adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deal goes through/ahead (= it happens as arranged )
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It’s 99% certain that the deal will go through.
be ahead/leading in the polls
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The good news is that we are ahead in the polls.
edged ahead (= been more successful than )
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The paper has edged ahead of its rivals.
go right ahead
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If you want to leave, go right ahead .
jumped ahead
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The movie suddenly jumped ahead to the future.
plan ahead/plan for the future
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Now that you’re pregnant you’ll have to plan ahead.
the road ahead (= in front of you )
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The road ahead was completely flooded.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
edge
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Newcastle edged ahead again in the 31st minute when defender Kevin Scott hooked home from close range.
forge
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The fear is that if one club does manage to forge ahead , it will be at the expense of the other.
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Openend funds have forged ahead to a total of 8, 667, according to Lipper Analytical Services Inc.
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As one seminar is brought to conclusion plans forge ahead for the next and 1992 is no exception.
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Already equipped with two take-home containers of food, I nevertheless forged ahead .
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Antorini recognises that the pressure to forge ahead with the necessary research is likely to be consumer-led by infertile couples.
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Instead of shelving the permits, as residential builders do, Rohr forged ahead with construction.
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But even without another huge bid, Hanson will forge ahead .
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Soon after the mid-October opening, he was forging ahead .
get
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The flattening of organizations means that all employees have to learn that old-fashioned promotion is not the only way of getting ahead .
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Take cheap shots and distort facts in order to get ahead ?
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However, the faster we can get ahead with the Development Project the better.
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We wish you to get ahead .
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They are materialistic and pushy, motivated by acquisition, competition, and getting ahead .
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No matter how hard we worked, we could never get ahead , and almost every day something else would go wrong.
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But we get ahead of ourselves.
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It promoted Polgar, leaving his colleagues a memorable lesson on how to get ahead .
go
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But in practice, if most countries want to go ahead with something, they may well ignore a lone dissenter.
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But then Philip went ahead and composed the music.
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Factory owners tried to stop govt. from going ahead &038; passing Acts but could not stop them seeing.
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When he agreed to go ahead he could not have been more generous.
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The decision to go ahead was made, by the book, Vaughan says.
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Half way up the hill, the column took a break while Calley and Meadlo went ahead with the mine detector.
lie
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Currently, attention is centred on the Irkutsk region's gas and oil resources, but many obstacles lie ahead .
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Although generally optimistic, Dan knew that more challenges lay ahead .
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These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead .
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Perhaps the best way to think of what lies ahead is to imagine that you are Columbus.
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Dark pines and yellow birches lay ahead , as the shoreline curved to meet me.
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It is my first view of the road that lies ahead .
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And what lies ahead in 1993?
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But there is much Clinton can do in the four years that lie ahead of him in his second term.
look
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The Stock Market, however, tends to look ahead about six months.
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Others are of the present; others still result from looking ahead .
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Look ahead five or so years to when Lastminute.com might be an established business.
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I think we have to look ahead .
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They take everything one step at a time, and refuse to look ahead .
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And he is the genuine article, an original who succeeds in looking ahead by looking way back.
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I looked ahead and tried to think what on earth I was going to do.
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Prospects for the weeks and months ahead look about as bleak.
move
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But his proposals for electoral reform, now moving ahead in fits and starts, contain no such provision.
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Despite immature theory and premature hype, researchers are moving ahead .
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Interests are much more likely to provide footholds for finding common ground and moving ahead .
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As we move ahead in the nineties and beyond, fishnet structures will become increasingly attractive.
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Travelling strongly for much of the way, Ballystate had just moved ahead when belting the final flight.
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Dallas wide receiver Michael Irvin says he wants to move ahead .
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When new staff were appointed development could move ahead again.
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The process could be one with some integrity, and management could assure a consensus before it moves ahead .
plan
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Order, order Always plan ahead to save time and unnecessary effort.
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Plan ahead and check everything you have planned.
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Fortunately, humans can plan ahead .
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Plan ahead: Make sure your refund is as small as possible.
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He knows how to handle situations and can plan ahead for things.
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For those willing to plan ahead however, this is nothing to lament.
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As with all questions affecting retirement, it is sensible if possible to plan ahead .
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Indeed, language is all about constructing unique sequences, and so is planning ahead for tomorrow.
press
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We took advice from other friends, including our bishop, James Roxburgh, who all encouraged us to press ahead .
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But so is its determination to press ahead irrespective of the results of practical tests of the system.
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The Environment Secretary, Michael Howard, is determined to press ahead with his bill.
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The election result has given the Conservatives five years in which to press ahead with the changes.
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And he denied Mr Major would lose all credibility by not pressing ahead with the treaty.
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We will press ahead with regular appraisal of teachers to encourage high standards and develop professional skills.
pull
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But she just couldn't take it when I started pulling ahead .
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She is busy watching the team pull ahead decisively.
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In the Brut Rose category, California is clearly pulling ahead .
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One new poll showed him pulling ahead of Sen.
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She is very specifically waiting for Oregon to pull ahead so that she can put in Karen.
push
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To achieve this, Quinlan is pushing ahead with a salad of deals, alliances and joint ventures.
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Leaders seize opportunities and push ahead .
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Push ahead with a cash or career plan.
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But for black dancers and choreographers, this was a time to push ahead .
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It emphasises the importance of trying to push ahead with the peace process that is now under way.
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Carter, however, insisted on pushing ahead .
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Anyone who tried to push ahead was berated by others.
stay
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Whatever she has or does, I try to stay ahead .
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Workers demanded higher pay to stay ahead of the inflation they expected.
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Stay ahead by deploying modest quantities of state-of-the-art aircraft, to dogfight over Arizona.
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They could be assured that their assets would stay ahead of inflation without risking a downturn.
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Nevertheless dinosaurs, remarkably, were frequently able to stay ahead in the game.
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Sure enough, it turned out they were from Minnesota, heading south to try and stay ahead of the cold.
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Now that they have learned how to win again they have to discover how to stay ahead of the pack.
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Businesses that want to stay ahead of the curve find trend research crucial.
step
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But his dark rimmed glasses and old fashioned looks belie a career spent one step ahead .
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I scrambled to learn more and managed to keep a half step ahead of humiliation.
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This is stepping ahead to the next consideration of the Lady of the Hearth as she who lights and tends the fire.
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It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
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The Vadinamians are usually step ahead .
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And thus begins a chase, with the Rat almost always being one step ahead .
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The opportunist, it turned out, was one step ahead of me.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ahead of your/its time
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Considered 33 years later, that ad was light-years ahead of its time .
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Hyde Park was a school way ahead of its time .
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It was about 70 years ahead of its time in its feminism and its poetics, so this is its time.
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Of course, Pollock's historicism can he misleading, particularly when it implies that art can be ahead of its time .
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Sketchpad was not only the first drawing program, but was arguably the best, absurdly ahead of its time .
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The idea was way ahead of its time .
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The musical was ahead of its time in several ways.
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Well ahead of its time , Adamson's first album remains his best.
ahead of/behind the curve
ahead of/behind time
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Anticipate the problems your client may have with self-monitoring ahead of time , and rehearse strategies to deal with those situations.
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Issues such as job assignments and reduced overtime are worked out ahead of time .
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It is hard to lay down rules about this ahead of time .
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It is important to check this list ahead of time so that you have everything ready to complete the demonstration.
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Linear regression, for example, requires all the data to be collected ahead of time and then processed all at once.
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Many of them had prepared notes ahead of time , and Drake took lots of notes.
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They were trying to learn to perform a role whose meaning and importance they could not grasp ahead of time .
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When you surf to a new Web page, you have no idea ahead of time whether it contains a Java program.
be leading the pack/be ahead of the pack
be/keep/stay one step ahead (of sb)
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It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
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Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
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The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
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We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
full speed/steam ahead
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In the meantime, the three cruise lines are moving full speed ahead with major expansion plans.
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And, full speed ahead ... the business sideline that's helping farmers rake in the cash.
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He talks full steam ahead for another five minutes.
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It's full steam ahead as investors get appetite for perks on a plate.
keep/stay etc a jump ahead (of sb)
light years ahead/better etc than sth
streets ahead (of sb/sth)
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And streets ahead ... Bonnie brings a touch of magic to a Broadway favourite.
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As pure driving machines, there is no real comparison - the Mercedes is streets ahead.
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Sorry times, indeed, for Coventry, whose Midland rivals are streets ahead in strength in depth.
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The Scandinavian countries are already streets ahead in this area.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Albert was staring straight ahead , pretending not to listen.
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David had his breakfast and thought about the day ahead .
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Devraux stared straight ahead , without looking at his son.
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He looked ahead down the road towards the village.
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He stuck his head out of the window but it was impossible to see ahead through the fog.
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I know there are some big problems ahead of us, but I'm sure we can overcome them.
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Let Tom walk ahead - he knows the way.
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Let Tom walk ahead of you - he knows this path very well.
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Milligan's home run puts the Dodgers ahead by one point.
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The doctor strode ahead to the end of the corridor, and waited there for the others to catch up.
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The government faces some difficult decisions in the months which lie ahead .
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The road ahead was clear.
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Unemployment in the region is expected to grow in the months ahead .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He walked very fast, commanding me to follow, and said there was a bridge up ahead we could cross.
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His test as a peacemaker is still ahead of him.
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If you decide not to go ahead , just return the Policy within 15 days.
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Second, the title suggests an assessment of multimedia spanning the decade, examining developments as far ahead as the year 2000.
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So stop moaning and plan ahead with some confidence.
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The police officer said that going ahead could mean prison.
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Then he singled in the sixth, the hit part of a rally that enabled Baltimore to go ahead , 4-2.
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We wish you to get ahead .