Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | You seem to think that 1960s ' antitrust law enforcement was wonderful because the government ‘ took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even without the new technologies it seems unlikely that the macho-mean-streets style of journalism would have survived intact , given the Thatcherite focus on the spiritual ( and monetary ) values of hearth and home , together with soaring mortgage rates , the civilising influence of feminism and 80s ' health consciousness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was prematurely signalled in the mid-1980s by the Pet Shop Boys , celebrating the paninaro look which mixed Italian casual wear and 1950s ' American retro . |
| 6 | ‘ That may be , but I ' ll decide when I leave ! ’ |