Example sentences of "[prep] [art] miners ' [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was still interested in politics , and for a while a fairly active member of the Labour party , especially during the miners ' strike when he and Solowka canvassed on their behalf . |
| 2 | The judge said he was satisfied BC would ‘ take note ’ of the miners ' concerns and the assurances given would be carried out . |
| 3 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 4 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 5 | The ILP founder , Keir Hardie , although a miner , had not entered parliament as the nominee of the Miners ' Federation and most ILP Members were nominated by local Party branches or Trades Councils rather than through the national trade unions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Music is meant to be about escapism , not dreary boring subjects like the miners ' strike and animal rights . |
| 8 | Heath 's revived corporatism in the early 1970s crumpled with the miners ' strikes and the OPEC price explosion , while the Labour government of the late 1970s was able only to breathe intermittent life into a system of corporate direction which powerful producer-groups and multinational companies in the so-called ‘ meso-economy ’ were both undermining . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |
| 12 | Jimmy Knapp , left-wing leader of the National union of Railwaymen believes that his members had a ‘ genuine ’ interest in the miners ' strike because pit closures would mean fewer coal trains . |
| 13 | The Labour Party conference defeated Communist affiliation at the request of the National Executive and with the approval of most union officials other than some in the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 14 | But while you were still a miner did you have any trouble being in the miners ' association when the Spencer Union was ? |
| 15 | Most nights I go to the miners ' welfare or a pub , or a club . |
| 16 | They left Verdeţ unsure about how Ceauşescu would react to the miners ' insistence that he himself should come . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it is a tribute to the miners ' ingenuity and perseverance that 19 of the 21 mines laid were successfully detonated . |