Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] union " in BNC.
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| 1 | THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics . |
| 2 | Arnaldo Ferreira , a local leader of the Rural Workers ' Union in Eldorado do Carajas , Amazonia , was shot dead as he slept , four days after the discovery of Vinha 's body . |
| 3 | At Birlik ( Unity ) , a radical nationalist movement , they are forced to camp out at the decrepit Writers ' Union building , where rotting rubbish is piled high in the corridor . |
| 4 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
| 5 | Rodney Bickerstaffe , general secretary of the public employees ' union Nupe , said that local management of schools , giving schools control over their own budgets would mean less money for education . |
| 6 | The British actors ' union Equity had called for a halt to Australian TV actors appearing in British pantomimes . |
| 7 | He almost immediately led a breakaway of members into a Scottish Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union at a wage of £pound2 a week and made common cause with Alderman " Tommy " Lewis , who had already led a similar breakaway in Southampton to form the British Seafarers ' Union with which Shinwell 's union merged . |
| 8 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 9 | Its chairman , vice-chairman and secretary were appointed by the Controller of Shipping and each group of men sailors and firemen , engineers , deck officers and cooks and stewards — represented by their appropriate organisations , with the exception of local organisations and the British Seafarers ' Union , though the latter was given a " due proportion " of representatives on the passenger line panels of the Southampton and Glasgow District Boards . |
| 10 | In recognition of his work , he received an honorary MA from Cambridge in 1952 , a special Union gold medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union in 1959 , and the Stamford Raffles award of the Zoological Society of London in 1966 . |
| 11 | In 1951 he received the Godman Salvin medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union , and in 1957 was appointed CBE for services to ornithology . |
| 12 | The emblem of the British Ornithologists ' Union . |
| 13 | On April 4 the Mauritanian Workers ' Union ( UTM ) had demanded the introduction of a multiparty system , citing recent events in Mali [ see pp. 38083 ; 38134 ] . |
| 14 | The Mauritanian Workers ' Union ( MWU ) called a 48-hour strike for June 19-20 in protest at what it claimed was a deliberately manufactured deadlock in tripartite wage negotiations between the government , employers and the MWU . |
| 15 | The newly appointed Minister of Agriculture , Kumbirai Kangai , told the Commercial Farmers ' Union on July 16 that the government would reconsider plans to confiscate 13 commercial farms under the terms of the controversial Land Acquisition Act approved in March [ see p. 38804 ] . |
| 16 | The German farmers ' union , the DBV , maintained that " such a total transformation " of the system was " both wrong and disastrous " . |
| 17 | The second seminar will be held in July at National College and the third will be held at the Training Centre of the German Mineworkers ' Union in October . |
| 18 | This idea was expressed by an article published in one of the newspapers of the official students ' union , the Sindicato Español Universitario ( SEU ) in 1952 : |
| 19 | They felt that there were some fundamental problems within the education system on the islands , problems that the official teachers ' union were failing to redress . |
| 20 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 21 | The National Farmers ' Union Council backed the idea of licences , with penalties of up to £2,000 and the refusal of future permits for offenders . |
| 22 | The National Farmers ' Union proposed a licensing system to curb straw burning , after hundreds of complaints about smoke pollution at the end of the harvest . |
| 23 | The advice came from the president of the National Farmers ' Union , Mr Simon Gourlay , who discussed the matter with ministers . |
| 24 | Miss Melinda Appleby is environmental policy adviser to the National Farmers ' Union . |
| 25 | The National Farmers ' Union does n't like the idea of set aside . |
| 26 | The National Trust is supporting MEPs , MPs , and the National Farmers ' Union in fighting the directive . |
| 27 | Opposition is being led by an unusual alliance consisting of the Outdoor Writers ' Guild , which counts many leading walkers among its membership , the Country Landowners ' Association and the National Farmers ' Union , as well as the National Trust , the Countryside Commission and individual walkers . |
| 28 | In 1985 , the government set up a Nitrate Coordination Group ( NCG ) including DoE , the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and food ( MAFF ) , the Fertiliser Manufacturers ' Association and the National Farmers ' Union , but excluding consumers , environment or health groups . |
| 29 | The National Farmers ' Union has attacked it as ‘ unreasonable , unworkable and far too sweeping ’ . |
| 30 | The National Farmers ' Union welcomed the proposal while awaiting details of how much money farmers would get . |