Example sentences of "[adj] ' [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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1 | By the 1940s , government reports purported to consider the needs of the individual child , but as Ann Marie Wolpe has pointed out , prior assumptions were made as to the ‘ natural ’ interests of girls and boys and the destiny of girls as wives and mothers ; indeed , Miriam David has suggested that the 1940s ' curriculum was more differentiated than that of the 1930s . |
2 | Seventies ' youth was full of uncertainties and tenderness which was reflected in the trend for romance and nostalgia , fabrics that swayed and moved ; women wanted to dress up . |
3 | Back in the Rathausplatz a seven-piece jazz band of students dressed up in 1920s ' costume was keeping a large crowd entertained . |
4 | The tiled hearth of a 1930s ' surround was made in a single unit , and simply laid on the structural hearth . |
5 | The generation of this Hercynian ' folding' is discussed later in terms of late Carboniferous basin development . |