Example sentences of "themselves for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I have tried to do is to highlight the changes of greatest significance to a wider audience ; preparers and auditors of building society accounts will need to refer to the 1992 regulations themselves for a comprehensive assessment of all the changes . |
| 2 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 3 | Romanian troops braced themselves for a Soviet invasion . |
| 4 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 5 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 6 | Lack of childcare facilities not only blocks a job , even if there were one , it prevents single parents doing anything else to prepare themselves for a changing job market . |
| 7 | The Jones boys were busy preparing themselves for a whistle-stop tour of Texas , fuelled by the news from their American promoters that they 'd be playing Dallas and Houston the same nights as GENESIS , and that they were out-selling PHIL ‘ Two Houses ’ COLLINS and his Tory mates by three tickets to one . |
| 8 | These primary qualities are insufficient by themselves for a physical thing , however , since they are possessed by a volume of empty space . |
| 9 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 12 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 13 | The 200 units under her command should brace themselves for a forthright style . |
| 14 | Head of Department : ‘ Quadruple sessions are needed , particularly for ‘ O ’ Level groups , as they must pace themselves for a 3 hour drawing exam . ’ |
| 15 | having found themselves for no good reason sitting together : Liz and Alix discovered that both came from Yorkshire , and that neither played lacrosse , nor had ever seen it being played , and Esther joined the discussion by volunteering that she had herself managed to avoid playing netball for the past three years on the grounds that she was too small . |
| 16 | When Elizabeth 's mother and sister had gone to Leeds , Elizabeth and George had the house to themselves for the first time since the early days of their marriage . |
| 17 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 18 | We will be dealing with all of those existing clients in terms of reassessing both their care needs and their financial ability to contribute to whatever package of care they 're getting , as well as taking on board all the new ones who present themselves for the first time in nineteen ninety four , five . |
| 19 | But we still are left managing those people in ninety four , ninety five , as well as taking on board the new triangles , the one with the horizontal lines , where we 're going to get people presenting themselves for the first time , and requiring services . |
| 20 | Those who were too shy or too inexperienced to pray on those occasions would meet together on a Saturday night to read , to pray and to prepare themselves for the following Sabbath day . |
| 21 | Activity Catechist — the person who ensures that all friends and helpers in the group have what they need to prepare themselves for the sacred experience — both in equipment and atmosphere . |
| 22 | As the Dwarfs steeled themselves for the inevitable assault , there was a loud explosion and the gateway burst apart in a cloud of dust . |
| 23 | The picture , measured by the statistics , has not changed significantly since the Budget a month ago , but consumers who had braced themselves for the biggest cut in living standards ever imposed at a single stroke suddenly find themselves spared . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | what is it about cup ties … why do teams lift themselves for the big game … why ca n't they play like this every week … if they did they ; d be top of the league … |
| 26 | It is a short step from such a view to ‘ blaming ’ older people themselves for the fiscal dilemma , another version of blaming the victim . |
| 27 | At the top of the stairs , somewhere beyond a short , misty journey , Jeopardy led Lucien into a room where a handful of musicians were preparing themselves for the coming performance . |
| 28 | For now , the Strongs wil just have to wait and prepare themselves for the next weekend that Purcell comes home . |
| 29 | FRENCH inventors are being urged to gird themselves for an economic war against foreigners who steal their ideas . |
| 30 | They had prepared themselves for an unpleasant scene in which the wretched boy , stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake , would have to surrender and beg for mercy and then they would have watched the triumphant Trunchbull forcing more and still more cake into the mouth of the gasping boy . |