Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] threshold of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , one social services department studied targeted its preventive services on those families with severe problems whose children were on the threshold of care , that is , tertiary level . |
| 2 | Here , we at least were on the threshold of a new life , with all its endless possibilities . |
| 3 | Thus by the 1770s they were on the threshold of a national discipline-orientated community . |
| 4 | This time last year , most of us believed that we were on the threshold of a new era of peace and co-operation in international affairs . |
| 5 | Her fresh-faced expression gazing as it were on the threshold of life is a poignant reminder of the passing of time and finite nature of dreams . |
| 6 | The military world was on the threshold of far-reaching revolutionary changes in weapon technology , not only in atomic weapons , but also in propulsion systems , missile guidance and electronics generally . |
| 7 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
| 8 | Succeeding the ailing Sir Frank Soskice as a young Home Secretary in December 1965 , at the age of forty-five Jenkins was on the threshold of a dazzling career . |