Example sentences of "[art] british [noun] ' union " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British actors ' union Equity had called for a halt to Australian TV actors appearing in British pantomimes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In 1951 he received the Godman Salvin medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union , and in 1957 was appointed CBE for services to ornithology . |
| 7 | The emblem of the British Ornithologists ' Union . |