Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 2 | The generation of this Hercynian ' folding' is discussed later in terms of late Carboniferous basin development . |
| 3 | The desire to ingratiate a way into the listener 's consciousness and thus inveigle an all-important content is the reason all these groups draw inspiration from Sinatra , Bacharach and David , Sondheim , Steely Dan , early seventies ' soul , to produce slick , crafted , sophisticated pop . |
| 4 | 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 ' . |
| 5 | It showed a bright-faced man running on a beach with two girls , both of whom were wearing fifties ' bikinis . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | THESE Hartlepool lads throw everything into this two-track demo , and end up sounding like early Eighties ' pop combined with touches of Nineties ' hardcore . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were old roses climbing up these walls and other old roses in borders — I mean really old ones , not nineteen twenties ' and thirties ' ones which catalogues count as old . |
| 10 | Miss Hepburn , best known for starring roles in such 1960s ' classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's , recently toured refugee camps in famine-ravaged Somalia as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nation 's children 's fund . |
| 11 | She had only seen Johnny dressed in what she supposed must be the nineteen forties ' version of casual wear ; but , of course , when he was formally attired he would have worn starched collars with his shirt , detachable and fastened with one of the studs which she now held in her hand . |
| 12 | But before long , the company found itself in the midst of the early 1980s ' recession , an event that , by Mr Garner 's own admission , nearly finished TI off for good . |
| 13 | ‘ You talk of the eight twelves ' energy bolts as if they were alive , ’ remarked Jinkwa . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is doubtful whether even one of the eight twelves ' living bullets could have cut through the atmosphere created by the Doctor 's words . |
| 16 | The late 1970s ' level of manufacturing investment stood as a record until 1987 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He will probably find his Treasury advisers are far less sanguine : the Treasury believes that the same factors which produced the late 1980s ' consumer boom are now working in reverse , with falling confidence and asset values undermining consumption though incomes are relatively buoyant . |
| 19 | Old-style Eighties ' computers , sold with high margin and short lifespan , have long ago been cost-depreciated to zero by corporations . |
| 20 | One of the many highlights is the view down Loch Shiel from Glenfinnan , a vista that has been reproduced many times on gaudy retouched 60s ' postcards , and on calendars handed out at Christmas by firms who manufacture ball-bearings . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the first case a combination of inflation and world growth ultimately saved us ( as it did so many other sixties ' optimists ) , and subsequently ammonia and fertilizers became one of our most successful businesses . |