Example sentences of "workers did " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dock strike failed because the transport workers did not have the strength to defend the labour monopoly enjoyed by registered dockers in a number of ports once the Government removed its statutory underpinning . |
| 2 | The Scarman Report commented on the turnover of staff in the mail order department in 1976 : ‘ many of the immigrant workers did not stay for very long : the threat of dismissal must have been an anxiety for many in the workforce . |
| 3 | In the south , however , foreign workers did present a narrower spectrum , and those from the more disadvantaged countries were prominent . |
| 4 | Cash 's workers did not have to go out to the sound of the factory bell or whistle , but simply went upstairs from home to workshop , and thus kept a little of the independence they prized . |
| 5 | The number of community psychiatric nurses in Newham was less than half that of Ipswich , and the hospital social workers did not intervene in cases where a client had not been an inpatient . |
| 6 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 7 | This militancy on the part of the workers did not spring from nowhere . |
| 8 | Raybestos made the factory available for reopening the following Monday , and , though no pickets were placed , the workers did not come into work . |
| 9 | Prior to the implementation of state pension schemes at the turn of this century , older workers did not retire . |
| 10 | A final reason providing grounds upon which to criticise the programme was that the network of field workers did not cover all of the rural population of Bangladesh . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the anti-lesbianism from our organizations and from heterosexual workers did not abate . |
| 12 | Hence , although older workers did not contribute a large proportion of the work-force , their placing in the economy and the nature of the post-war economic problem made contemporary concern about them understandable . |
| 13 | Put another way , it has seemed that the primary concern addressed in the Beckford ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 ) , Carlile ( London Borough of Greenwich , 1987 ) and Henry ( London Borough of Lambeth , 1987 ) reports was that social workers did too little too late , while the primary concern addressed in the Cleveland report ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) was that social workers did too much too soon . |
| 14 | Put another way , it has seemed that the primary concern addressed in the Beckford ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 ) , Carlile ( London Borough of Greenwich , 1987 ) and Henry ( London Borough of Lambeth , 1987 ) reports was that social workers did too little too late , while the primary concern addressed in the Cleveland report ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) was that social workers did too much too soon . |
| 15 | Although there are some dissenters , it seems to be accepted that a lifetime of attachment to one company together with seniority promotions and group bonus schemes for all workers did not become a common practice until the 1950s . |
| 16 | The survivors I have interviewed mostly remembered going straight on to piece-work and staying there , although in larger offices , like Clark 's , some experienced Women workers did become stab hands . |
| 17 | 91% of their sample of clerical workers did not exercise any control over how they worked , they simply followed a set of routines without using their initiative . |
| 18 | For example , the dismissal of temporary workers did not require the same consultations or negotiations to be opened with the trade unions as would be necessary if redundancies amongst the regular labour force were proposed . |
| 19 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
| 20 | Some workers did , however , appear to respond as the substitution effect predicted . |
| 21 | Inflation reached levels beyond the control of the authorities , and mines and bakeries were among the few concerns continuing to operate , as workers did not arrive to work or raw materials were lacking . |
| 22 | Workers did not choose these employments . |
| 23 | And in case some of the workers did not appreciate the Minister 's subtle reference to underbidder Hyundai , Michael Fallon , Conservative candidate for Darlington , explained . |
| 24 | But hundreds of shoppers and workers did manage to find a vantage point . |
| 25 | And as I say er seven people seven workers did when they all that trouble started the bread . |
| 26 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 27 | The demonstrators knew something the demolition workers did n't . |