Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] ' union [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less .
2 Kravchenko came in for fierce criticism at the seventh congress of the USSR Journalists ' Union held on Feb. 5-7 , over the return of political censorship of state television , as witnessed recently in the withdrawal of the Vzglyad documentary series and the return by the flagship news programme Vremya to official propaganda and exhortation .
3 Individual trade unions also reflected this continuous decline throughout the 1920s and early 1930s ; the coal miners ' union declined from 936,653 members in 1921 to 885,789 in 1925 and to 554,015 in 1932 while , for the same dates , respectively , trade union membership in the railway unions fell from 560,875 to 528,764 and 399,184.46 There also appears to have been no let up in the determination to forge a more effective industrial alliance — even though the General Council stopped short of another general strike .
4 THE TUC cleared the way yesterday for the rebel electricians ' union to return to the fold .
5 A crisis of inmate unrest , with recurrent rooftop protests or rioting ; a staff crisis , with the Prison Officers ' Union forcing thousands of prisoners to be held in police cells ; above all , a numbers crisis , with successive Home Secretaries announcing , at various times , that the breaking point of the system would be reached when the prison population passed the 40,000 , or the 44,000 , or the 50,000 mark .
6 Head teachers decided to obstruct school performance league tables ; a second teachers ' union voted to boycott the national curriculum tests ; and Lord Skidelsky , a Tory member of the council which sets the tests , resigned .
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