Example sentences of "ahead [prep] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This attractive young Woodbrook player , three down on the 13th , seemed to have a superb match against Eavan Higgins all wrapped up after jumping ahead for the first time on the 17th , but lost her ‘ thinking cap ’ completely down the last . |
| 2 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 3 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 4 | But on 69 minutes Apoel went ahead for the first time in the entire tie and it was to prove decisive , Christodoulous Pounas curling his corner into the far corner of the net . |
| 5 | Rory Underwood 's try put England ahead for the first time in the match with just seven minutes to go after a spell of relentless pressure on the home side . |
| 6 | This was a perfect frame of mind for chairing Northern Foods , a great supertanker of a business forging steadily ahead through the profitable waters of supermarket supply . |
| 7 | Further problems began to loom ahead as the final date for payments from the £300 million fund ( 1 July 1953 ) drew near . |
| 8 | Now , the RD 's electronics is where things get a bit tricky , and probably where Gibson were ahead of the average bassist of the time . |
| 9 | The Tyneside-based company plans to expand into South Durham and Teesside in a bid to win market share ahead of the promised upturn in the housing market . |
| 10 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 11 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 12 | Recent opinion polls show that , while Mr Mulroney remained one of Canada 's most unpopular leaders to date , his party had recovered ground and moved ahead of the New Democrats into second place behind the Liberals . |
| 13 | The Tony Castro-designed Juno IV was comfortably ahead of the other boats of her size and won on handicap by over a minute . |
| 14 | * The Canadian government is to phase out the production and import of all chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) no later than the end of 1995 — a year earlier than previously targeted and five years ahead of the current requirement of the Montreal Protocol . |
| 15 | Defence Ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) states ( Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ) met in Kuwait on Nov. 14 and 15 in the first of four ministerial meetings ahead of the planned summit in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 21 . |
| 16 | Khrushchev 's boast in the 1960s that socialism would bury capitalism sounds laughable now , as Poland and Hungary scramble ahead of the Soviet Union in economic reforms . |
| 17 | The length of the line to the right of this vertical thread showed the quantity of material ahead of the actual progress of the vehicle . |
| 18 | The Prince 's envoys had returned to Aber from the latest of the long-drawn conferences with the King 's representatives , two days ahead of the battered remnant from Parfois . |
| 19 | Despite the difficult property market , they authorised the acquisition of new Solicitors Complaints Bureau premises out of London , ahead of the final disposal of Portland House . |
| 20 | NEW car sales in February totalled 126,984 — 16.06 per cent ahead of the 109,414 figure for the same month last year , according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders ( SMMT ) . |
| 21 | The family was forced to flee ahead of the Russian advance in 1916 , and eventually settled in Vienna , where Erika learned her first card game , Preference , common in central Europe at the time . |
| 22 | With 164 out of 394 seats , the HDF , led by Josef Antall , was by far the largest single party , ahead of the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats ( SzDSz ) with 92 seats . |
| 23 | But the UK market is still a long way ahead of the worst performers in Datastream 's league table , Hong Kong and Switzerland . |
| 24 | The actual rate of inflation stays ahead of the expected rate by a constant margin which , for as long as the unemployment rate is held at U 1 , will never be closed . |
| 25 | His investigation of the plans was released ahead of the white paper on energy supplies in the wake of the controversy over British Coal plans to close 31 pits as a result of the dash for gas . |
| 26 | King Mswati III dissolved the Libandla ( Parliament ) on Oct. 9 , one month ahead of the scheduled end of its term , announcing that he would rule with " executive powers " with the help of the Cabinet , which would be converted into a council of ministers and would act as a caretaker government while a new constitution was drafted and elections were held . |
| 27 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 28 | Er , a fourth year of record profits , record er , sales , record margin , with the schools business thirty seven percent ahead of the previous year with our successful maths programme , aided and abetted by er , the business that produces the manipulatives to go with the maths programme . |
| 29 | to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area , or |
| 30 | to pass ahead of the foremost part of a stationary vehicle on the same side of the crossing as the approaching vehicle , the stationary vehicle having stopped to accord precedence to a foot passenger |