Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] verge " in BNC.
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| 1 | David had always liked Mott The Hoople and admired them , and I think it was one of the few really unselfish acts he did when , when they were on the verge of breaking up , he wrote them a song — ‘ All The Young Dudes ’ . |
| 2 | It was her solitary research and activism during the 1970s which alerted the world to the fact that despite the end of large-scale hunting in the 1950s , numbers had continued to decline , and the whales were on the verge of extinction . |
| 3 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 4 | He and his wife Brooke Hayward were on the verge of divorce — they finally split up in 1969 . |
| 5 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 6 | Drawing with Iran and getting beat by Costa Rica are a great enough indignity , but coping with the knowledge that star players were on the verge of assaulting a policeman with a Hush Puppy is pushing loyalty to the limits . |
| 7 | Despite a general rise in attendances , several clubs were on the verge of bankruptcy and limped from one financial problem to another playing in front of miniscule crowds often in grounds designed to suit manic-depressives from the dark ages . |
| 8 | Do you know you were on the verge of rank insubordination ? |
| 9 | Their debts were on the verge of managing them . |
| 10 | PAUL MORLEY travelled to Ireland to spend a weekend with the band who , he felt , were on the verge of greatness . |
| 11 | The students at Beida , some of whom were on the verge of taking to the streets , probably feared the possible repercussions and with the end of term imminent , they decided that open protest was not worth the risk . |
| 12 | Times were not good , we had basically clung to outdated ideas and we were on the verge of closing . |
| 13 | About how the band were on the verge of splitting up . |
| 14 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 15 | ‘ This modern peril of the streets ’ , it was observed , ‘ created something like a reign of terror ’ in which ‘ whole sections of a peaceable city community were on the verge of arming themselves against sudden attack ’ . |
| 16 | We eventually got the repairs done free of charge , despite the fact that we were on the verge of receiving a repair bill totalling £100 . |
| 17 | Such drastic action seemed a heartless waste of resources when thousands of people were on the verge of starvation . |
| 18 | Some ten years earlier , Arthur Young had already noted the discord between the natural beauty of the landscape and what man had done to it , but he saw , too — and painters also were on the verge of seeing it — that an unrestrained industrial landscape has a considerable element of sublimity about it . |
| 19 | Marek 's tremble quickened , as though he were on the verge of taking a decision . |
| 20 | His knees looked to Bernice as if they were on the verge of buckling . |
| 21 | Gebrec stared coldly back at him and Melissa sensed that they were on the verge of a confrontation , but Bonard 's attention was diverted by the approach of the members of his class , who had begun to emerge from the house . |
| 22 | There was evidence that passers-by were annoyed , and were on the verge of resorting to violence when the police intervened . |
| 23 | On one occasion , he told the guests , ‘ you might have believed that we were on the verge of adding 3,500 redundancies to the total of Scottish unemployed . |
| 24 | ‘ We were on the verge of letting him go because we had George Reilly and a couple of other strikers on the books . |
| 25 | They were on the verge of finishing when Silas came to the kitchen . |
| 26 | The Bangladesh government said on Feb. 24 that thousands were on the verge of starvation because relief efforts were inadequate . |
| 27 | For a moment , it appeared that his intransigence might pay off : many of his opponents in the MRP and Socialist Party were on the verge of losing their nerve and submitting to his ultimatum . |
| 28 | We were on the verge of an affair , but the moment he met you everything came to a dead stop . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 30 | A rumour that Oxford were on the verge of takeover 3 weeks ago came to nothing , while Richard Branson and the boxing promoter Frank Warren have both denied they 're ready to buy . |