Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] miners " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general the years from 1793 to 1815 do not seem to have been particularly bad in real-wage experience for the Cornish miners , though they suffered like others from the famine price levels of 1795 , 1801 and 1812 , in each of which crises they rioted . |
| 2 | Who tried to hide during the 1984–85 miners ' strike by wearing a bag over his head ? |
| 3 | This arrangement means there is no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a State of Emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 4 | This discreet arrangement means , among other things , that there was no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a state of emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 5 | The opportunity for a serious educational intervention was missed : a sad contrast to the rapid organisation of adult education lectures by Yorkshire WEA and Nottingham University during the 1926 miners ' lockout , especially in the light of the College 's unambiguous commitment to a working-class adult education that is independent and emancipatory , that analyses and seeks to explain the structures of inequality and power that operate in British society and elsewhere . |
| 6 | [ That this House welcomes the public announcement by Her Majesty 's Government of the identity of the new head of MI5 ; but calls on Her Majesty 's Government to make a full statement about the role of Stella Rimington , in particular in connection with the activities of Mr. David Hart during the 1984 miners ' strike . ] |
| 7 | Mr Tommy Brennan , stewards ' convenor , says they worked during the 1984-1985 miners strike — incurring the wrath of the NUM — after management warned that any cool down would threaten the works . |
| 8 | Colin MacLeod , chairman and owner of Nottinghamshire-based Caledonian Mining , which competed against the consortium for the pit , said : ‘ There has been far too much in the press about the poor miners being done and that we were the big bad boys coming up to take over . |
| 9 | And when it comes to danger , what about the fifty-seven miners buried alive in the Borken disaster only this year ? |
| 10 | There was one major exception which worked well — the Civil Contingencies Unit created after the 1972 miners ' strike . |
| 11 | Nearly 50,000 striking mineworkers from the Black Sea town of Zonguldak , who had begun in early January a protest march on foot to Ankara , called off the march on Jan. 9 in response to a call from Semsi Denizer , leader of the largest miners union , Maden-Is . |
| 12 | There has been little pattern in the movements of the 23,000 miners who were ‘ relocated ’ from mines throughout the country . |
| 13 | The " sett " referred to as being held by Wilson might have been what we now know as the Tilberthwaite Mine ; which had been an attractive prospect from the days of the Elizabethan miners and continued to be investigated on and off right up to the 1930's . |
| 14 | Six weeks later , when the remaining bodies were brought out , militant miners , veterans of the 1819 miners strike had agitated successfully enough for Holmes to comment : ‘ Their great grief was disturbed by agitators and others to create distrust and confusion by acrimonious and malignant observation . ’ |
| 15 | It was not until the Basque iron deposits were exploited by foreign capital , instead of by the archaic techniques of the Basque miners , that Spain was to acquire a substitute for wool . |
| 16 | But it 's the riot squads that follow up to make the arrests and today , on the fields of battle around Orgreave , the police were involved in some of the most vicious hand-to-hand fighting of the entire miners ' dispute . |
| 17 | THE LEADER of the eight miners trapped for 15 hours half a mile underground told yesterday of their joy at seeing the first rescuer . |
| 18 | The clinic and endoscopy were initially held in Nottingham , but because of relatively poor attendance at the clinic and since a large proportion of the retired miners in the North Nottinghamshire Pension Scheme live in and around Mansfield , a session was held in the endoscopy unit at King 's Mill Hospital , Mansfield . |
| 19 | So , by suggestion , Lawrence invites us to become members of the mining community , and to share the lot of the shadowy miners and the stooping housewife . |
| 20 | Probably many urban employers in the new forms of manufacture would have liked more of their workers to have become self-disciplined Methodists , but it was the employers of the village-dwelling miners who could already appreciate the benefits by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | The nature of UK energy supply and demand by the end of the century is chiefly dependent on the longer-term policy implications of the 1984/5 miners ' strike . |
| 22 | The wearing of breathing apparatus , although necessary , was known to be risky ; the trapped men were not accustomed to the equipment and anyone who has used it knows how alarming and claustrophobic the experience can be ; the effect can be a compelling desire to rip off the apparatus and if one of the trapped miners was to do so while passing through the gas in Bank mine , death would be almost instantaneous . |
| 23 | Now I do n't know if you remember anything about the nine days of the General Strike , as opposed to the s sort of the whole miners ' strike in that year . |
| 24 | It has already lasted longer than the one two years ago , a tribute to the organisational powers of the independent miners ' union , which unites the various strike committees that sprang up in 1989 . |
| 25 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
| 26 | By the end of 1986 about 70 per cent of the 27,600 miners employed by the state mining company COMIBOL had been made redundant as mines shut down . |
| 27 | Henry Hamilton claims , in his well managed English Brass and Copper Industries to 1800 , that " most of the German miners were killed , " but this is certainly not so ; nor is there any premiss conferring authenticity upon his statement that " the works at Keswick … were destroyed . " |
| 28 | Yet in the 1980s the capacity of a determined government to ‘ sit out ’ forms of direct action — most obviously in the case of the 1985 miners ' strike — raises doubts even about this form of pressure-group action . |
| 29 | Towsie ( nickname for one of the foreign miners ) came and sat down beside me while the smoke cleared a bit , and then took me to the trench , which was full of red embers , roasting the rock as when you roast eggs in the ashes . |
| 30 | Lawrence had it , and more recently Vic Allen in his history of the Left 's rise in the National Union of Mineworkers , The Militancy of the British Miners ( Moor Press , 1981 ) writes about his attachment to these men . |