Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] ' strike [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same study reports pickets laying traps for tappers by directing them to wrong venues ( Coulter , Miller , and Walker , 1984 : 46 ) Although telephone-tapping during the miners ' strike was relatively well publicized , it is allegedly by no means a new phenomenon in the policing of industrial disputes . |
| 2 | The success of the policing operation during the miners ' strike was not due to new laws passed by Parliament to give the authorities greater powers . |
| 3 | If anything , the problem after the miners ' strike was that , in a fast-moving sequence of events , the police had accumulated altogether too much power . |
| 4 | A major and long-running source of disorder since the conclusion of the miners ' strike was the industrial dispute with Mr Rupert Murdoch 's News International Group , centred on its new printing plant at Wapping in East London . |
| 5 | A second feature of public order policing highlighted by the miners ' strike was the use of èlite groups of police officers within each police force . |