Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the miners ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Communists had taken an active part in the 1926 General Strike and earned some support within the Miners ' Federation , most trade-union officials looked upon them as enemies trying to control the movement in the interests of a foreign organization . |
| 2 | Many of the most influential other union leaders , Thomas from the right wing , Bevin from the left-centre ( which was his position in those days ) , might have considerable doubt about the tactical skill of the miners ' leaders . |
| 3 | Unions continue to make a vigorous and robust contribution to the defence of working-class interests in a hostile society ; but , especially since the unsuccessful conclusion to the miners ' strike , there is no escaping the problems facing the movement . |
| 4 | There was a significant excess of subjects with acute on chronic gastritis in the miners ' group , and in addition , nearly three times as many miners had intestinal metaplasia in their gastric biopsy specimens . |
| 5 | The prospect of his receiving deputations as Prime Minister from the Miners ' Federation or the Triple Alliance , for example , is capable of causing alarm for the future relations between the Government and Labour — between moderate and less moderate opinion . |
| 6 | Mr. Raffan : Will my right Hon. Friend join me in congratulating the miners at Point of Air in my constituency for their dramatically increased productivity since the miners ' strike ? |
| 7 | One actor I became friendly with , Terry , had done only agit-prop before , touring the country in a van with a company called Vanguard in a music-hall pastiche about the miners ' strike of 1972 called Dig ! |
| 8 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 9 | One spin-off of the miners ' strike has been management 's disappointment ( see House of Commons Energy Committee , January 1988 ; comments by Sir Robert Haslam , Chairman of British Coal ) with pit deputies responsible for health and safety , who are members of NACODS . |
| 10 | An oral history of the Miners ' Strike in a South Yorkshire pit village |
| 11 | He used this argument not just to win the passive support of the miners ' wives and other dependants but also to mobilize their active participation . |
| 12 | Significant opposition from the Miners ' Union over high cost capacity cuts , new escalation of anti-nuclear hostilities , worsening relations with the Soviet bloc : any of these factors could significantly affect West Germany 's energy future . |