Example sentences of "[adj] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems . |
| 32 | The late 1970s ' level of manufacturing investment stood as a record until 1987 . |
| 33 | The report concluded that the world might have " entered a period in which the average growth rates for output and trade over the business cycle ( would ) be higher than they ( had ) been since the outset of economic difficulties in the late 1960s and early 1970s ' . |
| 34 | The card operated hotel locking system was introduced in the late 1970s ' with the focus on replacing the traditional metal key for guest room doors with a more easily recodable system . |
| 35 | In recent years IBM has introduced four-year ' term contracts ' for some graduate entrants , like a commission in the service , to give fine training and work experience to people who will expect to move on at the end . |
| 36 | ‘ You talk of the eight twelves ' energy bolts as if they were alive , ’ remarked Jinkwa . |
| 37 | The small , dimly lit plastic tent was crammed with survivors from the eight twelves ' second attack : soldiers who had been pulled from the wreckage of their half blasted tanks with feet missing or shells split . |
| 38 | It is doubtful whether even one of the eight twelves ' living bullets could have cut through the atmosphere created by the Doctor 's words . |
| 39 | ‘ Slade Alive ’ , what a brilliant album ! ’ gleams Gordon as he digs in early-'70s ' vinyl from behind a mound of Elvis ashtrays . |
| 40 | ‘ Slade Alive ’ , what a brilliant album ! ’ gleams Gordon as he digs in early-'70s ' vinyl from behind a mound of Elvis ashtrays . |
| 41 | The early expression is modified and becomes restricted to r2 and r4 and their migrating crest populations which is seen in a lateral view of a 9.0d.p.c. embryo ( i ' ) . |
| 42 | ‘ That may be , but I ' ll decide when I leave ! ’ |
| 43 | So , we would say : ‘ I will meet you in drafouš ' ’ which , at that time , was the lower part of Wenceslas Square . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | These are the people who missed out on the Eighties ' boom and who are now being hit hardest by the recession . |
| 46 | Now that we 're into the Nineties , the agencies have changed tack , and such Eighties ' characteristics as greed , selfishness and sad Paisley ties have become passé . |
| 47 | Old-style Eighties ' computers , sold with high margin and short lifespan , have long ago been cost-depreciated to zero by corporations . |
| 48 | The ‘ Sean Astin digs up a caveman and he fits right in in the Valley ’ plot does n't add to the suburban dumbnation routines but rather reworks the Eighties ' ‘ innocents abroad in America ’ genre ( eg anything from Starman to Crocodile Dundee ) . |
| 49 | Segal describes the ‘ powerful and effective ’ voices of black feminism , and argues that ‘ paying more attention to the needs of Black women on a practical and descriptive level , constantly being vigilant about old assumptions that ‘ we ’ women are white , has become an important aspect of feminism in the eighties ' . |
| 50 | Catharsis there 's nothing like reflecting in tranquillity to help heal those wounds , and most of them were pretty bruised by the nineteen eighties ' experiences of the recent crop . |
| 51 | THESE Hartlepool lads throw everything into this two-track demo , and end up sounding like early Eighties ' pop combined with touches of Nineties ' hardcore . |
| 52 | Today 's society , the adverts pointed out , is too knowing , too soiled , and too corrupt — as if Fifties ' America was some kind of zenith in Western civilisation . |
| 53 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 54 | A major flaw of the liberal discourse of fifties ' social realism is the attempt to explain away racism by locating prejudice in individuals , often already pathologised others , such as working-class youth or sexually frustrated women . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | She had the kind of wide , alluring brown eyes the Fifties ' authors would have described as ‘ big enough to drown a man ’ . |
| 57 | It showed a bright-faced man running on a beach with two girls , both of whom were wearing fifties ' bikinis . |
| 58 | Fifties ' pride possessed her . |
| 59 | Ever since the first distant sounds of music and odd snatches of alien speech began interrupting the 1920s ' world of Morse , better ( and louder ) reproduction of audio has been at the forefront of development priorities for engineers . |
| 60 | Back in the Rathausplatz a seven-piece jazz band of students dressed up in 1920s ' costume was keeping a large crowd entertained . |