Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.

Before joining Hawkwind, he recalled Dik Mik, a former Hawkwind sound technician, visiting his squat in the middle of the night and taking speed with him.

Before taking any steps to meet the wishes of Michael, Louis asked the pope's permission for a number of his bishops to assemble and make a selection of passages from the Fathers to elucidate the question that the Greeks had put before them.

Before taking effect though, the Franco-Soviet pact was required to go through the bureaucracy of the League of Nations, which rendered it essentially toothless.

Before taking the auspicia impetrativa (" requested " or " sought " auspices ; see below ) the templum, or sacred space within which the operation would take place had to be established and delimited ( it should be square and have only one entrance ) and purified ( effari, liberare ).

Before the RTAA, if Congress wanted to establish a lower tariff for particular imports, it would act unilaterally, taking the foreign country ’ s tariff rate as fixed.

Before taking the shot, he said to himself, " Now they'll never be able to save your brain, Hitler.

Before taking office an Ambassador's credentials must be accepted.

Before proceeding to Bulgaria, Prince Alexander paid visits to the Tsar at Livadia, to the courts of the great powers and to the sultan ; a Russian warship then conveyed him to Varna, and after taking the oath to the new constitution at Turnovo ( 8 July 1879 ) he went to Sofia.

Before taking this step, the judicial committee must determine that the individual has committed a " serious sin " and that there is no evidence of true repentance.

Before he could return to heaven and report to Olodumare however, his rival Oduduwa ( also called Oduwa, Oodua, Odudua or Eleduwa ) and younger brother usurped his position by taking the satchel and created in his stead the earth on the Primeval Ocean.

Before taking up a scholarship to study at University College, Oxford, Sorley spent a little more than six months in Germany, three months of which were at Schwerin studying the language and local culture.

Before the advent of modern aids dead reckoning was widely used in air navigation, taking into account displacement of position caused by wind as far as possible, often using a tool called a wind triangle.

Before he was to report, he committed suicide by drinking poison after taking a bath and dressing in fine silk robes.

Before taking up the post of Assistant Professor at the Rice Institute, Huxley spent a year in Germany preparing for his demanding new job.

Before taking the shot, Gigante called out, " This is for you Frank!

Before taking the " final plunge " into Control's scheme, Leamas makes Liz promise not to look for him, no matter what she hears, and says good-bye to her.

Before taking one's seat, and after rising at the end of the period of zazen, Zen practitioners perform a gassho bow to their seat, and a second bow to fellow practitioners.

Before implementing a BI solution, it is worth taking different factors into consideration before proceeding.

Before taking up her current position, Wolf taught at Harvard University, the University of Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins University.

Before taking provisions into the nest, the Sphex first inspects the nest, leaving the prey outside.

Before taking power, the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party tried successfully to recruit military officers for the cause ; some, such as Hardan al-Tikriti were already Ba ' ath Party members, others, such as Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif, the deputy head of the military intelligence and Ibrahim Daud, the commander of the Republican Guard, were not members.

Before taking up residence in his parish he went abroad again, and in Rome he met Chevalier Bunsen, who afterwards dedicated to him part of his work, Hippolytus and his Age.

As noted above, the behavioral traits of gannets and boobies differ considerably, but the Sulidae as a whole are characterized by several behavioral synapomorphies: Before taking off, they will point the bill upwards ( gannets ) or forward ( boobies ).

Before taking up motor racing, Hill spent several years actively involved in rowing.

Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

Before the series aired, NBC tracked her down ( by this time, she was married to a lawyer in Connecticut and named Peyton Rutledge ) and secured her permission to use her name for the lead character.

Before Gleason's initial three-year contract with CBS expired, he was offered a much larger one by CBS and General Motors ' Buick division ( the carmaker having dropped their sponsorship of Milton Berle's Buick-Berle Show after two seasons on NBC ).

Before Van Helsing even premiered, Sommers and Ducsay began developing a spin-off TV series for NBC called Transylvania.

NBC preferred " Where No Man Has Gone Before " as a pilot.

Before his time at the national news networks, Brown was a Seattle broadcasting staple, spending more than 15 years at television stations there, first at the NBC affiliate and then the CBS affiliate.

Before its abrupt cancellation, he had a starring role in the NBC drama The Book of Daniel.

Before 1964, ABC programming came to Dayton by way of off-hours clearances on NBC affiliate WLWD ( now WDTN ).

Before the cancellation of the Goodson-Todman game show Snap Judgment on NBC in 1969, they changed their set in order to make it resemble the look of the CBS Password.

Before his career as a game show host, Mandel was best known for his role as rowdy ER intern Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the NBC medical drama St.

Before NBC officially decided to part ways with Major League Baseball ( for the second time in about 12 years ) on September 26, 2000, Fox's payment would've been $ 345 million while NBC would've paid $ 240 million.

Before 1990, NBC had carried Major League Baseball since 1947.

Before the advent of television, the station broadcast long-form radio ( both local and NBC network ) programs in addition to music.

At the top end of the scale, in 1966 Desilu Studios spent almost US $ 1 million on the two pilot episodes for the renowned science fiction series Star Trek – the first pilot " The Cage " ( which was rejected by NBC ) cost more than US $ 600, 000 and the set for the bridge of the Enterprise alone reportedly cost US $ 60, 000 ; the second pilot, " Where No Man Has Gone Before " cost around US $ 300, 000.

In July 1998, National Geographic Channel Asia was launched in partnership and distribution with STAR TV ( Before replacing NBC Asia Channel.

Before being elected to the Council Compton was best known for his career in journalism, working for NBC News out of Cairo and London from 1977 to 1984.

Before the deal was announced, O ' Brien initially had reservations about the move, as it would place comedian George Lopez's show, Lopez Tonight, one hour later to midnight, effectively doing to Lopez what NBC had wanted to do with O ' Brien.

Before the 2004 – 05 lockout, the NHL had reached two separate deals with NBC and ESPN.

Before landing the role of Cassie, Koffman played the short-term role of Lindsay on the NBC soap opera Another World in 1991.

Before WCKT signed on, NBC had been carried on WFTL-TV ( channel 23 ) in Fort Lauderdale ( later known as WGBS-TV after it had been acquired by Storer Broadcasting ) along with some DuMont programming.

Before striking it on the big screen, Leon amassed numerous small screen credits, notably in a 1989 episode of the NBC series Midnight Caller, in which he played an athlete who falls victim to crack cocaine.

Before then, ABC had been relegated to off-hours clearances on then-CBS affiliate WJXT and NBC affiliate WTLV.

Before this, WFAA-TV served as the NBC affiliate for the eastern half of the market.