Example sentences of "[prep] miners ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | By fighting for pits to be kept open , the NUM was fighting not only for miners ' jobs but also for the survival of miners ' communities . |
| 2 | However , he had been rearrested on April 12 , immediately after his arrival in Donetsk to attend a rally of striking miners [ for miners ' strike see above ; pp. 38129-30 ] , and had been re-released only on May 12 . |
| 3 | It has also become the focus of protest for miners ' support groups all over Lancashire and further afield , as demonstrated by the early arrival of three young members of Lancaster Miners ' Support Group in a transit van . |
| 4 | The status and function of these courts came into question during one of the most critical of these enquiries , that presided over by Lord Wilberforce in 1972 into the dispute about miners ' pay which had led to a widespread stoppage of work . |
| 5 | Around it clustered the settlement of miners ' huts . |
| 6 | IT is not too late to save thousands of miners ' jobs , says John Baker , boss of British Coal 's biggest customer National Power . |
| 7 | You can also see a working sawmill and collection of miners ' lamps . |
| 8 | The history of miners ' trade unionism throughout the twentieth century carried an oddly incidental commitment to transforming those conditions of women 's work . |
| 9 | Part of the culture of miners ' militancy draws on the religious motifs that moulded working-class ideology — the more you suffer the more you deserve . |
| 10 | Having hauled themselves to the top of the manual workers ' pay league , the reduction of miners ' political offensive to an economic demand foundered on the success of economism during the 1972 and 1974 pay offensives . |
| 11 | In winter that walk back home must have been hell : sleet , rain , snow and ice blowing across the moss , wet clothes clinging to chilled skin and ahead and behind a long line of miners ' lanterns " bobbing like glowworms in the dark " . |
| 12 | Arthur Scargill was in no doubt that the government intended to reduce the size of the coalmining industry substantially , through a major programme of pit closures : many tens of thousands of miners ' jobs would be at risk as more and more pits were declared uneconomic , not necessarily because the coal reserves had been worked out but rather because of the perceived costs of mining them , relative to the costs of imports . |
| 13 | By fighting for pits to be kept open , the NUM was fighting not only for miners ' jobs but also for the survival of miners ' communities . |
| 14 | The condition of miners ' housing was customarily poor in the early twentieth century , and there was considerable agitation for its improvement ( Bacon , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | It is no use any hon. Member saying that the length of miners ' hours has nothing to do with safety . |
| 16 | Has he considered the relation of miners ' wages to the selling prices of coal ? ’ |
| 17 | End of miners ' strike — Anti-strike decree |
| 18 | A 32-day strike in the Karaganda coal fields involving 20,000 miners ended on June 6 with agreement that 15 per cent of production would in future become the property of miners ' work collectives . |
| 19 | The Liberal loyalties of the older generation of miners ' officials had been challenged not merely by the idea of independent labour representation but also by the notion of direct action , based on industrial power and leading to a system of " workers ' control " which would supplant parliamentary institutions . |
| 20 | THE wife of miners ' leader Arthur Scargill was among six women arrested outside the Conservative Central Office in central London yesterday . |
| 21 | THE wife of miners ' leader Arthur Scargill was among six women arrested outside the Conservative Central Office in central London yesterday . |
| 22 | The group is made up of miners ' wives and relatives , ably supported by a cross-section of concerned individuals on this particular morning a retired teacher , two people running local businesses , and a lecturer . |
| 23 | The deep disillusion of the mining community ( including miners ' wives who played an unprecedently prominent role in the strike ) at the erosion of their pits , their villages , and their way of life since the 1950s was spontaneous and genuine . |
| 24 | ‘ Uh-huh , ’ she said , busying herself with miners ' lamps , old spectacle cases and various china oddments which had ‘ A souvenir of Cromer ’ stamped on the bottom . |
| 25 | A general strike was never remotely on the agenda , especially after the harsh treatment received by Norman Willis , the new TUC General secretary , from miners ' meetings in militant areas . |
| 26 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman spoke with anxiety of the possibility of a rise in miners ' wages as a consequence of this Bill . |
| 28 | And Horsley had given money to miners ' families during the 1984–5 strike . |
| 29 | He noted that " serious constraints " still affected the economy , including the limited range of natural resources , dependence on miners ' remittances from South Africa and Lesotho 's share of the customs revenue pool in the Southern African Customs Union . |
| 30 | The letter from Industry Minister Tim Sainsbury to Michael Portillo , Chief Secretary of the Treasury , was revealed by miners ' leader Arthur Scargill and the Coalfield Communities Campaign . |