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

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1 Having hauled themselves to the top of the manual workers ' pay league , the reduction of miners ' political offensive to an economic demand foundered on the success of economism during the 1972 and 1974 pay offensives .
2 Around it clustered the settlement of miners ' huts .
3 The condition of miners ' housing was customarily poor in the early twentieth century , and there was considerable agitation for its improvement ( Bacon , 1986 ) .
4 THE wife of miners ' leader Arthur Scargill was among six women arrested outside the Conservative Central Office in central London yesterday .
5 THE wife of miners ' leader Arthur Scargill was among six women arrested outside the Conservative Central Office in central London yesterday .
6 It is no use any hon. Member saying that the length of miners ' hours has nothing to do with safety .
7 A 32-day strike in the Karaganda coal fields involving 20,000 miners ended on June 6 with agreement that 15 per cent of production would in future become the property of miners ' work collectives .
8 Has he considered the relation of miners ' wages to the selling prices of coal ? ’
9 Part of the culture of miners ' militancy draws on the religious motifs that moulded working-class ideology — the more you suffer the more you deserve .
10 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 .
11 The history of miners ' trade unionism throughout the twentieth century carried an oddly incidental commitment to transforming those conditions of women 's work .
12 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 .
13 The hon. Gentleman spoke with anxiety of the possibility of a rise in miners ' wages as a consequence of this Bill .
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