Example sentences of "before the opening " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one small doubt became a huge question mark two days later when , before the opening home game with Arsenal , Knighton took the field in a United playing strip ( having refused the previous day to be photographed holding a United shirt ) and juggled , headed and kicked a football in front of a at first incredulous and then delighted Stretford End . |
| 2 | News of McCartney 's intention to give the woodland , known as Sir John 's Allotment , to the anti hunt protesters was strategically released just days before the opening meet of the Devon and Somerset Stag Hounds . |
| 3 | The negotiations with the American company that will run the facility after the Games have taken an inordinate amount of time by British standards , though not by American , and the completion date is now May 10 , 1991 , barely two months before the opening ceremony . |
| 4 | Mr Kaufman asked why there was no independent process of appeal under the screening procedures and why , if the Government objected to free movement of ‘ economic refugees ’ from Communist countries , ‘ did the Government applaud the movement of such migrants from East to West Germany before the opening of the Berlin Wall ? ’ |
| 5 | At yet another conference , police dogs searching the hall before the opening session broke the teleprompter ! |
| 6 | The South Africans will have only three days to acclimatise before the opening one-day match at Sabina Park next Tuesday . |
| 7 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 8 | With two years before the opening of World Cup ‘ 94 there is an immense amount of work to be done . |
| 9 | She succumbed to an unexpected cerebral haemorrhage at the easel two weeks before the opening . |
| 10 | Thurgoland tunnel north portal before the opening of the new one . |
| 11 | As before , it is the Standard that we turn to and , as a measure of its interest , it devoted 10 column inches to the event in the issue before the opening , and a further 24 inches in the week afterwards ! |
| 12 | The University of Cape Town Ballet had been there before , in 1941 and 1942 , building up local support to the extent that on their third visit , in September 1943 , all six performances in the Great Hall at Milner Park ( the theatre belonging to Witwatersrand University ) were sold out before the opening night . |
| 13 | Though forty-five causes were entered in the list for the March session , ‘ so efficacious did the mere issuing of the summons prove , that this number was reduced by a third before the opening of the court . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , they may still be working a week before the opening . |
| 15 | Before the opening of this church in 1822 , services had been conducted in the consul 's house by the chaplains of ships anchored in the bay . |
| 16 | These were the original fleet of cars delivered before the opening of the system . |
| 17 | Eleven weeks before the opening of the British Empire Exhibition ( where for the first time the King 's speech was transmitted by wireless to every part of the country and many parts of the British Empire ) , the house with every item in place was ready to be presented to both the Queen and the public . |
| 18 | The two narrows are narrow indeed — the first no more than half a mile wide and , before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 , crowded with a mass of shipping . |
| 19 | He was nervous and unsettled before the opening , and suffered from chills and fever , but , in spite of his aversion to conventional " publicity " , he was persuaded to give interviews to the press , although he was never at his best on such occasions . |
| 20 | He refused to give any interviews to the press about the matter and in September , three months before the opening of The Cocktail Party in New York , he asked Sherek to try to ensure that there would be no attempt to obstruct the production . |
| 21 | It was my practice to arrive a day or two before the opening of a National Course in order to prepare the setting for my part in it ; and Basil usually found me in occupation of his normal workroom , setting up displays . |
| 22 | The cast was allowed onto the stage five days before the opening night of the season . |
| 23 | However , this was before the opening of his masterpiece , the London Coliseum , in 1905 . |
| 24 | Usually the committee of the Salon appointed a hanging committee which was automatically and unanimously approved by the general assembly at its annual meeting held a few weeks before the opening of the exhibition . |
| 25 | With just over two months still to go before the opening of the fair , 517 of the 540 stands available have been sold , and the remaining 23 are expected to be taken up shortly . |
| 26 | The Publishers Association is sponsoring the London International Rights Market symposium , on Saturday 20th March 1993 ( the day before the opening of the London International Book Fair ) , at the Forum Hotel , London . |
| 27 | There would only be a couple of weeks left when he returned before the opening at the Fortune Theatre on 17 September . |
| 28 | ‘ I expect you would like to go upstairs to tidy yourself before the opening . ’ |
| 29 | North Korean citizens were given a one-month salary bonus just before the opening of the World Youth Festival in Pyongyang in July . |
| 30 | Disagreements had been obvious since well before the opening of East Germany 's borders . |