The Battle of Kangwha Island was to be just a curtain-raiser for the sad event that took place eight years later. |
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At one time, so I am led to believe, it was considered as a curtain-raiser to Cats but this idea was also abandoned. |
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Audiences should be sure to arrive early for the evening's performance, in order to catch a special curtain-raiser called Seuss Forsooth. |
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Tarantino begins with the logo from a 1970s Hong Kong production company, Shaw Brothers, the curtain-raiser for innumerable fan references. |
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This is a true curtain-raiser, used to kick-start many an event, most recently the NSO's concert at Farmleigh. |
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Played on a wet surface as a curtain-raiser to the main event, the match was not even granted the benefit of ball boys. |
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The curtain-raiser at 5.45 pm will be a Premier league match between Winter Rose and Hellmann Old Selbornians. |
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The only other match this weekend on York waters should provide a curtain-raiser for the big event as Local AC tackle the Palace Ings tomorrow. |
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The curtain-raiser sees Buffaloes and Milo Old Selbornians clash in a Premier league Top Six fixture at 5.30 pm. |
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Fans of Esperance were made to sweat at home to Dynamos, who lost 2-0 at home to Mazembe on their curtain-raiser. |
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Sure to have benefitted from that pipe-opener, Dancing Mystery can show his rivals a clean pair of heels in tomorrow's valuable curtain-raiser. |
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Nascar's curtain-raiser, the Daytona 500, went ahead the next day regardless. |
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The presidential vote is widely seen as a curtain-raiser for a parliamentary election in October. |
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Played as a curtain-raiser to the FBD League final, the performance of the Mayo champions certainly succeeded in the whetting the appetites of all in attendance. |
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Guy Moreau-and curtain-raiser Jérôme Charlebois-in a production directed by Robert Charlebois. |
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As a curtain-raiser to the final, Norway and France played a thrilling third-place match. |
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The 2008 Millennium Development Goals Report will be launched in September as a curtain-raiser to the High-level Event. |
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Iran impressed in the curtain-raiser, an adventurous line-up spearheaded by Shahin Alfaki looking dangerous whenever they went forward. |
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The match was a curtain-raiser for the inaugural festival, which takes place in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg from 4-10 July. |
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The Regent Street event is a fantastic curtain-raiser for the Grand Prix and the opportunity to bring the fans even closer to the sport and their heroes. |
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The Waitakere gaffer will be hoping his team make the most of their chances when they face Sepahan in Friday's curtain-raiser. |
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Spain, who lost 1-0 to Switzerland in their curtain-raiser, rewrote that statistic. |
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The top four in the table based on those results will go into semi-finals, with the final being played as a curtain-raiser to the main York 9s finale. |
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In that event, one of them could be used as a curtain-raiser to a replay. |
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The UEFA Super Cup is traditionally the curtain-raiser to the new European season, but for Liverpool and CSKA it came during a hectic fixture schedule. |
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Contested for the first time since its permanent move to the Stade Louis II, the UEFA Super Cup was now a one-off match, a change to the traditional two-legged format, and acted as the curtain-raiser for the new season. |
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Yet that would only be the curtain-raiser. |
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Gravity provides an altogether more assured curtain-raiser. |
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In all countries, especially in Capitals, the dread conjecture arose that Hitler's latest coup d'état might be the curtain-raiser to a world conflict. |
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The meeting was a curtain-raiser for next year's MDG summit. |
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Since that 1998 edition, the UEFA Super Cup has been staged as a single match at the Stade Louis II in Monaco as a curtain-raiser to the European club season. |
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The UEFA Super Cup acts as the curtain-raiser for the new UEFA club competition season, pitting the winners of the previous season's UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League against each other. |
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The fans will have to wait for the curtain-raiser between Russia and Mexico to explore the stadium themselves, but they have at least been able to glimpse the protagonists up close. |
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With little time to prepare themselves under a new coach, Iraq made a slow start, drawing 1-1 with co-hosts Thailand in the tournament curtain-raiser. |
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The Iranians take on Turkey in the curtain-raiser, while Trinidad and Tobago kick off Group B against Chile seeking to make a name for themselves on the international stage. |
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It was a goal that secured Auckland City a 2-0 victory over local team Al Ahli in the curtain-raiser to the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009, and earned the Kiwi underdogs a quarter-final date with Mexico's Atlante. |
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Faouzi Benzerti's team impressed in defeat in their curtain-raiser against Ghana, while Lesotho's two late goals against Ghana has given their new coach Zavisa Milosavljevic hope for a positive result. |
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But the Real Madrid star was back in the fold on Tuesday and now looks likely to be fit for Saturday's curtain-raiser against Greece. |
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It is my opinion that your part in the affair is only a curtain-raiser to graver things. |
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In addition, curtain-raiser lectures will be held one hour prior to each performance. |
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Arsenal and Liverpool make the unpopular trip to Cardiff for the annual curtain-raiser to the season today, writes Dan Williams. |
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Nuneaton under-11s rugby team were in excellent form when they tackled local rivals Hinckley in a curtain-raiser for a first team fixture at Liberty Way. |
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As a curtain-raiser, McBeal Appeal features interviews with the cast and comments from fans such as Kathy Lette, Mariella Frostrup and Amy Jenkins, creator of This Life. |
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After being placed in the race two years running, Prairie Wolf staged a grandstand finish to win the curtain-raiser in record time 12 months ago. |
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Stuart Moffat will take another step towards achieving his dream Scotland double when he lines up against Wales in the Students Test at Myreside in the A-Test curtain-raiser. |
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The match has been moved from Birr and is now pencilled in as the curtain-raiser ahead of the Division Two football semi-final between Offaly and Kildare. |
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In all fairness, with the size of the papadum and pickle curtain-raiser, we probably never stood a chance. |
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Rather less successful was Campra's Rigaudon from Idomenee, a crashing conversation between the heavy pressure reeds but, nevertheless, a great curtain-raiser. |
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