Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] to the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another four mice were exposed to the same lamp with a glass cover on it . |
| 2 | Group directors and national directors were committed to the same goals . |
| 3 | Although not all newspapers were affected to the same degree , the trend towards more ‘ sensation ’ and more ‘ sport ’ suggested that the ‘ reader was expected to be intellectually more passive … attracted less by the prospect of greater wisdom than by that of ‘ Elevated ’ status , and he was now appealed to in a shrill capitalised format ’ . |
| 4 | But the girls were taken to the same nursery while their mothers rested . |
| 5 | It was only when lapidaries had discovered how to release the fire of diamonds by cutting them at angles devised to admit and reflect the maximum amount of light that the coloured varieties of transparent stones were subjected to the same treatment . |