Example sentences of "the miner ' [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The miners ' capricious commitment , or lack of it , to the baths and canteens — the communal demands — can be treated as a classic case of patriarchal priorities in class struggle . |
2 | By and large it performed well during the miners ' industrial action of 1973–4 and the concurrent ‘ go-slows ’ in the electricity-supply industry , as David Howell recalls : |
3 | We have had many meetings on that , and the miners ' parliamentary group has met the chairman of British Coal several times . |
4 | Repeating images — the miners ' stolid anger , Frankie 's smirking leatherware ; juxtaposed stereotypes — pickets as hooligans , gays lounging promiscuously in the night . |
5 | Back there somewhere she could hear the miners ' grim shouts ; they were closer in the mahogany night . |
6 | The very argument that had supported the miners ' own rise in the wages league during the 1970s — that the work was difficult and dangerous — counted against an egalitarian measurement of women 's skills . |