Example sentences of "miners ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the miners ' sense of anger at the prolonged destruction of their industry is also worthy of note . |
| 2 | It has also become the focus of protest for miners ' support groups all over Lancashire and further afield , as demonstrated by the early arrival of three young members of Lancaster Miners ' Support Group in a transit van . |
| 3 | It has also become the focus of protest for miners ' support groups all over Lancashire and further afield , as demonstrated by the early arrival of three young members of Lancaster Miners ' Support Group in a transit van . |
| 4 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
| 5 | For the employers , that stake in personal power also provided , at no cost , the work that made miners ' work possible . |
| 6 | A 32-day strike in the Karaganda coal fields involving 20,000 miners ended on June 6 with agreement that 15 per cent of production would in future become the property of miners ' work collectives . |
| 7 | The miners ' houses , built in the 1920s by tin baron Simon Patiño , were abandoned and rapidly becoming derelict . |
| 8 | In her essay ‘ Implications of the Miners ' Strike ’ , she pointed out that : |
| 9 | The miners ' strike marks a set-back for those who argue that police and politics do n't mix … for the discussions generated will serve to accelerate the politicisation of the police … [ and ] has highlighted the presence of ACPO and the NRC [ the co-ordinating National Reporting Centre ] , as bodies , set up without the authority of Parliament , of apparently unquantified and unaccountable power . |
| 10 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
| 11 | From a massive deficit of £281mi1lion in 1984–5 , the year of the miners ' strike , the sector was able to recover quickly to break-even point and then achieve a handsome surplus of £69million in 1988–9 . |
| 12 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 13 | Although they were all allocated to coal traffic in the East Midlands , their arrival coincided with the miners ' strike , and in truth BR only tolerated the construction of so many because the components were already on order . |
| 14 | The miners ' strike in July showed how quickly workers ' discontent can erupt , take organised and radical form , and acquire leaders . |
| 15 | Jimmy Knapp , left-wing leader of the National union of Railwaymen believes that his members had a ‘ genuine ’ interest in the miners ' strike because pit closures would mean fewer coal trains . |
| 16 | The implied condemnation by Archbishop Runcie of the jingo spirit of the Falklands War , and the open , if confused , critique of the government 's handling of the miners ' strike by the Bishop of Durham , David Jenkins , caused a widening breach between government and the established Church . |
| 17 | Some bishops , notably Jenkins of Durham , Sheppard of Liverpool , and Hapgood of York , have spoken out about deprivation in the inner cities , the miners ' strike , and the need for government to show a greater compassion for , and understanding of , the poor . |
| 18 | She remembered a little of the acrimony , of the mounting bitterness within the house , of their winter of discontent , which was so much part of and not part of the winter outside , and the miners ' strike . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This arrangement means there is no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a State of Emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 21 | This discreet arrangement means , among other things , that there was no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a state of emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 22 | Let me put his mind at rest : any notion that the police were impartial disappeared with their behaviour in the miners ' strike . |
| 23 | That message was later underlined in the 1984–5 miners ' strike . |
| 24 | When Mrs Thatcher decided to break the miners ' strike , if need be by force , there was no doubt where I stood ; or at the time of the Falklands , or the Suez operation against the Egyptian dictator , Colonel Nasser : foursquare behind the Tories . |
| 25 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 26 | What is also clear is that the miners ' strike left deep ideological scars . |
| 27 | When a handful of persistent pickets parked a caravan at the Hinkley entrance during the long drawn out miners ' strike , they got precious little support . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The miners ' strike failed to evolve into a veritable civil war ( although , beneath the veneer of the tabloid media , it was getting pretty close ) and a wave of pessimism was matched only by the resolve of the hardline few . |
| 30 | Music is meant to be about escapism , not dreary boring subjects like the miners ' strike and animal rights . |