Example sentences of "the miner ' [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The miners ' welfare club put on concerts — their only social entertainment — and provides space for a mothers ' and toddlers ' group where there is no nursery . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The miners ' strike action had begun with patchily supported one-day strikes in the Donbass , Vorkuta and Karaganda coalfields on March 1 , and in the Kuzbass coalfield on March 4 . |
| 4 | A fiver a ton subsidy Tarzan recommended , and we heard yesterday where he was getting the fiver a ton from , the miners ' pension fund . |
| 5 | No one can break into the miners ' housing area without ‘ security clearance ’ at the gate by the union guards … the orders from management are completely disregarded and the directions from union leaders are kept to the letter … |
| 6 | Under the agreement the government would help the coal industry to reduce its indebtedness and provide more funds for restructuring , although it was stressed that the miners ' wage demands , such as ending pay differentials between pits , had not been conceded . |
| 7 | Thus the strike was portrayed by Scargill as both industrial and political , as a means of destroying Thatcherism as well as advancing the miners ' job interests . |
| 8 | In the miners ' dispute Lord Wilberforce became deeply enmeshed in job evaluation , the social and physical conditions in the pits and , above all , the need to produce a settlement under which the miners would go back to work . |
| 9 | 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 . |