Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] miner " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 2 | I am conscious of the time , so I say only that it will be a sad day if the Government are allowed to change the legislation , not only for the miners and their communities or for those who , directly or indirectly , are involved in or seek employment in the industry , but for the whole of society . |
| 3 | He was still interested in politics , and for a while a fairly active member of the Labour party , especially during the miners ' strike when he and Solowka canvassed on their behalf . |
| 4 | Vincent spoke almost enviously of the miners ' darkness , and the chance it gave them to reclaim the light . |
| 5 | Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done . |
| 6 | And here it is : I have proof that Neil Kinnock once spent a night of passion alone in a miner 's cottage with a well-known writer . |
| 7 | In carrying through its programme it honoured certain political debts , especially to the miners [ Morgan , 1984 ] . |
| 8 | All three major rail unions are affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour party , and the NUR in particular has a long tradition of sponsoring Labour MPs ( Bagwell 1982 : ch. 12 ) , ‘ equalled only by the miners ’ union' ( Eaton and Gill 1981 : 41 ) . |
| 9 | Shortly after the miners elected their new Left leadership in 1982 , the executive of the union launched a national tour through the coalfields in support of their annual claim . |
| 10 | Old Joseph kept his people away from the miners , and mocked Lawyer as the annuities promised in 1855 failed to arrive . |
| 11 | In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 . |
| 12 | I hope this excluded ‘ young ’ Winston Churchill who seems to be doing more for the miners than the opposition parties put together . |
| 13 | What is certain is that the Yanomami are in a critical state , with imported diseases spreading to epidemic proportions in communities close to the miners . |
| 14 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 15 | The thing that saddens me is that we 're supposed to have a T U C , that organization is supposed to draw together the various trade unions and what are we seeing , an ideal opportunity slipped from our grasp when the miners were facing the issue of jobs to public service workers should have linked up with the miners and we should have took the government on |
| 16 | One of the initiatives er was er the Congress the Wa all Wales Congress that was set up in the miner 's strike for instance . |
| 17 | The point is nicely illustrated by an important case arising out of the miners ' strike of 1984–85 . |
| 18 | In talking of unity , how are we to build unity with , for example , the organisation Women Against Pit Closures , which developed out of the miners strike . |
| 19 | There were worries about the teachers and even about the miners . |
| 20 | By and large it performed well during the miners ' industrial action of 1973–4 and the concurrent ‘ go-slows ’ in the electricity-supply industry , as David Howell recalls : |
| 21 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 22 | This was seen most recently during the miners ' strike in 1984–5 . |