Example sentences of "[noun] 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 | And I would have lost the chance to sail across the Pacific with Ellen , because Ellen was on the verge of agreeing to come with me , and if I had not yielded to the policeman 's blackmail I would have lost Ellen as well as my boat . |
| 3 | RESTAURANT group Simpsons of Cornhill was on the verge today of being swallowed up by holiday and printing company Baldwin in a deal worth £1.7m . |
| 4 | A few seasons ago , the much-travelled primary schoolteacher was on the verge of a full international appearance , but had to be satisfied with a B cap against Scotland in Galway . |
| 5 | The US junk bond market suffered its latest setback yesterday after buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts said one of its companies was on the verge of bankruptcy , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |
| 6 | Much of the manufacturing sector was on the verge of total collapse , with a catastrophic fall in the level of industrial production . |
| 7 | By the end of the 1940s , Spain was on the verge of a major economic crisis , because the country 's infrastructure was incapable of sustaining the programme of self-sufficiency adopted for political reasons in 1939 . |
| 8 | After 75 years the founders ' aim was on the verge of realisation . |
| 9 | The deceased 's solicitor , Eustace Tolby , attested that Newley was on the verge of instituting divorce proceedings against his wife . |
| 10 | When 5 Corps had first been informed by Gen Schmidt-Richberg of the approach of 600,000 Germans and Croats to the southern edge of the Corps area on the evening of 13 May , it had been assumed that this huge mass of fugitives was on the verge of entering Austria and that it would be difficult to prevent all of them from doing so . |
| 11 | Both sides now were in need of respite ; peace endured until 1369 when the French , refreshed and led by a new and able young monarch , Charles V , confronted the English whose king was on the verge of senility and whose government was divided . |
| 12 | CHART star Anita Dels was on the verge of quitting her high-flying pop career after a nervous breakdown . |
| 13 | Another plant which made military uniforms was on the verge of closure for lack of orders from Moscow . |
| 14 | By the end of the 1980s the Nicaraguan economy was on the verge of collapse . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 17 | What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed . |
| 18 | When he was looking to expand into Scotland , Britain was on the verge of joining the Common Market , a move Conran , a staunch European at the time , embraced with great enthusiasm . |
| 19 | It was the speed at which the decline occurred which led to wild suggestions that Britain was on the verge of a race suicide . |
| 20 | Britain was on the verge of restoring diplomatic relations , albeit only partially , with Iran . |
| 21 | This was fortunate for us , as the car with four large occupants and all the luggage was on the verge of overload . |
| 22 | Lizzy was on the verge of hysteria . |
| 23 | Just a fortnight ago , 23-year-old Jemson was on the verge of re-joining Forest in a £1million-plus swap deal which would have taken Kingsley Black to Hillsborough . |
| 24 | When Oscar found him , Mr Jones was on the verge of dying from hypothermia . |
| 25 | Standing in the Platz in her elegant coat and furs Erika was on the verge of tears : first the books were thrown on to the flames and then , in a terrible and inevitable sequence , human beings were put into the incinerators . |
| 26 | Delaney 's hand was on the verge of touching the blackened , grotesque head when , without warning , the scene was bathed in the harsh , piercing light of a flare . |
| 27 | Its contents and tone led him to suspect that Diana was on the verge of quitting The Firm . |
| 28 | Ferris was on the verge of signing for Linfield last season but has decided now to pledge his immediate future to the Lurgan club , who are expected to announced a major kit sponsorship shortly . |
| 29 | 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 ] . |
| 30 | On June 10 , 1990 , the right-wing Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) ended a two-day annual conference with a warning that Poland was on the verge of a major social explosion as a result of economic reform . |