 36 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Meanwhile the scholars are bracing themselves for more arguements . |
| 39 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 40 | Despite the news of investment in programmes worried staff at both stations are bracing themselves for cost cutting and job losses . |
| 41 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 42 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 43 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 44 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 45 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 48 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 49 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 50 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 51 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 52 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 53 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 54 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 55 | I did n't have another bridesmaid , nor did I have Southall in a cart , which Clare had been training him for , as a surprise for me . |
| 56 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 57 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 58 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 59 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 60 | I bet they 're thanking them for getting two hundred and fifty nicker |