Example sentences of "[prep] the stage [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On leaving Oxford without a degree he studied for the stage at the Embassy Theatre School , and made his London début at the Queen 's Theatre on 6 September 1937 with ( Sir ) John Gielgud in Shakespeare 's Richard II . |
| 2 | Mr Dass could n't understand how a set of curtains for the stage at the Easter Fete could have driven a boy to such ends . |
| 3 | In 1959 The Once and Future King was adapted for the stage as a musical called Camelot , by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe . |
| 4 | It is not formally structured as it is in the ballets of other countries where choreographers are more likely to present the traditional dance itself , slightly adapted for the stage with the footwork more complicated . |
| 5 | To achieve such a blend of the absurd and the tragic , the writing as well as the acting have to be of exceptional quality — and Courtenay has drawn his inspiration from a remarkable novel by Venedikt Yerofeev which has been adapted for the stage by Stephen Mulrine . |
| 6 | Normally detected during the stage of progressive proofs . |
| 7 | While this delay may not cause difficulties for the production of the final version of a map it is an inefficient way to proceed during the stage of map design . |
| 8 | It is true that his definition of Rachel as " reste [ and ] goosteli swettenesse in deuocioun and contemplacion " , and " grace of deuocioun and reste in conscience " ( 31 – 2. 351 – 2,360 – 1 ) seems to correspond with his thinking about the stage of spiritual development which he describes in Scale 1 chapter seven as preceding an experience where man 's awareness in love of the life within him as Christ , is expressed as a " mariage made bitwix god and soule " ( 8.283a. – 82 ) . |
| 9 | She would do well to learn more , from books or from other parents , about the stage through which the step-children are passing . |
| 10 | I should think so when there are eight fascinating female forms in it , turning , twisting , pirouetting and corkscrewing about the stage at any one time . |
| 11 | In desperate need of love vibes , the audience descended like a pack of ravenous wolves on St Etienne , not least because this duo of Thunderbird puppets in polo necks are now fronted solely by Stephanie , a dead ringer for the teenage Bardot who gambols about the stage in such a display of unrestrained delight , that you think ‘ this is the real thing ’ . |
| 12 | I was surprised at the violence of his remorse — after all , he had only hit me — and I remember thinking , quite irrelevantly , how much more true to life the old dramatists were than modern ones , making their characters utter loud cries and throw themselves about the stage in moments of anguish , rather than deliver their parts poker-faced , through stiff lips . |
| 13 | The Giffens were the actors , and they were moving quite happily about the stage in obedience to some unseen stage-manager . |
| 14 | ‘ Doppelganger ’ and ‘ Fait Accompli ’ pummel and pound , Toni 's scarlet voice twinkling and cutting above the sex dream noise terror , Dean and twin guitarists Debbie and Alex scuttling about the stage like possessed arsonists fanning a terrible flame . |
| 15 | Washington programme administrators have estimated that the total cost through the stage of commercialisation , will approximate $15 billion . ’ |
| 16 | The essentials of the existing programme , Brezhnev explained , were still valid , but twenty years had elapsed since its adoption and there were many developments it had failed to record , among them the fact that Soviet society was proceeding to communism through the stage of ‘ developed socialism ’ . |
| 17 | Students can pass through the stage of giving reasons for their beliefs and actions to enlightenment and emancipation ; disciplines can become more open and more self-critical ; and institutions can go on becoming more and more rational . |
| 18 | The nature of those sources is part of the explanation : no comic play survives in anything like complete form earlier than the beginning of the Peloponnesian War , and Thucydides for artistic reasons ( like Tacitus delaying the introduction of Sejanus until the opening of the second half of his six ‘ Tiberian ’ books ) , delays the introduction of the arch-demagogue Kleon until Pericles is off the stage for good . |
| 19 | Off the stage of the Hackney Empire they do n't exist . |
| 20 | The cyclist 's eldest child was peforming at his school 's nativity play and was led off the stage to be told of his father 's death . |
| 21 | The reasons Morrissey got booed off the stage at the Madness gig is because the Nazis that were allowed in do n't like anything remotely to do with diversity in music or anything else . |
| 22 | An amusing instance of this comes when Orlando , romantic lover whose normal level is verse , enters unknowingly on to a prose-scene with one blank-verse line : ‘ Good day and happiness , dear Rosalind ! ’ at which Jaques instantly observes with disgust , ‘ Nay then God buy you , an' you talk in blank verse ’ , marching off the stage in a huff ( As You Like It , IV.i.30f. : his exit is unaccountably not marked in the Riverside edition ) . |
| 23 | Time after time I used to land up off the stage in tears . |
| 24 | Since Marxists have been more concerned to analyse the workings of capitalist societies than to draw up blueprints of collective organization after the state has withered away ( an exercise which in any case Marx regarded as Utopian and unscientific ) , it is not easy to piece together a communist theory of administration , in the sense of a model for society after the stage of socialism , during which the dictatorship of the proletariat systematically removed the material foundation of state repression . |
| 25 | He arranged a row of 80 telephone mouthpieces across the front of the stage at the Grand Opera in Paris , and connected them by wires to 80 earpieces . |
| 26 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 27 | In the existing School Assembly Hall the introduction of sound resisting sliding folding partitions across the Assembly Hall stage allowed the creation of a new Drama Studio without impairing the use of the stage for other functions . |
| 28 | Greek theatres had a depressed area in front of the stage for dancers who leapt about during and between acts and scenery changes . |
| 29 | Maggie LeMan kept her eyes riveted on the occupants of the stage for a moment , where they were bowing and making the best of the half-hearted appreciation now being shown by clapping punctuated with cat-calls ; then , slowly leaning to the side , she picked up the bird cage as she said , ‘ What do I want with a concert party ? |
| 30 | In terms of the stage of the disease , the majority were Dukes ' stage B ( 35% ) or C ( 33% ) , with only a few in Dukes ' stage A ( 12% ) . |