Example sentences of "during the miner ' [noun sg] " 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 . |