Example sentences of "have also [been] a " in BNC.

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1 There has also been a significant decline in the cult of the saints , and many of the practices which characterized the devotional revolution of the mid-nineteenth century .
2 And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head .
3 There is an analogy here with working-class culture , black and white , where masculinity has also been a source of resistance , but once again at the expense of ratifying a larger exploitative framework for men as well as women .
4 There has also been a change in mood about nationalization .
5 He has also been a non-executive chairman of Cable $ Wireless , chairman of the North American Advisor ) , Group , chairman of the Man-made Fibre Producers Committee and chairman of the European Synthetic Fibre Manufacturers .
6 ‘ There has also been a deliberate policy to exclude the committee from important decisions to license new veterinary drugs . ’
7 He has also been a licensed gill-netter himself .
8 There has also been a high turnover of state Senate leaders , House speakers and even local newspaper publishers .
9 ‘ Israel has fled before the Philistines , and there has also been a great slaughter among the people ; your two sons also , Hophni and Phinehas , are dead , and the ark of God has been captured . ’
10 There has also been a great deal of adulation which is perhaps even more harmful for it generates mysticism .
11 This has also been a feature of the East African revival and was probably also present in Watchman Nee 's church .
12 There has also been a decline throughout the decade in spending on teacher training , though the recently initiated Self Help Action Programme in Education ( SHAPE ) project may increase the effectiveness of in-service training .
13 There has also been a tendency to impose new curricula and policies without sufficient preparation of teachers and administrators .
14 Since the mid-1980s , there has also been a sharp growth in the numbers of foreign aid donors giving various kinds of scholarships , either for study abroad or training in South Africa .
15 There has also been a considerable degree of unnecessary subsidy .
16 But the process has also been a more subtle one , as new initiatives have apparently been tacked on to existing local government .
17 There has also been a flurry of activity on ‘ degraded-core ’ phenomena .
18 The programming side of IT has also been a weakly child .
19 There has also been a miraculous rise of the Liberals from the ashes — they may just squeak past 5 per cent themselves .
20 Phylloxera is generally considered to be the greatest disaster in French viticultural history , but in some respects it has also been a blessing .
21 There has also been a change in the holiday habits of the Madeirans themselves , who used to retire to their summer villas at Monte or Santo da Serra to escape the heat or flocked to the rocky shoreline around Funchal to bathe every day .
22 So the work remains , in some sense , circular : but what is more important to our understanding of the poem , as opposed to the misadventures of the poet , is that there has also been a change of genre .
23 There has also been a big run on nostalgia toys this year , says Philip Goodall , who runs three large toy shops in Oxfordshire .
24 The single company PEP , which was introduced on 1 January this year , has also been a success .
25 There has also been a failure to update regulations in some jurisdictions , in line with modern requirements .
26 Enlightenment man has undoubtedly been a man of power , but he has also been a barbarian .
27 There has also been a strong movement to introduce the craft of writing into the curriculum , so pupils can create their own meanings in a variety of forms .
28 There has also been a high incidence of murder following rape.Allegations have to be handled with care , but there is clear evidence that rape camps have been set up .
29 There has also been a certain amount of experimental work by linguists and psychologists which supports the hypothesis that for current speakers of English , generic masculines are interpreted as masculine rather than generic — though it has to be said the results of this work are not entirely clear-cut , except perhaps in the case of generic man .
30 It was n't always so ; in its time , Reading has also been a hippy haven , a pub rock paddock , a new wave Jamboree and the worst heavy metal headbangers ' ball imaginable .
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