The minor final provides the curtain-raiser to the senior final.
Today is only a curtain-raiser for that.
This was a curtain-raiser for those who say we are not satellites.
This debate should be seen simply as a curtain-raiser to what should be a serious ongoing debate about the future nature of our constitutional arrangements.
This is an important debate although, in a sense, it is a curtain-raiser.
It would be a curtain-raiser to the defence debate, which would then come at the point when interest is tending to lapse.
I realise that some of those issues are beyond the scope of the present debate, but this is a curtain-raiser to what is to follow.
That was not a very propitious curtain-raiser for a possible public auction of that company.
