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 .
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