Example sentences of "[prep] [art] miner ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been increased regulation of peaceful demonstrations since the Public Order Act 1986 and judicial decisions in cases involving picketing during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 , and increased police powers of detention without charge since the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 2 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 3 | During the miners ' strike in 1984 , members of the South Wales area of the National Union of Mineworkers supported the strike call but , months later , a few of them returned to work under extensive protection from the police . |
| 4 | This was seen most recently during the miners ' strike in 1984–5 . |
| 5 | The government feared that the Triple Alliance , forged between the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , the National Union of Railwaymen ( NUR ) and the National Transport Workers ( NTW ) at the beginning of the war , whereby each union offered sympathetic strike support under certain circumstances , might be used to widen the dispute . |
| 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 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The point is nicely illustrated by an important case arising out of the miners ' strike of 1984–85 . |
| 10 | The implied condemnation by Archbishop Runcie of the jingo spirit of the Falklands War , and the open , if confused , critique of the government 's handling of the miners ' strike by the Bishop of Durham , David Jenkins , caused a widening breach between government and the established Church . |
| 11 | Having chosen confrontation with the unions the Heath government went down to important defeats : the resolution of the miners ' strike by the Wilberforce Report in 1972 ; the official solicitor 's intervention to free the ‘ Pentonville Five ’ in the context of demands for a general strike , after which the Industrial Relations Act was virtually a dead letter . |
| 12 | An oral history of the Miners ' Strike in a South Yorkshire pit village |
| 13 | Herbert Smith , President of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , maintained that the 1925 coal dispute had been ‘ an affair of outposts . |
| 14 | An important change in the balance within the industrial movement , and hence within the Labour Party , was brought about by the decline in numbers and influence of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain . |
| 15 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
| 16 | According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Fortunately it coincided with the miners ' strike of 1984 . |
| 19 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But when the problem is looked at from the miners ' point of view a rather different history comes into view . |
| 22 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 23 | Like all left-wingers , Lowe loathed Wilson , who had been elected in 1974 on the back of the wave of industrial militancy which culminated in the miners ' strike of that year . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | The Economist referred to the device of ‘ calling in a High Court judge to write incredible economic nonsense ’ , but whatever view is taken of the justice or the wisdom of the report which recommended a considerable wage increase and which formed the basis of the settlement , the impression given was that the government had set up this enquiry to produce a report which would enable them to yield to the miners ' claim without total loss of face . |
| 26 | The key element in the suspension of the strike was an order signed by Yeltsin at a miners ' rally in Novokuznetsk on May 1 to transfer all coal mines in the Russian Federation from central Soviet to Russian Federation government control . |
| 27 | These objectives , however , proved vulnerable to external events , especially the disruption caused by the miners ' strike of 1984–5 , and the government was forced to revise them downwards . |