The work is considered an important precursor to conceptual art.

But it had been the precursor to something very important.

Taking time to read to children is the most important precursor to a child's development of reading.

Samuel Beckett is sometimes seen as an important precursor and influence.

Sometimes that inner frustration is an important precursor for change.

It is an important precursor to many other materials and chemical compounds.

The contradanza is an important precursor of several later popular dances.

These studies formed an important precursor to his later ideas on technological forms.

The recording has been cited as an important precursor of rock and roll.

Today, he is perceived as an important precursor of the 20th-century Surrealist movement.