Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] on [art] brink " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wells was on the brink of death by consumption when his early work appeared . |
| 2 | LEEDS UNITED manager Howard Wilkinson 's bid to take Swedish internationals Patrik Andersson and Joachim Bjorklund to Elland Road was on the brink of collapse last night . |
| 3 | He warned , however , that the perception abroad that Yugoslavia was on the brink of disintegration and civil war was inhibiting foreign investment in the country . |
| 4 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 5 | The experience convinced him that Europe was on the brink of revolution , and he threw himself into revolutionary Anarchist ‘ Situationism ’ , which rejected conventional left-wing political parties . |
| 6 | By 1977 the family had accumulated enough capital , acumen and experience to pull off the property deal of the century : the purchase for $120m of eight Manhattan skyscrapers when the city of New York was on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 7 | It seemed as if Glasgow was on the brink of revolution . |
| 8 | Poland was on the brink , it was only a matter of time before the heel of the jackboot smashed down . |