Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] miners " in BNC.
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1 | There was much public sympathy for the miners in general , however rebarbative the personality and creed of Arthur Scargill himself . |
2 | Also , and in sharp contrast with his attitude during the General Strike , he exhibited considerable sympathy for the miners . |
3 | IF YOU missed the October march when the heavens opened on over 200,000 supporters , there 's still time to do your bit for the miners . |
4 | That 's why the name has been changed , and it does mean support for the miners . |
5 | That is a measure of the support for the miners and the desire for the country to keep a certain degree of energy self-sufficiency once oil and gas reserves are gone . |
6 | One actor I became friendly with , Terry , had done only agit-prop before , touring the country in a van with a company called Vanguard in a music-hall pastiche about the miners ' strike of 1972 called Dig ! |
7 | The economic structure of the countryside near the line-of-rail , linking the mines with ports via South Africa , was transformed to provide labour for the miners on temporary labour contracts in which the miner 's family would stay behind on the family farm . |
8 | The failure to socialise the work of washing and feeding confined women 's labour for the miners , and indirectly for the coal owners too , to a private economy in which women were subject to vigorous authoritarianism and economic powerlessness . |
9 | INVESTORS should take note of the fact that Sir Ian MacGregor , hammer of the miners and now chairman of printing group HunterPrint , has been increasing his stake with the purchase of 840,000 shares , giving him a stake of 3.4 per cent . |
10 | Railway workers and bus drivers were victimized by employees and forced to sign documents indicating their intention to leave their unions , and the miners in many districts , though by no means all , found their wages reduced in the wake of the defeat of the miners in November 1926 . |
11 | Herbert Smith , President of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , maintained that the 1925 coal dispute had been ‘ an affair of outposts . |
12 | Clearly , there were some changes and in some industries , most notably coal mining , national wage negotiations disappeared in November 1926 after the collapse of the miners ' resistance to the coal lock-out , to be replaced by district agreements . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | They were very concerned to encourage religious observance among their employees , for example , and not only provided the churches and chapels but also influenced the selection of the clergy : they ‘ insisted that they [ the clergy ] were solely concerned with the spiritual guidance of the miners , [ but ] their concern with religion fits in with their policy of making every aspect of life in the colliery villages a matter for their scrutiny ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 91 ) . |
15 | Havelock Wilson 's later reputation in the trade union movement as a " bosses " man " , an imperialist , an anti-democrat riding roughshod over his members ' wishes and a betrayer of the miners ' cause during the 1926 General Strike diverges strangely from his earlier image as a militant , a rabble-rouser , a fearless advocate of the seafarer , " stumping the country agitating , organising and inciting " , and as an advocate , even an originator , of the " new unionism " which shook the trade union establishment to its foundations in the late 1880s and early 1890s . |
16 | One spin-off of the miners ' strike has been management 's disappointment ( see House of Commons Energy Committee , January 1988 ; comments by Sir Robert Haslam , Chairman of British Coal ) with pit deputies responsible for health and safety , who are members of NACODS . |
17 | Whatever one 's political leanings , the threat of serious disruption from the miners , union seemed quite evidently an ideological hangover . |
18 | Significant opposition from the Miners ' Union over high cost capacity cuts , new escalation of anti-nuclear hostilities , worsening relations with the Soviet bloc : any of these factors could significantly affect West Germany 's energy future . |
19 | Geary explains the return to tactical violence in the 1 980s partly in terms of the police 's tougher and more sophisticated approach to public disorder induced by the inner-city disturbances of 1981 , though he attributes much of the unusually high level of violence in the miners ' strike to certain exceptional characteristics of the dispute : |
20 | There was a slight preponderance of hiatus hernia in the control group and of Barrett 's oesophagus in the miners ' group , but these were not statistically significant . |
21 | It is a gross slander on the miners to talk about the cost of coal and about productivity when miners in Britain are achieving record productivity figures . |
22 | For Mrs Thatcher and her government , antagonism towards the miners in part reflected a desire for revenge against the union which was widely perceived as precipitating the political crisis which led to the downfall of a previous Conservative government , led by Edward Heath , in 1974 . |
23 | Eight years after the end of the war Britain experienced its only general strike , in defence of the miners . |
24 | Jimmy Knapp , leader of the National Union of Railwaymen , argues that his members who took action in support of the miners during the coal strike had a genuine interest in the fight to keep pits open : fewer mines mean fewer coal trains . |
25 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
26 | Given the lack of clear and early advice , the General Council 's policy was ignored and many second line workers came out in support of the miners . |
27 | About two million workers had come out in support of the miners , a number which represented almost half the total which the TUC could have called out in support of the miners — and more than it did . |
28 | About two million workers had come out in support of the miners , a number which represented almost half the total which the TUC could have called out in support of the miners — and more than it did . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | In 1946 the mines were nationalised with the vigorous support of the miners after sixty years resistance by the coal-owners , and shortly afterwards the petty bourgeoisie of the medical profession were organised into a National Health Service . |