Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] miners " in BNC.
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| 1 | These advantages make it possible for the miners to produce a high output , of about 3 tonnes per man per shift . |
| 2 | On 29th October , 21 days after the accident , some of the miners thought they could hear the sound of moaning and worked with renewed vigour . |
| 3 | Even the Party daily , Scînteia had noted during one of Ceauşescu 's endless round of ‘ meet the workers ’ visits , that some of the miners ‘ did not hesitate ’ to put their ‘ point of view ’ to the General-Secretary . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There you 'd get a nice night along with some of the miners . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unfortunately again for the Conservatives , the stern measures taken by the government added to its unpopularity , not to that of the miners and , after a series of mistakes or misfortunes in the campaign , the Conservatives just lost . |
| 8 | Under the 1911 Coal Mines Act , pithead baths had to be provided if two-thirds of the miners voted for them . |
| 9 | I FEEL so incredibly sad about the miners who died and were hurt at Wearmouth Colliery . |
| 10 | — DURHAM CIU branch has organised a lecture on club management on June 10 at the Miners Hall in Durham . |
| 11 | The consortium leaders say the best they can hope for is getting back half their money but many of the miners look set to reject the offer . |
| 12 | Many of the miners look set to reject the offer . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ Many of the miners used their homes to secure loans . |
| 14 | The day shift was coming up into the twilight , miners with tired and miserable faces trooping out , their clothes as tattered as those of the miners in the Borinage . |
| 15 | Yeah in today 's press it says that er the government are going to subsidize now the coal industry something like seven hundred millions due to the miners ' kerfuffle , which is going to mean between five and ten pounds subsidy per ton . |
| 16 | In scenes reminiscent of the miners ' strike a decade ago , one policewoman was injured and 14 people were arrested . |
| 17 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 18 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
| 19 | His lips were parched and cracked and one of the miners who had some sandwiches rubbed the butter from the bread on to John 's lips to soothe them . |
| 20 | We also included some women workers from the canteen and a cousin of one of the miners . |
| 21 | One of the miners , Jim Hunter , said last night that it had given the men a tremendous boost . |
| 22 | That day he had three crucial meetings , one with the miners in the morning , a second with the owners in the early evening , and a third with the TUC after dinner . |
| 23 | She wondered if the sapphire strands of her pretence at unconcern were legible to the miners , then kicked herself for her stupidity . |
| 24 | Noel-Baker continued in his letter to Attlee : ‘ In the card vote , however , they [ the constituency party delegates ] were heavily outvoted by the Trade Union delegates , and in particular by the Miners ’ Federation and the Transport and General Workers . ’ |
| 25 | ( Waddington et al. , 1990 , show that in the Nottinghamshire community which they surveyed the immigrant and the ‘ local ’ miners were spatially segregated within the housing stock and that most of the miners who joined the strike were among the recent immigrants whose home lives were somewhat separate from those of the rest of the community . ) |
| 26 | And by 1874 , Richard Fynes , a historian sympathetic to the miners could write : ‘ Experience , however , proved that [ the lamps ] were the most deadly instrument ever devised in mining operations and were the cause of more sacrifice of human life than ever had occurred before . ’ |