Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] workers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 2 | In the mid eighties , Jacques Delors swept away years of Labour Europhobia with his seductive prospectus for a workers ' Europe that would outflank national governments — especially the one in Whitehall . |
| 3 | With hindsight , it is clear that at the time we did not fully grasp the real significance of the workers ' position . |
| 4 | The collapse of the Second International under the impact of the First World War , which dealt a severe blow to socialist illusions , demonstrated the need for an alternative solution to the workers ' plight . |
| 5 | They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment . |
| 6 | It looks like any high street sweatshop except for the light streaming through the huge windows looking across Paris , the dummies bearing the names an exact shapes of various famous models and customers , and the quiet pride in the workers ' faces as they attach elaborately-tooled gold leather to a bustier , hand-embroidered velvet details to a pocket flap , a mink trim to an underskirt . |
| 7 | F. W. Moorman , Professor of English Language at Leeds and an active supporter of the Workers ' Educational Association , told the annual conference in 1914 that the main purpose of the teaching of English literature was not to impart knowledge , or to " equip students for the conquest of the world " ; indeed , the object was not to " teach " at all but to " delight " and , " for some , to sweeten leisure " . |
| 8 | The fact is that the capable and intelligent workman , especially if skilled , at this time provided both the main prop of middle-class social control and industrial discipline and also the most active cadres of the workers ' collective self-defence . |