Example sentences of "brace themselves for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romanian troops braced themselves for a Soviet invasion . |
| 2 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 3 | The 200 units under her command should brace themselves for a forthright style . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 6 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | All of them were sitting forward in their seats , as if bracing themselves for a collision . |
| 10 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 11 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 12 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 13 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 14 | GREAT Portland Estates boss Richard Peskin is warning shareholders to brace themselves for a dividend cut next year . |
| 15 | 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 . |