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Перевод: forerunner

[существительное]
предшественник ; предтеча ; предвестник

Тезаурус:

1. But the new vans specially built to convey this traffic were 27ft long and capable of holding two at a time, the forerunner of the car flats of the 1970s and '80s.
2. From 1937 Imperial Airways, the forerunner of BOAC, used flying boats on all its African services.
3. This is a hybrid of EC currencies increasingly traded on international capital markets and seen as a forerunner of a single European currency.
4. Euparkeria, with more pronounced legs balanced by a long tail, was probably a more direct forerunner of dinosaurs than Ornithosuchus , but it was smaller and more agile.
5. Chlorothiazide is the forerunner of a large class of similar drugs, which have become known as the thiazide diuretics.
6. Morgan's forerunner and whose junior partner was Pierpont.
7. In many respects it is an excellent sequel to Flow injection analysis by the same authors and, like its forerunner, it covers an impressive range of applications supported by a generous number of drawings and diagrams.
8. After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service, the forerunner of Christian Aid.
9. In London it was found that deaf people in East and South London had difficulty in getting to St. Saviour's Church, so in the same year, 1873, two new branches were opened - one at St. Barnabas Church, Deptford (forerunner of Lewisham Deaf Club) and at West Ham.
10. Although it looked outwardly like a Deltic, it was actually the forerunner of class 50.
11. What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848, the forerunner of modern public health legislation.
12. He disliked the Church Assembly (which was the forerunner of the General Synod) and made only one speech there while he was Bishop of Durham, against the idea of recruiting people to come and be priests.
13. He subsequently became chairman of the panel which oversaw chemical aspects of the atomic programme and, after the war, chairman of the Chemical Research Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research - the forerunner of today's Science and Engineering Research Council.