Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] were [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Another group of subjects were subjected to REM or Stage 4 sleep deprivation for three nights , and then deprived of sleep altogether for one night , again allowing a comparison of the effects of a four-day cumulation of loss of Stage 4 sleep with REM sleep .
2 The 1977 Royal Commission on the Press found that for a quality newspaper , production costs accounted for 31% of total costs ; the next largest group of costs were attributed to newsprint and ink .
3 A mean of two percent of patients were returned to theatre across the northern region after T U R P and this ranged from zero to seven point five percent .
4 However grand the latter might be , those who bought the lower order of tickets were condemned to tin huts at the end of the platforms where the sole facility might be a single stand-pipe tap .
5 All organisations working for the welfare of children were invited to affiliate .
6 In the early 1890s a growing proportion of revolutionaries were converted to Marxism .
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