Example sentences of "the [noun] miner ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a compromise , the Nottinghamshire Miners ' Association and the owners agreed to a modified piece-rate system for each coalface , but nevertheless many owners retained the butty system , and it was revived when the Dukeries field was opened . |
| 2 | Determined to maintain these isolated villages as functional units separate from contaminating ideologies such as those purveyed by the Labour party and the Nottinghamshire Miners ' Association , the companies stressed the unity of the model villages . |
| 3 | The NUM 's predecessor ( like the NUM itself ) was a federation of local miners ’ unions — The Miners ' Federation of Great Britain ( MFGB ) — with which the Nottinghamshire Miners ' Association ( NMA ) had been federated since 1888 . |
| 4 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |
| 5 | We still maintained the remnants of the Notts Miners ' Association . |
| 6 | COHSE members coming out on strike because of their refusal to take a little boy into the theatre for an operation , pin-ups being removed from the Yorkshire miners ' newspaper , painkillers being laced with poison in the US , John Nott walking out on Robin Day in front of the TV cameras , Helmut Kohl taking over from ( crash ) Helmut Schmidt and public service pay rises being kept down to 3 ½ per cent , every single event being , in some eyes , a disaster . |
| 7 | The unexpected support came on the day miners ' unions , after receiving assurances , agreed to call off a High Court bid to force British Coal to re-open and work 10 pits earmarked for early closure . |
| 8 | Paradoxically the introduction of the state pension seems to have ended independent activity by workers ' organizations , with even the Durham miners ' scheme fading out between the wars . |
| 9 | Plainly , events such as the Durham Miners ' Gala , which has been held for decades fall within the rubric . |
| 10 | He became a friend of Jack Lawson ( Lord Lawson ) who was a faithful Methodist , and Sam Watson the Durham miners ' leader , whom he came to know intimately . |
| 11 | Individual trade unions also reflected this continuous decline throughout the 1920s and early 1930s ; the coal miners ' union declined from 936,653 members in 1921 to 885,789 in 1925 and to 554,015 in 1932 while , for the same dates , respectively , trade union membership in the railway unions fell from 560,875 to 528,764 and 399,184.46 There also appears to have been no let up in the determination to forge a more effective industrial alliance — even though the General Council stopped short of another general strike . |
| 12 | Up to 1,500 Indians may have died over the last two years as a result of the gold miners ' presence on their land . |
| 13 | It followed a federal court decision in Brasília , the Brazilian capital , on Oct. 20 , 1989 , that the gold miners ' presence was illegal . |