Example sentences of "[prep] the miner ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a particularly testing time at British Steel as we were still engaged in the major retrenchment exercise and we also had the very difficult task of keeping the steel mills operating during the miners ' strike . |
| 2 | There has been increased regulation of peaceful demonstrations since the Public Order Act 1986 and judicial decisions in cases involving picketing during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 , and increased police powers of detention without charge since the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 3 | Another dramatic instance of historical déjà vu came during the miners ' strike , when it was reported that an attack had been made on the police station in Malby , South Yorkshire , scene of an anti-police riot a century earlier when the ‘ new police ’ first arrived there . |
| 4 | The courts have invented new laws , as in the new liabilities to restrain picketing during the miners ' strike . |
| 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 | The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) . |
| 7 | Set up in 1972 , the NRC is not a permanent body and is only activated in times of crisis — as during the miners ' strike , from which two developments of particular importance emerged . |
| 8 | During the miners ' strike , for example it appears that the NRC could deploy some 13,000 police officers in a total of 416 PSUs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 12 | The unified response of the various police forces during the Miners ' Strike indicates the close level of cooperation between the various forces . |
| 13 | During the miners ' strike in 1984 , members of the South Wales area of the National Union of Mineworkers supported the strike call but , months later , a few of them returned to work under extensive protection from the police . |
| 14 | This was seen most recently during the miners ' strike in 1984–5 . |
| 15 | During the miners ' strike , for instance , it hosted dayschools and conferences for ordinary NUM members and miners ' wives groups , which allowed them to discuss the direction that events were taking . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | AS THE miners ' consortium running Monktonhall Colliery completed an eighth week without pay yesterday , it was discovered that a potential major investor was certain the pit was viable . |
| 19 | As the miners ' issue has developed , demands have been growing for Michael Heseltine 's resignation . |
| 20 | The Soviet president was able to end the strike of 1989 by posing as the miners ' ally . |
| 21 | The government feared that the Triple Alliance , forged between the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , the National Union of Railwaymen ( NUR ) and the National Transport Workers ( NTW ) at the beginning of the war , whereby each union offered sympathetic strike support under certain circumstances , might be used to widen the dispute . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 25 | Blue Ridge base … on a small patch of land owned by a member of the miners ' union , 40,000 people have called to offer their solidarity since last spring . |
| 26 | The local branches of the miners ' union set up soup kitchens , with much local help from butchers and shopkeepers . |
| 27 | The judge said he was satisfied BC would ‘ take note ’ of the miners ' concerns and the assurances given would be carried out . |
| 28 | Clearly , there were some changes and in some industries , most notably coal mining , national wage negotiations disappeared in November 1926 after the collapse of the miners ' resistance to the coal lock-out , to be replaced by district agreements . |
| 29 | Vincent spoke almost enviously of the miners ' darkness , and the chance it gave them to reclaim the light . |
| 30 | In her essay ‘ Implications of the Miners ' Strike ’ , she pointed out that : |