Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] be on the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) reported in mid-February that Kurdistan was on the point of collapse and that hundreds of thousands of people were facing starvation as a result of the Iraqi blockade and the cutting of supply lines to Iran by snow and to Turkey by a lorry strike . |
| 2 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 3 | Drilling operations had meanwhile been shifted to the south , and oil was finally struck in Masjid-i-Suleiman on 26 May 1908 , just as D'Arcy and Burmah were on the point of giving up . |
| 4 | We chattered a while and Benjamin was on the point of leaving when the Queen stepped forward . |
| 5 | George and Elizabeth were on the point of going to bed when they heard a knock on the door . |
| 6 | The home itself was pillaged often , and by 1957 both Mary and Terry were on the point of collapse after months existing on half-nights of sleep . |
| 7 | It 's a wonder I did n't kill Benjamin but , when I opened my eyes , two of the rogues were dead of huge gashes between shoulder and neck whilst Benjamin was on the point of driving his sword straight through the breast of a third . |
| 8 | Just as Emily was on the point of replying , the hammering stopped and Mr Zamoyski emerged from the entrance to his workshop . |