Example sentences of "been in [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have thought they would have been in contact by now , ’ said secretary David Bowen . |
| 2 | For example , suppose that last year people expected a rate of inflation this year of 10 per cent ; if the actual rate turns out to be 16 per cent , the expectation will have been in error by 6 per cent . |
| 3 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 4 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 5 | Of course we 've been in touch by phone but I wanted to see how things were … |
| 6 | If he has n't been in touch by phone in a week , I 'll phone him . |
| 7 | The day when Britain 's independent power producers will be able to sell competitively and freely into a European grid as a matter of right would seem to be a long way off , despite the fact that this was all supposed to have been in place by the end of 1992 . |
| 8 | This particular model 's been in use by the RAF since 1958 . |
| 9 | A million copies are estimated to have been in circulation by 1524 . |
| 10 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |