Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] miners " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response to the miners ' action , both in Romania and abroad , was generally one of condemnation , although the opposition and some observers also emphasised the government 's responsibility for creating a situation in which such riots could occur . |
| 2 | The majority of the miners had never claimed state benefits before and were intimidated by the whole process . |
| 3 | That is a measure of the support for the miners and the desire for the country to keep a certain degree of energy self-sufficiency once oil and gas reserves are gone . |
| 4 | ‘ the slogan ‘ the mines for the miners ’ meant something . |
| 5 | Lives of individuals and families are deeply damaged ; and in the case of the miners , whole communities are in danger of danger of being shattered . |
| 6 | The signatory of the letter in the case of the miners was Mr Roy Lynk , President of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers but in the case of the general population this was the patient 's general practitioner . |
| 7 | Their story ca n't be written without the story of the men , but then neither could the story of the miners be truly told without including the women . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Railway workers and bus drivers were victimized by employees and forced to sign documents indicating their intention to leave their unions , and the miners in many districts , though by no means all , found their wages reduced in the wake of the defeat of the miners in November 1926 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With the withdrawal of the miners , protestors again returned to University Square on June 18 , but the new Interior Minister embarked on a series of talks with student leaders to defuse the situation . |
| 16 | Miners ' Union solicitor Mark Stephens claimed after the hearing : ‘ This is the most amazing Christmas present from the judges to the miners . |
| 17 | ‘ The four who were suspended for a year in 1984 after the demos during the Miners ’ Strike . |
| 18 | As a system for payment and the organization of underground practice , it was undoubtedly in decline during the decades prior to the Second World War , but the historical legacy of the butty and its ramifications permeated the lives of the miners . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 21 | But these portraits were made , ‘ mainly to distract the attention of the miners from what I was really drawing ’ . |
| 22 | " Nearly every convenience which the nature of the miners ' occupation demanded had to be furnished and maintained by the drudgery of the womenfolk . " |
| 23 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 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 | He knew the mood of the TUC , his own prowess at wheedling persuasion , and the need of the miners for outside support . |
| 27 | Cocooned in noise , the hostile presence of the rest of the miners oppressing her , she felt fear thrusting in at her with the decibels of the freighter 's flight . |
| 28 | There were two major reports on the news , one showing mass rallies in Spain on the eve of the elections there , hundreds of thousands of ordinary people crammed into sports stadia to hear their party leaders , and the other on the miners ' ballot , with interviews among the miners who travelled in busloads from coalfields in Derbyshire and Lancashire for the Sheffield rally , interviews with Michael McGahey on the road about the vilification of Scargill , and the sight of Scargill himself appealing to the miners to vote for their union and against the National Coal Board . |
| 29 | All the customers in the Miners Arms bar today backed the change of name . |
| 30 | Only in the Midlands , where the methods were more modern and the communities less separate , was there some doubt about the solidarity of the miners . |