Example sentences of "bracing themselves for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 2 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | All of them were sitting forward in their seats , as if bracing themselves for a collision . |
| 6 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 7 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 8 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 9 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |