Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Ron Todd of the Transport and General Workers ' Union blamed the systematic bias and ignorance of the courts , and the new freedom to dismiss strikers granted by this Government , for the failure of the dock strike which was called by his union this summer . |
| 2 | On the evening of 14th May , 1974 the Ulster Workers ' Council began the general strike which spread through Northern Ireland and lasted sixteen days . |
| 3 | However that may have been , there is no doubting that at plant level and in two cases ( the Scottish Daily News and KME ) an ideological perception of workers ' control precluded the effective delegation of executive authority to management . |
| 4 | By the early 1980s the ETUC was expressing increasing dissatisfaction at this lack of progress , and the relationship between the employers and trade unions reached its lowest ebb when employers ' opposition ensured the freezing by the Council of the " Vredeling Directive " on worker consultation in 1986 . |
| 5 | But the DTI did not appreciate that the accountants ' study missed the central point of the Department 's inquiry : the auditors were not asked to answer the simple question of whether there was enough money in Barlow Clowes ' coffers to cover the amount owned to investors . |
| 6 | Ben Tillett , Tom McCarthy and Tom Mann , general secretary , organizer and president respectively of an enlarged Dockers ' Union became the original strike leaders , with John Burns coming later on to the scene . |
| 7 | Rowntree 's moving account of rural poverty complemented Bowley 's careful statistics , as did several similar painstaking , unsensational accounts of poverty in this period , all remarkably alike in the details of hardship they recounted. from 1909 to 1913 the Fabian Women 's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families in Lambeth , published as Round About a Pound a Week , written by Maud Pember Reeves 's in 1907 At the Works by Lady Florence Bell surveyed the lives and living standards of the people of Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | Philip Cullum of the Consumers ' Association said the average customer would be no better off . |