Example sentences of "[noun pl] ahead of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More generally , therefore , an employee 's initial idea may be several steps ahead of the present state-of-the-art and yet be too far removed from practical and profitable application to be of immediate benefit . |
| 2 | For a membership fee of £1.50 you will * receive priority booking privileges ahead of the general public * be able to take part in various social events organised by the Club * be able to join our volunteers who support the theatre in various publicity activities * gain free membership of The Stage Door Club |
| 3 | Conflict between nationalist parties ahead of the Georgian Supreme Soviet elections due on Oct. 28 , centring on plans to pre-empt those elections with an independent poll on Sept. 30 for a rival National Congress , erupted into violence on Sept. 18-19 . |
| 4 | The project remains eight months ahead of the committed 72-month programme . |
| 5 | 1993 has started well with deliveries ahead of the same period last year and ahead of budget . |
| 6 | Observers speculated that it offered Gorbachev 's conservative opponents probably their last chance to influence policy as a credible force in the central committee : in recent weeks a grassroots party revolt had toppled the conservative leaderships in several regions and cities , including Tyumen in West Siberia , Chernigov in the Ukraine , and Volgograd in southern European Russia , while conservatives were facing a rout in the forthcoming local soviet ( council ) elections ( in which party leaders had been encouraged to stand ) and in elections to party posts ahead of the 28th CPSU congress . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | * 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 . |
| 9 | Bank debts were paid back and replaced with equity in a spate of fund-raising that put French firms ahead of the British as equity issuers ( see chart 23 ) . |
| 10 | However , one share dealer commented that with many institutional investors reluctant to open aggressive new positions ahead of the new year , losses were expected to be contained . |
| 11 | The remarkable correlation remained a mystery , because the hedgerow thirty yards ahead of the two horsemen exploded with musket-fire and the Lieutenant 's horse collapsed , shot in the chest . |
| 12 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 13 | Poor Crossley became the laughing stock of a 19,326 crowd when Vinnie Jones overhit a through ball , leaving the Forest No 1 with the seemingly easy task of collecting it yards ahead of the advancing Clarke . |
| 14 | Sharpe and Harper trotted northwards , staying a few hundred yards ahead of the advancing French . |
| 15 | He really marched in and he pulled 20 lengths ahead of the other two just walking . |
| 16 | Over 12 seconds ahead of the next competitor , Murray broke the opposition with a break at 1,000m and not one of her rivals dared to follow . |
| 17 | That puts him 11 points ahead of Jacques Delors ( a possible Socialist candidate ) , 16 points ahead of Mr Chirac , and 26 points ahead of the other main conservative hopeful , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 18 | Forest loom in the FA Cup in the New Year , and if United , who had their lowest League crowd of the season on Saturday and are now only six points ahead of the bottom club City , still can not see the wood for the trees , somebody will be in for the chop . |
| 19 | So , there were no leaks or speculative articles about the paper 's contents and publication was deliberately timed so that it arrived on news desks ahead of the finalised Cadbury Report . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This system is streets ahead of the slap-happy way tests are carried out in the UK , where the whole system of hip dysplasia testing is open to abuse . |
| 23 | YET in the ratings they are streets ahead of the new teeny heroines . |
| 24 | The bottom line has the Legacy streets ahead of the old GL . |
| 25 | The World Cup series slalom at Holme Pierrepont on May 30th–31st will be the most important British slalom for some years and will draw a very high class field of paddlers ahead of the Olympic Games . |
| 26 | Only forty miles ahead of the previous sighting lay the beginnings of the great Pennine range , the backbone of England . |
| 27 | In fact , Labour 's Maggie Cosin came second , with 23.7 per cent of the vote , 343 votes ahead of the Liberal Democrats . |