Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] miner ' strike " 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 | What do you think of the miners ' strike ? was my first ever searching enquiry . |
| 3 | Another dramatic instance of historical déjà vu came during the miners ' strike , when it was reported that an attack had been made on the police station in Malby , South Yorkshire , scene of an anti-police riot a century earlier when the ‘ new police ’ first arrived there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was a particularly testing time at British Steel as we were still engaged in the major retrenchment exercise and we also had the very difficult task of keeping the steel mills operating during the miners ' strike . |
| 6 | Although they were all allocated to coal traffic in the East Midlands , their arrival coincided with the miners ' strike , and in truth BR only tolerated the construction of so many because the components were already on order . |
| 7 | Fortunately it coincided with the miners ' strike of 1984 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The courts have invented new laws , as in the new liabilities to restrain picketing during the miners ' strike . |