Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] brink " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before being struck by a wave of arrests in 1848 , the most audacious among them — including the flamboyant M. V. Petrashevsky himself — were on the brink of establishing a radical organization . |
| 2 | She and her husband were on the brink of breaking up and she could not cope with personal relationships . |
| 3 | We have thought that we were on the brink of the final synthesis at least twice before . |
| 4 | They were on the brink of sex ; it was a matter of time , she had known — next week , the one after . |
| 5 | Most were on the brink of their longest voyage ever , and many , by their own admission , embarking on one of their most significant adventures . |
| 6 | In 1865 several experimenters were on the brink of discovering the important principle of self-excitation , and early in 1866 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on ‘ A New and Powerful Generator of Dynamic Electricity ’ , but failed to realize that practical self-excitation was within his grasp . |
| 7 | It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 9 | On Jan. 16 the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) reported that hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict were on the brink of starvation in camps to the south of the capital . |
| 10 | Sahnoun said in late July that as many as 5,000 people might be dying each day across the country , 1,500,000 were on the brink of death and 4,500,000 were nearing starvation ; together these figures represented almost the entire population of the country . |
| 11 | Fears that the US-EC trade talks were on the brink of chaos were compounded by MacSharry 's abrupt resignation as EC negotiator on Nov. 5 , amid allegations that his negotiating brief at Chicago had been severely constrained by threats from Jacques Delors , President of the European Commission , that he would veto any agreement involving cuts in the volume of EC farm exports [ see p. 39170 ] . |
| 12 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
| 13 | The UK 's only helicopter manufacturer was on the brink of insolvency . |
| 14 | There were rumours after he had a stroke last March that he was on the brink of retirement and that he wished to go . |
| 15 | It seemed as if Glasgow was on the brink of revolution . |
| 16 | Wells was on the brink of death by consumption when his early work appeared . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Last October when Drouot salerooms carried out their regular annual inspection of Ader Tajan 's accounts , rumours — quickly denied by Drouot Chairman Joel Millon — began circulating that the company was on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At the end of the second world war , Aegina , like most of Greece , was on the brink of death . |
| 23 | Hendrique was on the brink of defeat . |
| 24 | Her father was on the brink of alcoholism , a pathetic figure who could only face life if he had a bottle in his hand . |
| 25 | She was on the brink of defeat . |
| 26 | She knew he was on the brink of orgasm , and was aware of a gathering in her own loins . |
| 27 | At the time there was the recognition that " society was on the brink of a great struggle between property and population " . |
| 28 | When he died Stark 's career was on the brink of still greater success , his posthumously published report on the plans for Edinburgh 's Calton area , in which he advocated attention to contours rather than the imposition of grid plans , having a profound effect on Edinburgh 's town planning . |
| 29 | And he was on the brink , she sensed , of surprising her with a confidence . |
| 30 | Taylor opposed the ECOMOG intervention , apparently regarding its arrival as intervention on the side of Doe just when the latter was on the brink of defeat , and threatened reprisals against nationals of the countries providing troops for ECOMOG . |