Example sentences of "a [adj] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 2 | But while ‘ Deliverance ’ was a 70 's nightmare , exposing the soft-underbelly of the male ego and leaving the survivors weeping in their soup , ‘ City Slickers ’ is a product of the new-man 90's , where the soft underbelly is a source of pride . |
| 3 | ‘ Pretty things , ’ wrote Sawyer and Darton of illustrated books in general , ‘ pleasant to fondle , more ready to display to a bibliophile those tiny points of an exquisite technique over which it is legitimate to gloat … the spot of ink adjusted on a Corinthian 's cheek to a thousandth of an inch , or a black line so thin and firm that you can almost see the metal caressing it on to the honest untimbered white paper . ’ |
| 4 | Much of the credit for the high standard of this performance has to be attributed to the forceful singing of Westdeutscher Rundfunk Choir , a pro-Cordes 's highest notes betray an occasional sense of strain . |
| 5 | This method assumes that a multinational 's subsidiaries , incorporated in different countries , are operating at arm's-length from their parent , paying market prices for the goods and services each imports from elsewhere in the group . |
| 6 | A multinational 's operations in a country are rarely stand-alone ; product parts , management skills , software and research ideas are often imported from the parent . |
| 7 | Vibrations of a 2 ' and a 1 " symmetry are inactive in both IR and Raman spectra . |
| 8 | The only IR bands without Raman counterparts should be due to a 2 ' modes . |
| 9 | Some authors order the symmetry species a 1 ' , a 2 ' , e' , a 1 ' , a 2 " , e " , regarding the '/ " distinction as most important . |
| 10 | Others treat the symmetry with respect to the 3-fold axis as more important , ordering the species as a 1 ' , a 1 " , a 2 ' , a 2 " , e' , e " . |
| 11 | The role of the non-executive : Of course , not all of a non-executive 's time is spent looking outwards at the wider world . |
| 12 | It was a claustrophobic 's nightmare . |
| 13 | A typical 's week 's testing , involving five half-day tests and five half-day analysis sessions , can pinpoint up to 250 usability problems . |
| 14 | THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED DIARY OF A 70S ' TEENAGER |
| 15 | I was lucky I went straight into a trusty 's job , and I could work at weekends as well , and I earned good money : £2.63 a week . |
| 16 | You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine 's milking tackle perched on your bonce . |
| 17 | I have a 1920 's edition of Wells , published by Collins , which tags him — The most widely read author in the world ’ . |
| 18 | States are free to waive , renounce , or dispose of a national 's rights or interests by treaty unless restricted by national law . |
| 19 | It even had a 1940 's bakelite telephone which seemed to work , but the typewriter was state of the art and so , probably , was the young lady behind it . |
| 20 | Erm , that had a B-52 's ‘ Rock Lobster ’ vibe to it . |
| 21 | The Jimmy Stewart of American comedy , with his four piece suit and his gentlemanly ways , he 's a 40 's guy in a 90 's world . |
| 22 | the subordinate 's ability and experience must be borne in mind when allocating tasks and responsibilities , since it is highly damaging to allocate tasks beyond a subordinate 's capabilities ; and |
| 23 | After a split-second 's hesitation Nathan sighed . |
| 24 | • Wickedly tempting cakes — a chocaholic 's dream ! |
| 25 | The second is nothing but a single-engined airliner with a 737 's rate-of-climb and rate-of-descent capabilities , able to mix with Dash 8s or ATRs along the airways . |
| 26 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 27 | Visitors to the National Fishing Heritage Centre sign on as a crew member of a 1950 's steam trawler and journey to the Arctic fishing grounds . |
| 28 | It was a very different beauty from that of a 1930 's Alden ketch or a clipper-bowed Herreshof schooner so admired by the traditionalists . |
| 29 | I do n't live as he does with my ‘ nan ’ in a 1930 's council flat in Tottenham . |
| 30 | Reproduction of a 1930 's advertisement for the Air-o-bian controllable Box kite . |