Example sentences of "of the [adj] miner ' " in BNC.
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1 | But it 's the riot squads that follow up to make the arrests and today , on the fields of battle around Orgreave , the police were involved in some of the most vicious hand-to-hand fighting of the entire miners ' dispute . |
2 | The nature of UK energy supply and demand by the end of the century is chiefly dependent on the longer-term policy implications of the 1984/5 miners ' strike . |
3 | Now I do n't know if you remember anything about the nine days of the General Strike , as opposed to the s sort of the whole miners ' strike in that year . |
4 | It has already lasted longer than the one two years ago , a tribute to the organisational powers of the independent miners ' union , which unites the various strike committees that sprang up in 1989 . |
5 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
6 | Yet in the 1980s the capacity of a determined government to ‘ sit out ’ forms of direct action — most obviously in the case of the 1985 miners ' strike — raises doubts even about this form of pressure-group action . |