Example sentences of "brace [pron] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Belfast is bracing itself for a vicious war between rival republican terror groups over drugs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Streisand took the flak and Twentieth Century-Fox executives braced themselves for a financial disaster . |
| 4 | Romanian troops braced themselves for a Soviet invasion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The 200 units under her command should brace themselves for a forthright style . |
| 7 | Mr Makwetu told the chanting PAC youths at Sharpeville : ‘ I appeal to you to brace yourselves for a bitter struggle . |
| 8 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 9 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 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 . |