Example sentences of "ahead [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way ahead for the disabled |
| 2 | Ahead for the first time , Widnes scored two tries in Daley 's absence , Offiah claiming a second , after an astute pass by Grima , then finding huge spaces in a disoriented defence to give Richard Eyres sight of the line . |
| 3 | After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ahead for the first time , McManus wrapped up a revenge win for last week 's 5-4 Nescafe Asian Open defeat with further runs of 94 and 75 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Up to a point , because now we 've got the the go ahead for the new chiller , which is ordered , erm that 's only getting rid of part of the problem . |
| 11 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
| 12 | G.M. Fairbairn ( 'H' , V6427 ) , Sgt. E.B. Inman ( 'J' , V6460 ) , and their crews being lost — a grim indicator of what lay ahead for the anti-shipping units . |
| 13 | As one seminar is brought to conclusion plans forge ahead for the next and 1992 is no exception . |
| 14 | ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It would seem the £100m needed to build the jail would be a ripe contender for the cuts and it wo n't go ahead for the next financial year at least . ’ |
| 16 | Speaking yesterday in Edinburgh at a press briefing Dr Graham Dalton remarked : ‘ We can see the way ahead for the next three years and the overall picture for Scottish farming is reasonably encouraging . |
| 17 | Plans are going ahead for the proposed course — arrival on the Friday 16th May — start 17th May and end 23rd May — departure Saturday 24th May . |
| 18 | Its end , that is , the singular future that lies ahead for the collapsing object . |
| 19 | Curtis , craning forward , left hand braced on the dash , right hand clutching his gun , was straining to see ahead through the swirling fog , with the aid of the car fog lights . |
| 20 | Because of the caves ' varying depths , 25 minutes decompression was required before removing the two front mounted cylinders , and pushing them ahead through the 16 inch high Cobble Inlet passage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Further problems began to loom ahead as the final date for payments from the £300 million fund ( 1 July 1953 ) drew near . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 25 | The axial spin of the more massive body M tends to carry the tide ahead of the orbital motion . |
| 26 | Oh , the dawn when shadows skeeter ahead of the sure fluid sunlight , back to their night . |
| 27 | Yesterday 's 9p drop to 370p took the shares to an 18-month low ahead of the promised interim announcement on the dispute between the tunnel developer and its contractors over the £800m of extra payments they are claiming . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And as the Saatchi shares peaked ahead of the 1987 stock market crash the seeds of its financial decline had already been sown . |
| 30 | 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 . |