Example sentences of "of [art] miners ['s] strike " in BNC.

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1 In her essay ‘ Implications of the Miners ' Strike ’ , she pointed out that :
2 From a massive deficit of £281mi1lion in 1984–5 , the year of the miners ' strike , the sector was able to recover quickly to break-even point and then achieve a handsome surplus of £69million in 1988–9 .
3 The implied condemnation by Archbishop Runcie of the jingo spirit of the Falklands War , and the open , if confused , critique of the government 's handling of the miners ' strike by the Bishop of Durham , David Jenkins , caused a widening breach between government and the established Church .
4 It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now .
5 The point is nicely illustrated by an important case arising out of the miners ' strike of 1984–85 .
6 On the question of the miners ' strike , one study refers to an episode in South Wales where the owner of a bus company was phoned by strikers who wanted to be taken to Derbyshire .
7 A major and long-running source of disorder since the conclusion of the miners ' strike was the industrial dispute with Mr Rupert Murdoch 's News International Group , centred on its new printing plant at Wapping in East London .
8 What do you think of the miners ' strike ? was my first ever searching enquiry .
9 It was in the middle of the miners ' strike , and feelings were running high .
10 The women 's support groups and community organisation of the miners ' strike have given the union movement a new and wider perspective .
11 Having chosen confrontation with the unions the Heath government went down to important defeats : the resolution of the miners ' strike by the Wilberforce Report in 1972 ; the official solicitor 's intervention to free the ‘ Pentonville Five ’ in the context of demands for a general strike , after which the Industrial Relations Act was virtually a dead letter .
12 The number of strikers receiving supplementary benefit has always constituted a very insignificant proportion of the total number of persons on strike the lowest figure was 0.12 per cent in 1962 and the highest was 14.46 per cent in 1972 which was the year of the miners ' strike .
13 One spin-off of the miners ' strike has been management 's disappointment ( see House of Commons Energy Committee , January 1988 ; comments by Sir Robert Haslam , Chairman of British Coal ) with pit deputies responsible for health and safety , who are members of NACODS .
14 The incident took place in the course of the miners ' strike , within several miles of four collieries , and the policeman in charge said that he had reason to fear that a breach of the peace would occur if the miners continued on their journey .
15 We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year .
16 Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson .
17 An oral history of the Miners ' Strike in a South Yorkshire pit village
18 Studies of the Miners ' Strike have in general focused on their national political dimensions .
19 In scenes reminiscent of the miners ' strike a decade ago , one policewoman was injured and 14 people were arrested .
20 Unfortunately the 1926 Illuminations had to be terminated prematurely because of a miners ' strike , although they were reinstated for one night on October 2 for the opening of New South Promenade by Lord Derby .
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