Example sentences of "and [noun] have been [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 Vein deposits in Dinantian limestones and sandstones have been exploited in the Northern and Southern Pennine orefields for a total production exceeding 2 million tonnes .
2 When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them .
3 Timber houses of several different periods and cultures have been reconstructed in various experiments , leading to a much better understanding of how such buildings were originally built .
4 Pack sizes and colours extend the choice and labels and literature have been produced in eight languages , from English to Icelandic .
5 Since the early 1980s the army 's strength and budget have been cut in half .
6 In the interim , however , a number of schemes have been devised in which instabilities and chaos have been predicted in experimentally realisable systems .
7 The past eight years has seen a steady and clever manipulation of the so-called thinking minority : the wheezes and schemes of cheeky pop entrepreneurs like Morley and McLaren have been championed in the rock press and elsewhere as a perfect parallel to the upwardly mobile mentality of the calculator and computer generation , the complete full circle from sixties hippiedom .
8 " Mouses making buns , " Deborah had said the afternoon before when flour and raisins had been discovered in a corner .
9 Not realising that the documents on discharge and assessment had been produced in a hurry to meet the government 's suddenly imposed deadline of 31 December , he criticised the two weeks he had been given to consult his 200 consultant colleagues .
10 A considerable amount of time and money has been spent in pursuing the study of river basin dynamics .
11 By the late 1940s there was a wider range of prepackaged grocery lines available , and improvements had been made in the quality of packaging .
12 MANY ULSTER PUBS , INNS AND CLUBS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN ORDER TO DIVERT THEIR BUSINESS TO ILLEGAL DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS .
13 Various gastrointestinal hormones such as glucagon and calcitonin have been investigated in studies on the prevention of ERCP induced pancreatitis .
14 Gas Turbine Fuel Systems enjoyed continued success , thanks to growth in our traditional market and investment has been made in line with this growth .
15 The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years .
16 Furthermore , fibrosis and cirrhosis have been produced in the baboon model of alcoholic liver disease in animals fed diets purportedly high in nutritional value , although this has been disputed .
17 A joint communiqué issued on May 19 said that the talks between Jiang and Gorbachev had been held in a " friendly , frank and businesslike atmosphere " and had covered " the whole range of Soviet-Chinese relations " .
18 Mrs McMullen 's face and neck had been covered in a thick layer of mud and Dr Wayte suggested that an attacker had sat astride her , possibly grabbing soil and pushing it along the body and into her mouth .
19 For example oestrogen and trinitrin have been administered in a patch applied to the skin .
20 The advantages of attending a unit of this kind or somewhere that gives similar solidarity and guidance has been shown in a study of schoolgirl mothers .
21 He was taken to a private prison , built to his own design and whose security arrangements and guards had been vetted in advance by the cartel , situated near to his home town of Envigado , now a suburb of the city of Medellín .
22 The material occurs in the Old World near Lake Baikal and traces have been noted in the Pamirs , but the only source known to have been exploited in antiquity is that visited by Marco Polo in Badakhshan , north-east Afghanistan ( fig. 25 ) .
23 Lacking the direct accountability mechanisms and the power to engage with LDDC , local authorities and communities have been neglected in favour of private sector interests .
24 Autumn arrival has been noted as early as 10 July , but usually starts in late October , and passage has been noted in November .
25 By the end of May more than 40 local government officials , politicians and businessmen had been arrested in Milan and nearby towns as the investigation of local government corruption continued .
26 The great bulk of German artillery and manpower had been assembled in the area due north of Verdun between the River Meuse and the Woevre , a boggy plain .
27 A good deal of time and intelligence has been invested in the exposure of racism and the horrific results on its objects .
28 Manometry , electromyography , and scintiscanning have been used in adults in the investigation of colon motility but only recently have these been extended to the study of paediatric patients .
29 Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers .
30 I am afraid Nader 's wife and child have been kidnapped in England . ’
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