Example sentences of "by the miner [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When confronted by the miners ' pay claim in 1973 , well in excess of the government 's stipulated maximum , Heath therefore reverted to the doctrine of the national mandate . |
| 2 | The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners ' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use . |
| 3 | INSPIRED BY THE MINERS ' RALLY |
| 4 | A second feature of public order policing highlighted by the miners ' strike was the use of èlite groups of police officers within each police force . |
| 5 | These objectives , however , proved vulnerable to external events , especially the disruption caused by the miners ' strike of 1984–5 , and the government was forced to revise them downwards . |
| 6 | However , it found that funds donated by miners in East Germany , Hungary and the Soviet Union were highly likely to have contributed to a trust held on behalf of the NUM by the Miners ' Trade Union International , a forerunner of the Paris-based International Miners ' Organization ( IMO — of which Scargill was president ) , and that the NUM had not received any benefit from this trust , although the IMO had received " substantial advantages " at the NUM 's expense . |