Example sentences of "that preceded it " in BNC.

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1 At the same time , though less abrasive , the book is only intermittently less sophisticated than those that preceded it .
2 What is more , the current XJS ragtop is structurally inferior to the cabriolet ( with Stag-like superstructure ) that preceded it .
3 But all that preceded it was very important too .
4 Holland 's interpretation was that in the second phase of training an association was formed between the illness produced by the injection and a CS-evoked representation of the food that preceded it .
5 Contrary to our knowledge today , this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it .
6 Sometimes converging swells will synchronize to produce a peak that is higher than any of the separate peaks that preceded it .
7 It is with this startling new perspective in mind that we view the eukaryotic cell 's rapid multiplication as it spread throughout the world 's oceans , finally replacing all the free-floating molecule strands that preceded it .
8 And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments .
9 Nothing that preceded it could have prepared its audience for a work of such comic brilliance , masterly characterization , and sheer breadth of conception .
10 Thus , in trying to change teaching , ironically it is likely that the recommendations arising from this kind of research , like much of the research on teacher effectiveness that preceded it , will help keep teaching the same by failing to look outside the parameters of the transmission model .
11 Foucault thus does not merely set up an alternative history , but contends that that alternative is part of a displacement that is in the process of replacing the history that preceded it .
12 It 's not quite as good as the bonking ladybirds that preceded it , but every single ad in the campaign so far has been a gem .
13 At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy .
14 Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together .
15 And whatever views the Exchequer Chamber may have had about their decision , succeeding generations have regarded it as the starting-point of a liability wider than any that preceded it .
16 It will inevitably be a political process but it will be a more informed political judgement , the reformers claim , than the pure bargaining process that preceded it .
17 The exhibition was undoubtedly a great success , and it put Cubism on the map more than any other exhibition that preceded it .
18 They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers .
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