Example sentences of "miners ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the miners ' sense of anger at the prolonged destruction of their industry is also worthy of note . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The point is nicely illustrated by an important case arising out of the miners ' strike of 1984–85 . |
| 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 | The miners ' strike of 1984/5 was without doubt one of the most important and serious disputes of its kind for at least sixty years , that is since the General Strike of 1926 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Fortunately it coincided with the miners ' strike of 1984 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The miners ' strike of 1984–85 correctly anticipated an accelerated run-down of employment by British Coal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Do you feel justified in smoothing the figures across the sudden oil price rise of 1974 or the miners ' strike of 1984 ? |
| 16 | The two most important episodes in public order policing during this period were the CND campaign against cruise missiles in the first half of the decade , and the miners ' strike during 1984/5 ; we will examine each of these in turn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Who tried to hide during the 1984–85 miners ' strike by wearing a bag over his head ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The miners ' strike in July showed how quickly workers ' discontent can erupt , take organised and radical form , and acquire leaders . |
| 21 | This corrective to assertions of media omnipotence can be found in a recent study of a major political/industrial story , the 1984 — 5 miners ' strike in Britain . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Following the miners ' strike in 1984 , industrial action has sunk again , to what seems its lowest point in the period under consideration , though it is still too soon to tell if this will be sustained . |
| 25 | This was seen most recently during the miners ' strike in 1984–5 . |
| 26 | An oral history of the Miners ' Strike in a South Yorkshire pit village |
| 27 | Miners ' strike in Silesia |
| 28 | Two parliamentary inquiries reported in January , one into the ethnic clashes in Tirgu Mures in March 1990 [ see p. 37327 ] , and the other into the violence surrounding the miners ' dispersal of demonstrators in Bucharest in June [ see pp. 37544-45 ] . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The miners ' ladder-way in Bonsor East Shaft ran down one side of the shaft in the usual manner — highly risky to the climber rubbing shoulders with the up-and-down moving pump rods , and the iron rising water-main . |