Example sentences of "was then [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The team was then challenged to achieve the productivity and drainage objectives of the two remaining horizontal wells with a single well .
2 It was then planned to transport the food aid by lorry to some of the collective kitchens which the ICRC was operating throughout Somalia .
3 The blade was then polished to emphasise the bands of iron and steel .
4 The Financial Secretary was then asked to elucidate the impact of this on airline employees .
5 The teacher , with a white-coated scientist standing by him , was then instructed to teach the learner a series of linked words , and to punish him by delivering a shock every time he made a mistake .
6 An action was then brought to enforce the costs agreement .
7 Water was then added to loosen the mixture and rinsed away .
8 A second round of PCR was then used to generate the PCR products shown in Fig. 5 a and discussed in the text .
9 Hundreds of tests were done by all sorts , shapes , and sizes of student volunteers to establish the validity of the method , which was then used to assess the performance of a rucksack more accurately than ever before .
10 The paper tape was then used to input the data either to update the personnel files or to update payroll files prior to the weekly or monthly payroll sequences .
11 This was then used to modify the December climatology to approximate a doubled CO 2 climatology .
12 Although the knowledge sources in HARPY were designed separately , they were subsequently compiled into a unified directed graph representation which was then used to decode the utterance .
13 This meant that the stuff from the mine had to be reduced by stages to a coarse sand which was then processed to extract the copper ( and other minerals ) .
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