Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' strike [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 2 | Music is meant to be about escapism , not dreary boring subjects like the miners ' strike and animal rights . |
| 3 | The NMA leadership and many rank-and-file members became increasingly disenchanted with MFGB strategy during the 1920 national miners ' strike and the 1921 lockout , and less than a third of Nottinghamshire miners bothered to vote in a 1921 ballot on whether to accept the offered settlement or continue the dispute ( Griffin , 1962 , p.91 , p.102 ) . |
| 4 | To return to the fortunes of the government : between February and October , the minority Labour government settled the miners ' strike and abolished the Pay Board . |
| 5 | The miners ' strike and the three-day week . |
| 6 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 7 | Jimmy Knapp , left-wing leader of the National union of Railwaymen believes that his members had a ‘ genuine ’ interest in the miners ' strike because pit closures would mean fewer coal trains . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The miners ' strikes that have paralysed about one-third of Soviet pits are slowly breaking backbone industries , such as steel , gas and chemicals . |
| 10 | Heath 's revived corporatism in the early 1970s crumpled with the miners ' strikes and the OPEC price explosion , while the Labour government of the late 1970s was able only to breathe intermittent life into a system of corporate direction which powerful producer-groups and multinational companies in the so-called ‘ meso-economy ’ were both undermining . |
| 11 | Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases . |
| 12 | The resumption followed an oil workers ' strike and the planned transfer of the trans-Andean oil pipeline from the United States company Texaco to the state-owned PETROECUADOR [ see pp. 36344 ; 37068 ] . |
| 13 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 14 | In Britain 1984 turned out to be the year of the coalminers ' strike and Frankie Goes to Hollywood . |
| 15 | According to Connor , Hampson threatened a players ' strike unless the travel ban was lifted but after a rebuke from Chapman acquiesced in the situation . |
| 16 | Seven of the previous eight labour-contract renegotiations have involved either a players ' strike or a lockout . |