Sentence examples for had been stage from inspiring English sources

It was intensely black and had many elements — a carousel, a grand hotel elevator and twin escalators — that had been stage sets at previous Vuitton shows.

In April of 1747 friends in the city helped Garrick to raise £8,000, his share of the purchase money for the lease and furnishings of Drury Lane Theatre and renewal of the patent, in partnership with one James Lacy, a failed actor with a flair for the entertainment trade, who had been stage manager at Covent Garden.

The Marx Brothers had been stage performers since the early 1900s.

For the past several weeks, the city of San Cristobal had been stage to some of Venezuela's most violent confrontations between protesters and police.

Though reporters are said to have pondered just how much the event had been stage managed in advance, the images of fearsome-looking Libyan women -- from young teens to grandmothers -- wielding rifles and weapons are nonetheless frightening.

Would western commentators doubt for a moment that the election had been stage-managed?

But it brought criticism from Democrats who suggested it had been stage-managed.

Peris disagreed with Pearson's comments that Monday's event had been "stage-managed".

There was even speculation that the situation had been stage-managed by the palace as a very subtle hint about her desire for the union to stay together.

He had been stage-struck, at least since the age of 12, when he had a two-word part in a comedy by Rabindranath Tagore.

Western correspondents in Iran and Washington never reported that some of the unrest had been stage-managed by C.I.A. agents posing as Communists.