Example sentences of "to [be] on [art] verge " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southeastern Asset Management , a US group , was said to be on the verge of selling on its 10 per cent stake . |
| 2 | Willis Faber , the insurance broker said to be on the verge of selling its 20.5 per cent shareholding in MG to a potential bidder , was unchanged at 242p . |
| 3 | Across the nation aristocratic backwoodsmen , a tribe previously thought to be on the verge of extinction , tottered off to the nearest railway station to obey the summons . |
| 4 | For the moment , however , he allowed the affair to subside , partly because Spain herself appeared to be on the verge of civil war , and as a consequence even less attractive to any possible monarch , and partly because he was awaiting developments in France where the regime appeared to be entering a moment of crisis . |
| 5 | JAPANESE engineers claim to be on the verge of building the world 's most efficient Stirling , or heat ’ exchange , engine . |
| 6 | Delaney and Forster exchanged quick , worried glances , for the man seemed to be on the verge of total derangement . |
| 7 | In its most overweaning forms , anthropism seems to be on the verge of substituting Man for God , by hinting that consciousness , unbound by time 's arrow , causes creation . |
| 8 | And adults do not need to be on the verge of shouting or crying for these mechanisms to be involved . |
| 9 | Obispal sounded to be on the verge of deducing the truth . |
| 10 | Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty . |
| 11 | I had flashes of recall so many times seemed to be on the verge of knowing who I really was . |
| 12 | Just at the moment when the establishment figures on both sides of the Atlantic were talking about substantial cuts in military spending , when the role of the hawkish political leaders was being eclipsed , when the United States seemed to be floating away from its international role , and new self-confident Europe seemed to be on the verge of creation , Iraq invaded Kuwait . |
| 13 | Comando Quintín Lamé ( Quintín Lamé Commando , thought to be on the verge of demobilizing — see below for current guerrilla demobilizations ) . |
| 14 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 15 | After suffering serious losses , Onoue was reported to be on the verge of bankruptcy with debts of 410,000 million yen . |
| 16 | The negotiations on the country 's constitutional framework appeared to be on the verge of a breakthrough in early February , when a joint commission of the Czech and Slovak National Councils ( republican parliaments ) agreed on a draft text defining the relationship of the republics in a future federation . |
| 17 | Every time she seemed to be on the verge of making some sort of breakthrough , new questions came up . |
| 18 | Withdrawal was necessary because the American war in Vietnam appeared to the General to be on the verge of widening into a larger conflict . |
| 19 | He says : ‘ There have always been mail orders firms and telephone shopping and , at one stage , we were supposed to be on the verge of TV shopping . |
| 20 | Three operations are said to be on the verge of bankruptcy because their claims — submitted through the ‘ one door ’ compensation office in Lerwick — have not been met . |