Sentence examples for and the forerunner of from inspiring English sources
It is not only the most enduring reality series on television -- and the forerunner of the newer shows -- but also more connected to viewers' lives.
The establishment of the University of Melbourne (1853), the Melbourne Public Library (1856), and the forerunner of the National Gallery of Victoria (1861) were manifestations of "Marvellous Melbourne's" confidence.
His specialty was the English Romantics, then just emerging from a long period of disfavor imposed by the New Criticism, the big theory of its day and the forerunner of post-structuralism, almost as rigid in its linguistic fixation.
Two well-known polling organizations at the time differed, with Literary Digest forecasting a victory by Alf Landon and the forerunner of the Gallup Poll predicting re-election for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mercedes-Benz showed how precise and traffic-stopping a small car could be with its jewel-like Concept Style Coupe, unveiled in Beijing in 2011 and the forerunner of a model expected to make its way to the United States around 2014.
The brick, first produced in a sun-dried form at least 6,000 years ago and the forerunner of a wide range of structural clay products used today, is a small building unit in the form of a rectangular block, formed from clay or shale or mixtures and burned (fired) in a kiln, or oven, to produce strength, hardness, and heat resistance.
This growing array of valves and pipes was organized into circuits and displayed on the "gas table"—the forerunner of the modern switchboard.
The next year he won his first all-around championship (an event that included 10 running, jumping, and weight-throwing events and was the forerunner of the decathlon), and he won all-around championships again in 1907 and 1909.
First flown in 1977 and introduced in the mid-1980s, the Su-27 set numerous world records for altitude and takeoff speed and became the forerunner of an entire family of aircraft during the next two decades.
The seal (Swedish sigill), used extensively in the Middle Ages, was instrumental in spreading heraldry to churches, local governments, and other institutions, and was the forerunner of the coat of arms in medieval Sweden.
Gripping and horrifying, the perfect mix of horror and Gothic, the forerunner of the psychological ghost stories that were to come into vogue.
