Sentence examples for be a predecessor from inspiring English sources

Another presumed bicycle ancestor, the vélocifère, or célérifère, of the 1790s was a fast horse-drawn coach that is not considered to be a predecessor of the bicycle.

The sultan has responded to the protests by promising to create 50,000 jobs and raising the possibility of widening the powers of a consultative council, which could be a predecessor of a parliament.

While there may be a predecessor among Neolithic (c. 5000 2000 bc) pottery forms, the bronze dou was popular principally during the middle and, especially, late Zhou dynasty (c. 900 256/255 bc).

The design of the trousers from Yanghai with straight-fitting legs and a wide crotch-piece seems to be a predecessor of modern riding trousers.

Although it is unknown whether the above picture is of the "very first" listicle (perhaps that honor truly goes to an article published by Moses and written by God), the website TriviaHappy found this article published in 1906 by The New York World, which uses what appears to be a predecessor to Upworthy-style headlines as well.

There is a directed arc from node i to node j if the following four conditions hold: n i +1= n j, a i 2= a j 1, a i 3= a j 2, and a i 4= a j 3. (Node i is said to be a predecessor of node j).

William James's "Varieties of Religious Experience" is a predecessor.

He started a wireless company that was a predecessor to Verizon Wireless.

Munson, the former Yankees captain, was a predecessor of Piazza as a star catcher in New York.

This festival was a predecessor for all the jazz festivals to follow.

"It was a predecessor to the cell phone," Mr. Winter said.