Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [art] brink " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions were raised in the House of Commons about a group of local hippies arrested early in 1967 , and local MPs vied with each other to be in the vanguard of efforts to control the ‘ army of secret drug takers in the area … ( who need to be ) brought back from the brink of madness ’ ( Newcastle Evening Chronicle : 27 February 1967 ) . |
| 2 | She could go down in history as the leader who pulled us back from the brink . ’ |
| 3 | But some sort of step back from the brink was essential . |
| 4 | In the starkest expression so far of the choice he believes the country faces tomorrow , the Labour leader launched an 11th-hour appeal to bring the Health Service back from the brink of destruction . |
| 5 | The Arts : Lenny stands back from the brink of bathos |
| 6 | Labour leaders were quick to praise Mr Kinnock 's achievement in pulling the party back from the brink of disintegration in 1983 , when it was almost beaten into third place . |
| 7 | Some essential honesty about it brings it back from the brink . |
| 8 | Arlington Mill is one of those mills that was pulled back from the brink of destruction in the nick of time . |
| 9 | But in the end she pulled back from the brink , conscious of Charles 's silent but reproachful figure hovering on the edge of her vision . |
| 10 | This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest . |
| 11 | Fast , quick-witted and determined as a player , demanding and insistent as a manager , there was little doubt that he would snatch his career back from the brink of failure . |
| 12 | BACK FROM THE BRINK |
| 13 | HERO policewoman Leslie Harrison , fighting back from the brink of death after being stabbed with a screwdriver , vowed from her hospital bed yesterday : ‘ I love the job . |
| 14 | The sport itself and the money , shelter them from the kind of rough-and-ready exchange that brings ordinary people back from the brink of conflict and leads them to see their adversaries as people . |
| 15 | Major loyalist John Watts said : ‘ We are back from the brink . ’ |
| 16 | Using all the healing lore he had learned in the White Tower he managed to summon Tyrion 's spirit back from the brink of the abyss . |
| 17 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 18 | But we were pulled back from the brink ; the attempt failed . |
| 19 | ‘ I brought it back from the brink , made the farm , forestry , the shoot self-supporting . |
| 20 | But when you know without a shadow of a doubt that , even without doing anything clever , you have pulled an animal back from the brink of death into the living , breathing world , it is a satisfaction which lingers , flowing like balm over the discomforts and frustrations of veterinary practice , making everything right . |
| 21 | For a moment she wanted to rebel , to pull back from the brink even at this stage of the game . |
| 22 | He was rewarded by the happiness which showed in Pam 's eyes , when he told her he was quite sure she had indeed called him back from the brink of death . |
| 23 | BACK FROM THE BRINK |
| 24 | A garden tractor company has bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy to become a market leader … despite the recession . |
| 25 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 26 | THE man who pulled the Conservatives ' favourite advertising agency , Saatchi & Saatchi , back from the brink , yesterday confirmed his departure . |
| 27 | McAllister had five birdies in the space of seven inward holes to turn back from the brink of disaster . |
| 28 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 29 | In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink . |
| 30 | A MOTHER who tragically lost two daughters in separate accidents last night told how her third daughter has fought back from the brink of death . |