Example sentences of "be on [art] fringes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who depend entirely for their income on the state pension and means-tested income support benefits are likely to be on the fringes of unacceptable poverty unless the level of benefits is increased . |
| 2 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Beyond the fringe Nicky Mason , who has been on the fringes of England 's best men 's team for 30 years , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory that he can still … |
| 4 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 5 | He never knew his father , his uncles were on the fringes of crooked activity and his drunken step-father sold second-hand cars . |
| 6 | To encourage himself as much as anything , he ventured a handful of general questions about Neferukhebit 's activities on the days leading up to her death — questions which resulted in conventional answers , the activities of any rich young girl marking time between the end of her education and the arrival of her husband — for these girls were on the fringes of the royal household , and work such as Taheb did — was taboo to their class . |
| 7 | It is on the fringes of higher education , through its contribution to research , which provides an educational resource for students . |