Sentence examples for a preliminary to from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it was a preliminary to a sex-change operation.

The brunch had been arranged as a preliminary to dedication ceremonies for the new library.

But the document was never seriously intended to be more than a preliminary to invasion.

Males in many species discharge urine on females as a preliminary to copulation.

In the latest tape, he promised that the Cole attack was only a preliminary to new strikes.

The contest was a preliminary to the National Traditional Old-Time Findlers' Contest, in Barre in early October.

Balanchine studied his scores intensively as a preliminary to composition and began dance creation only at the first rehearsal.

Sir Leonard Dunning, Home Office inspector of Constabulary, has had long interviews with the local authorities as a preliminary to the inquiry.

The county council believed the land was not suitable for a windfarm and refused Ecotricity's initial application for a "met mast", a preliminary to the windfarm.

Last week a federal judge as a preliminary to ruling on the possibility decided that he could at least stand in his Justicialist Party's primary.

Alfred's capture of London in 886 and the resultant acceptance of him by all the English outside the Danish areas was a preliminary to this reconquest.