Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 2 | I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | This approach , which dominated the abortion reform movements of Sixties ' North America , is rooted in liberal humanism which values science and rational thought . |
| 7 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
| 8 | THESE Hartlepool lads throw everything into this two-track demo , and end up sounding like early Eighties ' pop combined with touches of Nineties ' hardcore . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 11 | The acid-sweet pastels of 1950s ' food photography come to mind . |
| 12 | That Mrs Gould was allowed to put her question in front of the cameras proved television was stocked with sixties ' radicals who were bent on sabotage . |
| 13 | THIS CURIOUSLY wart-like plastic troll ( right ) , currently clawing its way from Seventies ' oblivion to Nineties cool-kitsch , has had a boost from Wrangler . |
| 14 | ‘ Slade Alive ’ , what a brilliant album ! ’ gleams Gordon as he digs in early-'70s ' vinyl from behind a mound of Elvis ashtrays . |
| 15 | ‘ Slade Alive ’ , what a brilliant album ! ’ gleams Gordon as he digs in early-'70s ' vinyl from behind a mound of Elvis ashtrays . |
| 16 | So , we would say : ‘ I will meet you in drafouš ' ’ which , at that time , was the lower part of Wenceslas Square . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Back in the Rathausplatz a seven-piece jazz band of students dressed up in 1920s ' costume was keeping a large crowd entertained . |
| 19 | Potiphar with its slick routines from six girls in 1920s ' costumes was superb . |
| 20 | The six-part drama , adapted from Georges Simenon 's novels , is set in 1950s ' Paris , but was shot in Budapest . |
| 21 | Margaret Howell , British fashion 's great classicist , recently launched her first capsule collection of swimwear , based on Forties ' shapes . |