Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] miners ' " in BNC.

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1 One actor I became friendly with , Terry , had done only agit-prop before , touring the country in a van with a company called Vanguard in a music-hall pastiche about the miners ' strike of 1972 called Dig !
2 Herbert Smith , President of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , maintained that the 1925 coal dispute had been ‘ an affair of outposts .
3 Clearly , there were some changes and in some industries , most notably coal mining , national wage negotiations disappeared in November 1926 after the collapse of the miners ' resistance to the coal lock-out , to be replaced by district agreements .
4 In addition , in February 1974 , these interlocking groups had special reasons for wanting a Conservative government returned apart from the fear of a miners ' victory leading to anarchy and national bankruptcy .
5 The local branches of the miners ' union set up soup kitchens , with much local help from butchers and shopkeepers .
6 Havelock Wilson 's later reputation in the trade union movement as a " bosses " man " , an imperialist , an anti-democrat riding roughshod over his members ' wishes and a betrayer of the miners ' cause during the 1926 General Strike diverges strangely from his earlier image as a militant , a rabble-rouser , a fearless advocate of the seafarer , " stumping the country agitating , organising and inciting " , and as an advocate , even an originator , of the " new unionism " which shook the trade union establishment to its foundations in the late 1880s and early 1890s .
7 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 .
8 Music is meant to be about escapism , not dreary boring subjects like the miners ' strike and animal rights .
9 Verdeţ was pushed into the porter 's cabin at the entrance to the mine and obliged to telephone Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest with the miners ' message .
10 Significant opposition from the Miners ' Union over high cost capacity cuts , new escalation of anti-nuclear hostilities , worsening relations with the Soviet bloc : any of these factors could significantly affect West Germany 's energy future .
11 The thrill of the rallies before the miners ' ballot was that they evoked echoes of that kind of military manoeuvre , disciplined , exotic troops , mobilised in precise , obedient formation , like ballroom dancing .
12 The relative proportions of each of the parameters in the miners ' and the general population groups were compared for statistical signficance using the χ 2 test .
13 Geary explains the return to tactical violence in the 1 980s partly in terms of the police 's tougher and more sophisticated approach to public disorder induced by the inner-city disturbances of 1981 , though he attributes much of the unusually high level of violence in the miners ' strike to certain exceptional characteristics of the dispute :
14 There was a slight preponderance of hiatus hernia in the control group and of Barrett 's oesophagus in the miners ' group , but these were not statistically significant .
15 He used this argument not just to win the passive support of the miners ' wives and other dependants but also to mobilize their active participation .
16 The Government took the view that the distinction between public and private was meritless , partly because in the course of the miners ' dispute , summonses brought under the 1936 Act , section 5 were dismissed because the persons charged were able to show that they were on National Coal Board or other private property , and no offence was committed even though the victims of the threats were on the public highway .
17 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 .
18 The same study reports pickets laying traps for tappers by directing them to wrong venues ( Coulter , Miller , and Walker , 1984 : 46 ) Although telephone-tapping during the miners ' strike was relatively well publicized , it is allegedly by no means a new phenomenon in the policing of industrial disputes .
19 Many of the most influential other union leaders , Thomas from the right wing , Bevin from the left-centre ( which was his position in those days ) , might have considerable doubt about the tactical skill of the miners ' leaders .
20 An important change in the balance within the industrial movement , and hence within the Labour Party , was brought about by the decline in numbers and influence of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain .
21 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 .
22 In her essay ‘ Implications of the Miners ' Strike ’ , she pointed out that :
23 " Nearly every convenience which the nature of the miners ' occupation demanded had to be furnished and maintained by the drudgery of the womenfolk . "
24 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 .
25 Robert Smillie , who became the leader of the Miners ' Federation , told the 1911 conference : " I think it is a shame and a disgrace that the lives of our miners ' wives , from four in the morning until 11 o'clock at night should be one long day of slavery . "
26 Unions continue to make a vigorous and robust contribution to the defence of working-class interests in a hostile society ; but , especially since the unsuccessful conclusion to the miners ' strike , there is no escaping the problems facing the movement .
27 The women 's support groups and community organisation of the miners ' strike have given the union movement a new and wider perspective .
28 Studies of the Miners ' Strike have in general focused on their national political dimensions .
29 Let me put his mind at rest : any notion that the police were impartial disappeared with their behaviour in the miners ' strike .
30 Nevertheless , it is a tribute to the miners ' ingenuity and perseverance that 19 of the 21 mines laid were successfully detonated .
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