Sentence examples for was a precursor to from inspiring English sources

Verloc was a precursor to the anti-hero of the modern novel.

'What's that?' He told me that it was a precursor to artemisinin, an effective anti-malarial.

In this respect he was a precursor to JD Salinger and Thomas Pynchon.

Redemption of the preference shares was a precursor to the winding up of MGR Capital.

If Liberty Street was a manufacturing mecca, Cortlandt Street was a precursor to Herald Square.

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

This was a precursor to a front-page assault by Dunleavy on France as part of the "axis of weasel".

It was a precursor to today's hedge funds; it borrowed heavily to buy controlling stakes in groups of corporations.

Would it be unfair to say that "The Winter's Tale" was a precursor to the contemporary romance novel?

Creevy's murder was a precursor to the killing and dismemberment Griffiths would later carry out in the same building.

The Annapolis Convention, held in 1786, was a precursor to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.