Example sentences of "[prep] miners " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wagonway was constructed to carry coal from local pits to the wooden staithes — the wharves where ships lined up for loading — and brick houses were built for miners and dockers in the town that was exporting four million tons of coal a year by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | ‘ Switch off for miners ’ |
| 3 | UNION leaders hope to plunge Britain into darkness on Saturday as a gesture of support for miners . |
| 4 | By fighting for pits to be kept open , the NUM was fighting not only for miners ' jobs but also for the survival of miners ' communities . |
| 5 | Most British coalfields were developed away from established population centres and required the provision of housing for miners recruited from elsewhere . |
| 6 | He spun symbols bright as sugar-crystals : the poor , dim brothers who were not human yet who spun the glassy fibres ten times the tensile strength of steel along which optical messages could be sent , for surgeons , for miners ; or incredibly strong strands to link the orbiting colonies . |
| 7 | Working conditions in these mines were absolutely horrific for miners . |
| 8 | I am not surprised that the Minister has not mentioned redundancy payments for miners when they are closing pits willy-nilly . |
| 9 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 10 | Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ? |
| 11 | As part of the joint declaration Gorbachev and the nine republican Presidents issued a joint appeal on April 24 for miners to end their eight-week-old strike . |
| 12 | However , he had been rearrested on April 12 , immediately after his arrival in Donetsk to attend a rally of striking miners [ for miners ' strike see above ; pp. 38129-30 ] , and had been re-released only on May 12 . |
| 13 | The National Union of Mineworkers says it had expected the news but Trevor of the pit deputies ' union NACODS had this message for miners . |
| 14 | For miners today the productivity push has changed the face of the industry . |
| 15 | Cramped working positions were a fact of life for miners in the narrow seams , but other trades too complained of cramps and " craft palsies " including saddlers , sawyers and nail makers . |
| 16 | It has also become the focus of protest for miners ' support groups all over Lancashire and further afield , as demonstrated by the early arrival of three young members of Lancaster Miners ' Support Group in a transit van . |
| 17 | Misery for miners |
| 18 | These could be interpreted as semi-abstract representations of figures in landscape with trees , or as miners with pit props . |
| 19 | The prisoners of war were used as miners in the |
| 20 | We were used as miners , yes . |
| 21 | His two eldest , William ( 19 ) and Thomas ( 16 ) and even Richard ( 14 ) had all been described four years earlier , in the 1841 census , as miners . |
| 22 | As we have seen the true extent of the migration to Coniston is rather difficult to determine at this stage , but many of the newcomers possessed certain skills which the mine was quite happy to take advantage of , in addition to their abilities as miners . |
| 23 | It would hit people taking early retirement such as miners , policemen and soldiers . |
| 24 | The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war . |
| 25 | If it turns out that she is not like her husband linguistically , the difference is not treated like the difference between miners and public schoolboys . |
| 26 | It is purely graphic , as are his subsequent posters , for Eureka Stockade ( 1949 ) , a turbulent scene entirely suitable for a ‘ spectacular drama of Australia 's Gold Rush ’ with its clash between miners and the colonial government , and for Where No Vultures Fly ( 1951 ) which was one of Ealing 's big box-office successes . |
| 27 | In May 1920 , there was a gun battle between miners and company guards in Mingo County , caused by the eviction of workers from company houses . |
| 28 | Four people were reported killed and hundreds wounded in violent street battles between miners and security forces . |
| 29 | Men who write about miners lavish poetic pleasure on their bodies , they seek to explain miners in the language of their statuesque and satanic physique . |
| 30 | The status and function of these courts came into question during one of the most critical of these enquiries , that presided over by Lord Wilberforce in 1972 into the dispute about miners ' pay which had led to a widespread stoppage of work . |