Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] miners ' " in BNC.
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1 | But it 's the riot squads that follow up to make the arrests and today , on the fields of battle around Orgreave , the police were involved in some of the most vicious hand-to-hand fighting of the entire miners ' dispute . |
2 | Now I do n't know if you remember anything about the nine days of the General Strike , as opposed to the s sort of the whole miners ' strike in that year . |
3 | It has already lasted longer than the one two years ago , a tribute to the organisational powers of the independent miners ' union , which unites the various strike committees that sprang up in 1989 . |
4 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
5 | These courses , which are organised in collaboration with the Small-Scale Miners ' Association of Zimbabwe and the Intermediate Technology Development Group , are designed to give intensive practical training in basic geology , gold prospection , surveying , sampling , orebody evaluation , business and financial planning as well as covering mining law , mine engineering , beneficiation methods , etc . |
6 | Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening . |
7 | The vampiros , which have wingspans of more than three feet , swoop into their thatch huts late at night and attach themselves to the sleeping miners ' heads , necks and feet . |