Example sentences of "and [to-vb] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1950s , anti-Communism and the ideology of the nuclear family combined to put women back in the kitchen and to launch a series of prosecutions of gay men which amounted to mass persecution . |
| 2 | The first step is to meet the Bank , to identify our members ' depth of feeling on the Labour Court decision and to explore a means of peacefully resolving the issue . |
| 3 | In what follows I am going to use a general procedure for reading texts to examine specific features of racist discourse to be found in ‘ Fighting talk ’ and ‘ The last laugh ’ and to suggest a series of questions which they raise as an agenda for further research and debate . |
| 4 | They wanted to restore farming , horticulture and forestry , and to develop a series of secondary industries : sawmilling , building , textiles and cider-making . |
| 5 | Throughout the study subjects were asked to complete at least one seven point home blood glucose monitoring profile a week and to collect a series of capillary blood samples simultaneously with the home monitoring profile at least once a fortnight . |
| 6 | The intention of this project was to review the existing literature and to make a series of pre-pilot studies in order to provide the material for a conspectus of the subject . |