Example sentences of "were then [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On Dec. 27 Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi was removed from the chairmanship of five state committees which were then transferred to the jurisdiction of the government .
2 The reports were then sent to the Dominion and Indian governments .
3 The police were then called to the house and found two people tied up in a back bedroom .
4 These were then dedicated to the king and to all past kings in the ritual of royal ancestors , followed by the second reversion to the priests .
5 Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men .
6 The viscera were then returned to the cavity together with a substantial quantity of camphor , nitre and resin .
7 Several premises were then brought to the notice of the College .
8 These loaded special wagons were then taken to the Underframe Machine Shop ( formerly the Old Lifting Shop ) , which contained the following machinery : multispindle drills , beam-end milling machines , shears , saws , straightening machines , oxy-acetylene burners , punches , and an overhead crane , where the material was machined as necessary .
9 One hundred millilitre samples of simulated gastric juice ( USP formulation ) were then added to the test meal , the mixture was stirred thoroughly , and the resultant pH measured when it had stabilised after 10 minutes .
10 Five ml of cell free plasma were then added to the cell suspension and centrifuged at 100 g for 5 minutes .
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