Sentence examples for become the forerunner from inspiring English sources

Rather than letting a cynical game die in obscurity, it's now poised to become the forerunner of the 21st century equivalent of video nasties.

According to scientists at Edinburgh University's Roslin Institute – the research institute where Dolly the Sheep was created and which launched Dogslife four years ago – the project could become the forerunner of many similar schemes.

This would become the forerunner of passenger air travel in our age, which is almost exclusively by jet propulsion.

If a cell splits into two, one descendant cell can become the forerunner of the left and the other of the right side of the body.

Many different approaches to integrating lasers on silicon are being pursued and it's not yet clear which technique will become the forerunner".

The elder Sieroty was the son of Adolph Sieroty, who came to Los Angeles in the 1890s and started what would become the forerunners of Eastern Columbia.

After WWII he helped set up weekly professional tournament which became the forerunner of today's gilded professional tour.

When Glover's widow married Henry Dunster, president of Harvard College, Day's press became the forerunner of Harvard University Press.

So they turned to an informal new kind of writing that became the forerunner of the phonetic alphabet.

With his colleagues he developed a rapid method of DNA sequencing – a way to "read" DNA – which became the forerunner for the work on mapping the human genome.

Alex Moulton, a British automotive engineer who created a small-wheeled bicycle that fired a trend in the 1960s and became the forerunner of the collapsible, portable bikes of today, died on Dec. 9 in Bath, England.