Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] on [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many believed these were almost on the point of starting again following secret talks between the two leaders in recent weeks . |
| 2 | She was just on the point of leaving for London when her brother phoned to say that their mother was dying . |
| 3 | I did n't know he was home and I was just on the point of going into her room when I heard him . ’ |
| 4 | The insistence on history as a totality , necessary if historical materialism is to justify itself as true , left Marxism with a fragile category that from the very first was always on the point of breaking apart . |
| 5 | It is more appropriate to accept the view of D. P. Walker that magic was always on the point of turning into art , science , practical psychology , or , above all , religion . |
| 6 | He was man who was always on the point of launching some immense enterprise , a few of which indeed came off while others ended disastrously . |
| 7 | Julia was clearly on the point of accepting but remembering her manners pointed out that since Ian had brought her she could hardly desert him . |
| 8 | My nerves were so strained I was probably on the point of hysteria . |
| 9 | I could tell it was virtually on the point of death . |
| 10 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |