Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] ahead " in BNC.
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1 | But it is Damon , fourth from the top , who has vaulted ahead of the others , thanks to the cutting-edge characters he developed for Keenan 's show : an angry circus clown , a flamboyant film reviewer , and , riskiest of all , Handiman , ah , uh , differently abled super-hero . |
2 | She wants to go ahead but she 's afraid she ca n't manage . |
3 | He wants to go ahead with it . |
4 | He wants to go ahead . |
5 | The secretary-general of Génération Ecologie , François Donzel , has resigned ahead of the party 's first congress planned for November . |
6 | The eye has to jump ahead to the source marker , or register it peripherally , and link it correctly to the preceding text . |
7 | Lucas has steamed ahead with its investment programme and continues to prepare for a running start to recovery . |
8 | Midland has tried hard to break the ties , and with its First Direct branchless banking service it has moved ahead of the market , but it needed time and resources and luck . |
9 | Meanwhile , the rest of Europe has moved ahead of the UK in other innovations in the urban environment . |
10 | Well erm it 's a combination of both those factors er as I 've mentioned at the outset the development programme has moved ahead a little more slowly than we would wish , the main reasons for this were associated firstly with the delay in selecting equipment er and that took longer than our contractor ha had imagined . |
11 | If our political economy remains backward , our intellectual economy has leaped ahead . |
12 | It 's an area in which Europe has forged ahead and which , against all the odds , is actively supported by our very own government . |
13 | It means the menswear chain has acted ahead of several other retailers , including major supermarkets like Tesco , which were looking into similar schemes . |
14 | On both sides of the Atlantic , boardroom pay has raced ahead , offering an inflationary example to workers being lectured about the need for restraint . |
15 | It took the San Francisco peace Treaty of 1951 to place the official seal of international forgiveness on Japan 's decade of distemper ; after which , and ever since , Japan has raced ahead without once looking back , achieving all she had sought by war and conquest without the firing of a single shot or shell . |
16 | MIDDLESBROUGH stockbroker Wise Speke has pulled ahead in this year 's Share Race . |
17 | God has gone ahead of us to provide , in the suffering and death of his Son , all the special grace we may individually need to cope with evil and the abuse of love . |
18 | A number of large projects were discussed , but only one of the Soviet-Japanese projects has gone ahead — the open cast Neryungri coal mine . |
19 | Despite the fact that the museums in the former USSR were unable to meet their share of the costs after August 1991 , the exhibition has gone ahead with the support of the Kunsthaus in Zurich , in particular its director Felix Baumann , and with most of the financial risk underwritten by George Ortiz himself . |
20 | Now that MIPS Technologies Inc is in its back pocket , Silicon Graphics Inc has gone ahead and acted on its promise to service MIPS ' OEM business which accounted for the bulk of its revenues . |
21 | One scheme which dates from before privatisation but which has gone ahead , is at Tate & Lyle 's sugar refinery in Greenwich . |
22 | Suffice it to say Chairman , in the intervening time the project has gone ahead with considerable erm , er , local support , both in terms of finance , but I think also in terms of the er , the effort that er , particular individuals in the area have put in to make this project happen . |
23 | In many ways literature has run ahead of history . |
24 | It needs to think ahead on a systematic basis . |
25 | The Guardian has edged ahead of both of its major rivals with a smaller sales fall to 409,660 from 424,124 . |
26 | But the Newcastle-based computer group Sage has surged ahead by 20p to 454p after a 32% annual profits increase . |
27 | The company says that as well as launching an Am486 using Intel microcode , it still plans to go ahead with its clean version , which is due to be available in June , and production will be increased during the second half . |
28 | He plans to go ahead with his wedding , which was postponed last Wednesday , on his return to Sarajevo . |
29 | The Prime Minister has postponed a Commons debate on the Maastricht treaty , but says he still plans to forge ahead with a bill to ratify it . |
30 | Yet Lang intends to go ahead with radical council reforms which local government does not want . |