Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siting the Boilerhouse at the V&A ( between 1982 and 1987 ) was a bold attempt to revamp the museum 's image as an old-fashioned and intimidating palace of culture while at the same time implying a continuity or purpose : one of the first Boilerhouse exhibitions was on the subject of ‘ taste ’ , a neat dovetailing of 19th century didactic aims for the museum with the concerns of 1980s ' retailing . |
| 2 | This approach , which dominated the abortion reform movements of Sixties ' North America , is rooted in liberal humanism which values science and rational thought . |
| 3 | The acid-sweet pastels of 1950s ' food photography come to mind . |
| 4 | LIBERALISATION has been one of the key concepts of eighties ' economics , a word which has acquired such power in Anglo-Saxon officialdom that there is virtually no argument about its virtues . |
| 5 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 6 | THESE Hartlepool lads throw everything into this two-track demo , and end up sounding like early Eighties ' pop combined with touches of Nineties ' hardcore . |
| 7 | There will always be an element of the old school that insists that proper cooking must be done using traditional methods , but increasingly , chefs , catering managers and kitchen staff in general are putting their trust in 1990s ' technology to enable them to carry out their work . |
| 8 | THIS CURIOUSLY wart-like plastic troll ( right ) , currently clawing its way from Seventies ' oblivion to Nineties cool-kitsch , has had a boost from Wrangler . |
| 9 | In fact this vision of pop is as fictional and irrelevant today as the indie notion of ‘ perfect pop ’ ( an airy idyll of sixties ' byrdsong ) , Today 's pop is soulful , concerned with banishing inhuman traces , yearning for a lost passion and integrity . |