Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the verge " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : Britain may be on the verge of a hung Parliament — and a dramatic change in the political landscape . |
| 6 | Littlewoods could be on the verge of a decision over the future of the mail-order operations but making the business an irresistible buy will take a dramatic burst of salesmanship by the Moores family which owns this Liverpool group , and their merchant bankers at Kleinwort Benson . |
| 7 | His call coincided , however , with the mobilisation in Serbia of reservists , suggesting that the Yugoslav army may be on the verge of intervention in the newly independent Bosnia . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | JAPANESE engineers claim to be on the verge of building the world 's most efficient Stirling , or heat ’ exchange , engine . |
| 10 | Delaney and Forster exchanged quick , worried glances , for the man seemed to be on the verge of total derangement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sometimes I cough , as if I might be on the verge of tears . |
| 13 | But with three Tests to follow in the Republic Kapil should be on the verge of the record by the time England arrive in India after Christmas . |
| 14 | And adults do not need to be on the verge of shouting or crying for these mechanisms to be involved . |
| 15 | Obispal sounded to be on the verge of deducing the truth . |
| 16 | ‘ Metazoan Phylogeny ’ is exciting to play , and we may , at last , be on the verge of working out some of the rules of the game . |
| 17 | Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty . |
| 18 | I had flashes of recall so many times seemed to be on the verge of knowing who I really was . |
| 19 | Maybe that , and any other lesser problems had now been sorted out and we might be on the verge of going home . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Comando Quintín Lamé ( Quintín Lamé Commando , thought to be on the verge of demobilizing — see below for current guerrilla demobilizations ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After suffering serious losses , Onoue was reported to be on the verge of bankruptcy with debts of 410,000 million yen . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Every time she seemed to be on the verge of making some sort of breakthrough , new questions came up . |
| 26 | Withdrawal was necessary because the American war in Vietnam appeared to the General to be on the verge of widening into a larger conflict . |
| 27 | Moreover , suspicion may grow in agents ' minds during t - 1 that the government may be on the verge of an about turn on employment policy . |
| 28 | Born in 1930 , so she must be on the verge of retirement now . |
| 29 | Zimbabwe may be on the verge of abandoning its controversial policy of treating wildlife as a valuable resource , which has led the country to lobby for a revival of the ivory trade and has attracted criticism from conservationists . |
| 30 | Were you worried that I might be on the verge of getting married , too ? |