Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] on [art] verge " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with three Tests to follow in the Republic Kapil should be on the verge of the record by the time England arrive in India after Christmas . |
| 2 | Born in 1930 , so she must be on the verge of retirement now . |
| 3 | Sometimes I cough , as if I might be on the verge of tears . |
| 4 | Maybe that , and any other lesser problems had now been sorted out and we might be on the verge of going home . |
| 5 | Were you worried that I might be on the verge of getting married , too ? |
| 6 | Littlewoods could be on the verge of a decision over the future of the mail-order operations but making the business an irresistible buy will take a dramatic burst of salesmanship by the Moores family which owns this Liverpool group , and their merchant bankers at Kleinwort Benson . |
| 7 | Goram , like the rest of the Ibrox playing staff , understands that his club could be on the verge of something exceptional in their history , and wants to be able to remember everything . |
| 8 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : Britain may be on the verge of a hung Parliament — and a dramatic change in the political landscape . |
| 9 | His call coincided , however , with the mobilisation in Serbia of reservists , suggesting that the Yugoslav army may be on the verge of intervention in the newly independent Bosnia . |
| 10 | Moreover , suspicion may grow in agents ' minds during t - 1 that the government may be on the verge of an about turn on employment policy . |
| 11 | Zimbabwe may be on the verge of abandoning its controversial policy of treating wildlife as a valuable resource , which has led the country to lobby for a revival of the ivory trade and has attracted criticism from conservationists . |
| 12 | Five weeks from the end of the cricket season ; Warwickshire may be on the verge of their first County Championship title for eighteen years . |
| 13 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |