Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] miner ' strike " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Geary explains the return to tactical violence in the 1 980s partly in terms of the police 's tougher and more sophisticated approach to public disorder induced by the inner-city disturbances of 1981 , though he attributes much of the unusually high level of violence in the miners ' strike to certain exceptional characteristics of the dispute : |
| 4 | The incident took place in the course of the miners ' strike , within several miles of four collieries , and the policeman in charge said that he had reason to fear that a breach of the peace would occur if the miners continued on their journey . |
| 5 | The same study reports pickets laying traps for tappers by directing them to wrong venues ( Coulter , Miller , and Walker , 1984 : 46 ) Although telephone-tapping during the miners ' strike was relatively well publicized , it is allegedly by no means a new phenomenon in the policing of industrial disputes . |
| 6 | On the question of the miners ' strike , one study refers to an episode in South Wales where the owner of a bus company was phoned by strikers who wanted to be taken to Derbyshire . |
| 7 | A major and long-running source of disorder since the conclusion of the miners ' strike was the industrial dispute with Mr Rupert Murdoch 's News International Group , centred on its new printing plant at Wapping in East London . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The women 's support groups and community organisation of the miners ' strike have given the union movement a new and wider perspective . |
| 10 | Let me put his mind at rest : any notion that the police were impartial disappeared with their behaviour in the miners ' strike . |
| 11 | The success of the policing operation during the miners ' strike was not due to new laws passed by Parliament to give the authorities greater powers . |
| 12 | Since 1964 , however , a number of changes , including the creation of new police liaison committees , the reorganisation of police authorities in the former Metropolitan Counties , and an enhanced role for the National Reporting Centre during the miners ' strike , have transformed the context of decision-making about policing . |
| 13 | There was only one really bitter outbreak of in-fighting , prompted by a story which Peter Walker had raked up from somewhere that gave an account of Margaret hoarding food during the miners ' strike . |
| 14 | Having chosen confrontation with the unions the Heath government went down to important defeats : the resolution of the miners ' strike by the Wilberforce Report in 1972 ; the official solicitor 's intervention to free the ‘ Pentonville Five ’ in the context of demands for a general strike , after which the Industrial Relations Act was virtually a dead letter . |
| 15 | Communist influence was strongest in the trade unions and amongst unemployed , and in the period of union militancy around the miners ' strike many of the anxieties about extremism were aired . |
| 16 | If anything , the problem after the miners ' strike was that , in a fast-moving sequence of events , the police had accumulated altogether too much power . |
| 17 | An oral history of the Miners ' Strike in a South Yorkshire pit village |
| 18 | The implied condemnation by Archbishop Runcie of the jingo spirit of the Falklands War , and the open , if confused , critique of the government 's handling of the miners ' strike by the Bishop of Durham , David Jenkins , caused a widening breach between government and the established Church . |
| 19 | From a massive deficit of £281mi1lion in 1984–5 , the year of the miners ' strike , the sector was able to recover quickly to break-even point and then achieve a handsome surplus of £69million in 1988–9 . |
| 20 | The number of strikers receiving supplementary benefit has always constituted a very insignificant proportion of the total number of persons on strike the lowest figure was 0.12 per cent in 1962 and the highest was 14.46 per cent in 1972 which was the year of the miners ' strike . |
| 21 | Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson . |
| 22 | It was in the middle of the miners ' strike , and feelings were running high . |
| 23 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |