Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] ' [noun] " 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 | The next Lloyd Webber venture is a musical re-working of the Fifties ' Billy Wilder screen classic Sunset Boulevard starring American actress and singer Patti LuPone . |
| 6 | As a result of the 1950s ' return to : |
| 7 | Indeed , despite the Sixties ' experiments with alternative life-styles , the despised suburban style looks like seeing the century through , for all its drawbacks of loneliness , boredom and exasperation , which made the man in the New Yorker cartoon say plaintively at the cocktail party : ‘ I want to talk about something else besides kids and illness ! ’ |
| 8 | THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED DIARY OF A 70S ' TEENAGER |
| 9 | Out of all possible motions of the six atoms , there are therefore two of a 1 ' symmetry . |
| 10 | The tiled hearth of a 1930s ' surround was made in a single unit , and simply laid on the structural hearth . |
| 11 | Just as her childhood amusements could have originated from the pages of a 1930s ' children 's book , so Diana 's upbringing reflected the values of a bygone age . |
| 12 | Like a sixties ' hippie , Preston thought irreverently , halfway to getting stoned . |
| 13 | The rise in unemployment and the fall in output at the start of the decade could be seen as the low point of a cycle which started with the 1930s ' innovations in chemical industries and light engineering and generated the new consumer durable industries that fuelled the long post-Second-World-War boom . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His 52.3s win in the under-17s ' 400m earned him the award for the top track athlete in the Northern Division One West match . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These are the people who missed out on the Eighties ' boom and who are now being hit hardest by the recession . |
| 20 | The only IR bands without Raman counterparts should be due to a 2 ' modes . |
| 21 | ‘ Anecdotal ’ became a dirty word among the 1950s ' avant-garde . |