Example sentences of "[prep] the miner ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The judge said he was satisfied BC would ‘ take note ’ of the miners ' concerns and the assurances given would be carried out . |
2 | Many of the most influential other union leaders , Thomas from the right wing , Bevin from the left-centre ( which was his position in those days ) , might have considerable doubt about the tactical skill of the miners ' leaders . |
3 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
4 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
5 | He used this argument not just to win the passive support of the miners ' wives and other dependants but also to mobilize their active participation . |
6 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
7 | Nothing came of a suggestion to bring over a preacher from Germany to take care of the miners ' needs . |
8 | It was announced in Bucharest on Sept. 30 that a US$300,000,000 World Bank loan to Romania had been postponed because of the miners ' riots . |
9 | Like interlocking ripples came the shock-waves of the miners ' steps . |
10 | Knockshinnock Castle colliery was situated on the south side of the New Cumnock to Dalmellington Road , near the miners ' rows called Connelpark , about one mile east of New Cumnock . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Then through the use of secondary picketing , frequently associated with intimidation and physical violence ( such as we have seen repeatedly over the past decade in connection with the miners ' strikes , the Shrewsbury incidents , Grunwick , the lorry drivers ' strike ) , unions become a threat to personal freedom . |
13 | The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners ' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use . |