Sentence examples for it is a precursor to from inspiring English sources

Inasmuch as the certificate of division permitted the Supreme Court some measure of control over its docket, it is a precursor to modern certiorari jurisdiction.

Although toxicological data suggest that pure methane is not by itself health damaging (excluding its role as an asphyxiant and an explosive), it is a precursor to global tropospheric ozone (Smith et al. 2009).

But I don't think it is a precursor to the drug companies cutting prices.

Reorganisation, however, is useful only if it is a precursor to action.

"It is a precursor to doing anything else," said John B. Stephenson, the GAO's director of natural resources and environmental issues, who testified yesterday before a Senate committee.

It is a precursor to a much larger effort planned for 2016 to elect a majority in Congress who will support reform of campaign funding.

"It's a precursor to something that's coming that's really scary," he said.

It's a precursor to politics, a way of controlling people.

"It's a precursor to the full flowering of Herrmann's style in film," Mr. Sheffer said.

It was a precursor to us receiving a significant donation from a Christmas appeal.

It's a precursor to another stroke, the butterfly, which he thinks he'll learn next.