Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' strike " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who tried to hide during the 1984–85 miners ' strike by wearing a bag over his head ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | [ 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 . ] |
| 5 | There was one major exception which worked well — the Civil Contingencies Unit created after the 1972 miners ' strike . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 11 | This incongruity was exposed in the spring of 1963 during a famous miners ' strike . |
| 12 | A central issue in the 1984-5 miners ' strike was the preservation of jobs and communities on the coalfields . |
| 13 | That message was later underlined in the 1984–5 miners ' strike . |
| 14 | Second-wave feminism in Britain has drawn strength from working-class women 's campaigns , like the 1968 Ford strike , the Grunwick dispute , and the women 's groups active in the 1984 miners ' strike . |
| 15 | There were 72 million working days lost in the 1980s , nearly one third of which — 22.3 million — were lost in the 1984 miners ' strike alone . |
| 16 | Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike . |
| 17 | During the latter half of 1990 intercommunal and linguistic tensions were again raised by a long-running teachers ' strike which from September severely disrupted both state and private schools in French-speaking Wallonia , where teachers were demanding pay increases in line with those paid in ( more prosperous ) Flanders . |