Example sentences of "[art] [adj] miners ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These courses , which are organised in collaboration with the Small-Scale Miners ' Association of Zimbabwe and the Intermediate Technology Development Group , are designed to give intensive practical training in basic geology , gold prospection , surveying , sampling , orebody evaluation , business and financial planning as well as covering mining law , mine engineering , beneficiation methods , etc . |
| 2 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 3 | The Scottish miners ' leader , Mick McGahey , granite-faced and gravel-voiced , brought them to their feet when he concluded : " This is a united executive . |
| 4 | Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The vampiros , which have wingspans of more than three feet , swoop into their thatch huts late at night and attach themselves to the sleeping miners ' heads , necks and feet . |
| 7 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
| 8 | The great miners ' riot , however , occurred outside the ‘ Bullers ' Arms ’ in 1842 — a tavern which was not mentioned in the 1852 directory . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The debate revealed again the traditional animosity between the right-wing engineers and electricians unions and the left-wing miners ' union . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A national miners ' strike , involving also miners from the privately owned Southern Peru Copper Corporation , nevertheless remained in prospect for mid-October . |
| 13 | This incongruity was exposed in the spring of 1963 during a famous miners ' strike . |
| 14 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 15 | One of them takes the form of an almost completely restored mining village , complete with a stream-driven miners ' cage , ironworks , a bakery selling delicious break baked on the spot , as well as other ships and an ‘ antique ’ house suitably equipped — i.e. with a black-leaded range and |
| 16 | Delegates representing miners in most Soviet coalfields held a week-long congress in mid-June in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk , at which it was decided in principle to set up an independent miners ' union . |
| 17 | A second independent miners ' congress , held in Donetsk ( Ukraine ) , ended with a declaration on Oct. 26 that it had been the founding congress of an independent miners ' trade union . |