forerunner

Preposition: of

• today: This was the forerunner of today 's Royal Opera House.
• movement: The purity movement, as Greta Jones has pointed out, was the forerunner of the social hygiene movement.
• series: We hope that these events are only the forerunners of a series of contests, thoughtfully provided to relieve the monotony of our sojourn.
• day: Cella's clearing was the forerunner of the present day Chilworth Estate.
• system: The tax system the Romans introduced was the forerunner of the tax system we know today.
• music: The forerunner of gospel music, the spiritual was an 18th- and 19th-century hymn joined to the old African pentatonic ( five-note ) scale.

Converse of object

• become: Quickly becoming a forerunner on the Canadian comedy scene.
• have: Here you had the forerunner of the Diesel Multiple Unit that was to prove so effective in later years.
• consider: Advent 3 is " John the Baptist Day " when we consider the Forerunner to the long-expected Messiah.
• prove: If it is given planning consent, the Cornish Food Hall could prove the forerunner of similar projects all over the country.
• find: The main purpose is finding the forerunners of the substorm disturbances and a possible prediction of these disturbances.
• see: Here we see the forerunner of our communion service in 1 Corinthians 10:16.

Adjective modifier

• direct: Ilyenkov thought him to be the direct forerunner of Marxism.
• early: Since then ( in an early forerunner of the East Coast Vs.
• great: It was, however, not a ridge climb but a great forerunner of the Slab and Wall Period.
• immediate: The immediate forerunner of today's transistor portable was the Personal Portable of the late 1940's and early 1950's.
• clear: Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral is a clear forerunner of Bill's character.
• obvious: Fayol, however, was an obvious forerunner for those strategy theorists who take a prescriptive view of the strategy process.

Modifies a noun

body: His Prolog and Introduction concern the prehistory and the forerunner body, which was the Press Council established in 1953.

Noun used with modifier

F: Dev: 1989-1990 PR3 MG- F forerunner The third Phoenix prototype, built by ADC.