The phrase "as a forerunner for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something serves as a precursor or an early example of something that follows.
Example: "The research conducted in the 1990s acted as a forerunner for the advancements we see in technology today."
Alternatives: "as a precursor to" or "as a precursor for".
The head coach of the United States team, Bill Tavares, strongly contested Davidson's participation as a forerunner for the women's races, upset that it would be a distraction for Racine.
Trump has been unstinting in his praise for Farage, seeing Brexit as a forerunner for his own mould-breaking victory, and even recommended that the former Ukip leader should take over as UK ambassador to Washington.
Had the museum produced a catalog or included the work of younger artists for whom Mr. Shields's collage aesthetic might be regarded as a forerunner — for example, Polly Apfelbaum, Jessica Stockholder, Jim Lambie, Jim Isermann, Virgil Marti and Dinh Q. Le — the exhibition might have felt more pertinent.
June 20 , 1723Logierait, Scotland February 22, 1816 St. Andrews, Scotland Adam Ferguson, (born June 20 , 1723 Logierait, Perthshire, Scot. died Feb. 22, 1816, St. Andrews, Fife) historian and philosopher of the Scottish "common sense" school of philosophy who is remembered as a forerunner of modern sociology for his emphasis on social interactions.
The formula was clearly a forerunner for such hedonistic successors as Las Vegas.
Though the code did not effect the desired change in its beginnings, it has been a focus of considerable international discussion and a forerunner for subsequent international codes, such as the WHO 2010 code [ 12].
In correspondence with Charles Babbage, who was working on the ideas for a machine that is now recognised as a forerunner of the modern computer, Ada demonstrated her gift for mathematics and was described by him as "the enchantress of numbers".
The commercials are a forerunner for what Ms. Hirschhorn and Ms. Maroun describe as a major new campaign for Met Life, to come later in the year.
Brooks is a forerunner for a new generation of novelists for whom status updates and midget porn will be as unremarkable features of life as pavements and trees.
It's been remade for modern systems, and could be seen as a forerunner of Dennaton Games' Drive-inspired Hotline Miami--colorful and subversive alongside the gratuitous violence.
