Example sentences of "ahead of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 2 | Laing fills the void left by Marty Strutt 's return to Bangor while Robson is given his chance ahead of a bevy of scrum-halves that are on the Shane Park books . |
| 3 | A shepherd , a gaucho , rode past us , ahead of a sea of sheep . |
| 4 | The aid package is being rushed out ahead of a relief lorry convoy leaving Scotland on Monday . |
| 5 | But comprehensive data collection ran ahead of a capacity for meaningful analysis , and prescriptive content was disappointing . |
| 6 | I never — ’ She was used I supposed to lodgings arranged by an advance man , coming ahead of a company and making the arrangements for them . |
| 7 | The men fell back , or fell down in some cases , and Benny leapt off the edge of the dock just ahead of a swarm of angrily buzzing bullets . |
| 8 | Page 24 Shares probe : The Stock Exchange is investigating Friday 's steep rise in the share price of Pearl Group , the life insurer , ahead of a £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident . |
| 9 | For example , coral islands such as the Maldives may keep ahead of a rise of 50-70m a century . |
| 10 | According to Elm 's sales director , Jim Cooper , the company is positioning itself ahead of a tightening of US food storage laws which is due to take place in the next 18 months . |
| 11 | After all , there has been little in the real world to justify optimism : economic activity has continued to fall — down 2.5% in 1991 and close to 0.8% in 1992 — unemployment is heading for the 3 million mark , business failures in 1992 ran 31% ahead of a year earlier . |
| 12 | That is to say that they were demand led , except perhaps in their respective " manias " when a number must be viewed as having been undertaken ahead of a demand . |
| 13 | A short-working Promenade car reverses ahead of a car on the North Station service . |
| 14 | Again , I guess we were ahead of a lot of other groups because our music was really fast and chop-orientated , without it being fusion-like . |
| 15 | These include restrictions on a firm dealing ahead of a research publication , dealing with orders fairly and in due turn , prompt execution , best execution ( which in the case of exchange-traded futures is normally ensured by the exchange 's best price rule ) , allocation of transactions , aggregation and allocation of orders and a prohibition against churning . |
| 16 | First is the drastic effects for the borrower who fails to save up ahead of a re-adjustment when rates rise three or four times in a year . |
| 17 | This statement comes ahead of a report soon to be issued , covering the Community 's financial relations with 26 countries , pursuant to the Second Banking Directive . |
| 18 | The declaration coincided with the visit of President Alfredo Cristiani to the United States and came ahead of a vote in the US Congress on a proposal to cut military aid to El Salvador by half . |
| 19 | He went on around the block , again and again , until a space opened up in a barely-lit alley and he slipped the car in ahead of a Mercedes driver who , to judge from how he leaned on the horn , was well along the way to a heart condition . |
| 20 | Goldsmith rumours were helped along by talk Anheuser-Busch , the US brewing giant , had acquired Elders ' 23.7 per cent stake ahead of a bid . |
| 21 | Rumours that the Willis stake was about to change hands ahead of a bid have fuelled the progress . |
| 22 | It performed quite well in my network benchmarks , nosing ahead of the RSC by around 10 per cent . |
| 23 | Extensive work over the winter has resulted in a marked increase in power — so much so that Fisher now feels the Toyota heads the power league ahead of the Subarus driven by himself and Kenny McKinstry . |
| 24 | It finished only just ahead of the Alliance poll of 26 per cent ( which produced for them only seventeen Liberal and six SDP seats ) . |
| 25 | Commercial people lagged behind , but they were ahead of the textile workers , the first working-class group to show strong limitation . |
| 26 | And Laughton is keen to add 30-year-old Davies to his squad ahead of the January 11 Silk Cut Challenge Cup deadline . |
| 27 | But Zachaire was bitten by the gold bug and wandered around Europe , one jump ahead of the plague , seeking to learn from the motley swarm of alchemists to be found in the abbeys and cities . |
| 28 | He quickly levelled off at 1500ft and one of the B-52s passed ahead of the helicopter and the other behind . |
| 29 | And yet it is never very far ahead , indeed sometimes seems not to be ahead of the pursuer at all . |
| 30 | The success of population targeting depends on access to accurate up-to-date information , but in fact the increasing attention being given to sub-national , and particularly local , populations is running far ahead of the availability of data suitable for monitoring trends at these scales . |