Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] miners [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The condition of miners ' housing was customarily poor in the early twentieth century , and there was considerable agitation for its improvement ( Bacon , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Around it clustered the settlement of miners ' huts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | THE wife of miners ' leader Arthur Scargill was among six women arrested outside the Conservative Central Office in central London yesterday . |
| 5 | THE wife of miners ' leader Arthur Scargill was among six women arrested outside the Conservative Central Office in central London yesterday . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman spoke with anxiety of the possibility of a rise in miners ' wages as a consequence of this Bill . |
| 7 | You can also see a working sawmill and collection of miners ' lamps . |
| 8 | And Horsley had given money to miners ' families during the 1984–5 strike . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Has he considered the relation of miners ' wages to the selling prices of coal ? ’ |
| 11 | End of miners ' strike — Anti-strike decree |
| 12 | It is no use any hon. Member saying that the length of miners ' hours has nothing to do with safety . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The history of miners ' trade unionism throughout the twentieth century carried an oddly incidental commitment to transforming those conditions of women 's work . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |