Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was [prep] the verge " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , after almost fifty years of problems , the Club was on the verge of a breakthrough , although at the time did not know it . |
| 2 | Fears that the economy was on the verge of a recession eased following the report that unemployment had held steady in August at 5.2 per cent , however , adult unemployment rose by 50,000 or 0.1 per cent , in September 1989 . |
| 3 | This was fortunate for us , as the car with four large occupants and all the luggage was on the verge of overload . |
| 4 | A government appeal in July to the Supreme Court , increased in size by presidential decree in April 1990 , allowed the privatization of the state airline Aeorolíneas Argentinas to proceed , although by March 1991 the sale was on the verge of collapse [ see pp. 37529 ; 37608 ; 37773 ; 38096 ] . |
| 5 | It seemed shocking that he should feel he had a right to complain about being woken up when the country was on the verge of civil war . |
| 6 | Mr Lewis said the country was on the verge of having to use military camps , off loading prison and police cells to cope with the growing number of those being jailed . |
| 7 | And in the 1960s , the breed was on the verge of extinction . |
| 8 | What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed . |