Sentence examples for is a predecessor from inspiring English sources

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

But Holly Golightly in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is a predecessor of all the drag queens of the nineties.

Written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, the song is a predecessor of sorts to "Take This Job and Shove It".

The sale includes a rare 1835 French skeleton clock; a bronze, onyx and silver annular Swiss sailboat clock; and an important square-dial French mystery clock around 1900 that is a predecessor to the 1920s Cartier mystery clocks, so called because their works are ingeniously hidden.

What appeals to me is that it is a predecessor of the Natural History Museum in Kensington, and in the early days of its existence was the venue for the most famous debate about Darwinism, between Thomas Huxley – who became known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for the vehemence of his argument – and the Bishop of Oxford.

Nitrate is a predecessor to the development of the genotoxic N-nitroso compounds (NOC), which are known animal carcinogens (Ward et al. 2005).

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.

Weekend Update was a predecessor of the newspaper parody, not the reverse.