Example sentences of "[prep] a miner ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the 1926 Illuminations had to be terminated prematurely because of a miners ' strike , although they were reinstated for one night on October 2 for the opening of New South Promenade by Lord Derby . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The lamp could be hooked onto the front of a miner 's cap or hung on a wooden roof support while he was working . |
| 4 | While playing in Pittsburgh , Muni had met Judge M. A. Musmanno , who had written a book on the murder in 1929 of a miner 's leader and of the subsequent charges against policemen . |
| 5 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 6 | Inside , the walls of the packed Pontllanfraith leisure centre were hung with a miners ' banner and posters from the 1987 campaign : outside the speech was broadcast via a video link to hundreds more standing spellbound in a field . |
| 7 | There is a famous story of Nilsson arriving at a rehearsal of his Metropolitan Ring as Brünnhilde with a miner 's lamp on her head : the conductor was well spotlit , but no one could see what was happening on stage . |
| 8 | Born into a miner 's family in Gallarta in the Basque region in 1895 , she was a founder member of the Spanish Communist Party ( Partido Comunista de España — PCE ) in 1920 and was elected to the Cortes in 1936 , representing Asturias . |
| 9 | The 1927 Conference heard a moving appeal on the issue from a miner 's wife who referred to the women 's support for male trade unionists during the 1926 General Strike : ‘ Surely you will not turn the women down on this question because it was the women who stood four-square with you in your dispute ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 12 | The key element in the suspension of the strike was an order signed by Yeltsin at a miners ' rally in Novokuznetsk on May 1 to transfer all coal mines in the Russian Federation from central Soviet to Russian Federation government control . |