Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] miner ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Inside , the walls of the packed Pontllanfraith leisure centre were hung with a miners ' banner and posters from the 1987 campaign : outside the speech was broadcast via a video link to hundreds more standing spellbound in a field . |
| 4 | The government feared that the Triple Alliance , forged between the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , the National Union of Railwaymen ( NUR ) and the National Transport Workers ( NTW ) at the beginning of the war , whereby each union offered sympathetic strike support under certain circumstances , might be used to widen the dispute . |
| 5 | provided that there was the fullest consultation between the two bodies in respect of any developments which might occur , and no settlement would be reached without the miners ' consent . |
| 6 | INSPIRED BY THE MINERS ' RALLY |
| 7 | The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners ' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A second feature of public order policing highlighted by the miners ' strike was the use of èlite groups of police officers within each police force . |
| 10 | When confronted by the miners ' pay claim in 1973 , well in excess of the government 's stipulated maximum , Heath therefore reverted to the doctrine of the national mandate . |