Example sentences of "by [art] miners " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In another scavenging operation , a small company called Medway Tin scours the countryside for dumps left by the miners of old . |
| 3 | The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners ' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use . |
| 4 | Much of the blame must be borne by the miners themselves . |
| 5 | The raiders ' principal memory , however , is the smell of Eau de Cologne drunk by the miners who were allowed no spirits on the island . |
| 6 | INSPIRED BY THE MINERS ' RALLY |
| 7 | Deputations of pit brow lasses visited Parliament in the 1880s and in 1911 during campaigns by the miners and some coal owners to exclude them from the collieries . |
| 8 | After the New Year , as the hardship faced by the miners , their families and their communities grew greater , so the drift back to work gathered pace . |
| 9 | Thus the individualist ethos which characterized the social relations at the workplace in the Dukeries was as much a survival mechanism developed by the miners for the competitive milieu underground as it was imposed by the employers . |
| 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 . |
| 11 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |
| 12 | Gedling colliery in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) closed a week ago after a four-year battle by the miners to make it successful . |
| 13 | In his inaugural address Iliescu referred to the " excesses " committed by the miners , but remained unapologetic about his decision to call them in . |
| 14 | However , it found that funds donated by miners in East Germany , Hungary and the Soviet Union were highly likely to have contributed to a trust held on behalf of the NUM by the Miners ' Trade Union International , a forerunner of the Paris-based International Miners ' Organization ( IMO — of which Scargill was president ) , and that the NUM had not received any benefit from this trust , although the IMO had received " substantial advantages " at the NUM 's expense . |
| 15 | The ending of the strike depended on acceptance of the agreement by the miners on Jan. 4 . |
| 16 | Noel-Baker continued in his letter to Attlee : ‘ In the card vote , however , they [ the constituency party delegates ] were heavily outvoted by the Trade Union delegates , and in particular by the Miners ’ Federation and the Transport and General Workers . ’ |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher has rightly chosen to focus upon improvement here in her third term , but she is meeting an opposition to change that is more wily than the one she was offered by the miners . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All three major rail unions are affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour party , and the NUR in particular has a long tradition of sponsoring Labour MPs ( Bagwell 1982 : ch. 12 ) , ‘ equalled only by the miners ’ union' ( Eaton and Gill 1981 : 41 ) . |