Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever mitigating justifications could be cited in favour of overt action on the campus , in much of the 1960s ' action , students were often reducing other students ' right to learn , were therefore abusing their freedoms and were , as such , forfeiting their own rights as students . |
| 2 | Apart from the odd wrangle over samples , the two opponents have enjoyed a fairly benign standoff , and thankfully avoided a revival of the late-Seventies ' punk vs disco debate . |
| 3 | Next door was what the children called ‘ The Beatle Room ’ , a room devoted entirely to psychedelic posters , pictures and other memorabilia of the Sixties ' pop stars . |
| 4 | FNFC , that star of the Seventies ' market crash started life as Birmingham Carriage and Wagon . |
| 5 | As a result of the 1950s ' return to : |
| 6 | In this paper I shall thus look systematically at this break with the aura of high modernist art in the 1920s ' avant-garde and in more recent decades . |
| 7 | Many firms are also highly geared , having borrowed to expand their businesses in the 1980s ' boom and now , with incomes falling , interest payments are almost impossible to meet . |
| 8 | This dire short-term market squeeze has at least temporarily put paid to the idea that the building society industry is making a graceful adaptation to the 1980s ' deregulation of the financial services market . |
| 9 | These are the people who missed out on the Eighties ' boom and who are now being hit hardest by the recession . |
| 10 | ‘ Anecdotal ’ became a dirty word among the 1950s ' avant-garde . |