Example sentences of "often [been] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The movements themselves are quite poetic and have often been likened to clouds floating in the sky .
2 Pattern recognition techniques that have most often been applied to script include spatial analysis methods ( where strokes are coded by a numbering system on a grid ) which are easy to implement but are only suitable for unconnected characters , and will be user dependent in order to keep the database of character codings small and accuracy high .
3 In other words , the title ‘ key settlement policy ’ has often been lent to programmes devised only on very narrow cost or administrative criteria .
4 Although the peasantry have not often been prompted to rebellion , they have played a major role in a national revolution in two Latin American countries , Mexico and Cuba .
5 Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) .
6 However , such favoured treatment has often been restricted to individuals from tribes linked to the government of the day .
7 This has often been attributed to changes in the characteristics of the population studied .
8 THE expression ‘ nosey parker ’ has often been linked to people of that name but the epithet 's origin actually lies with the Hyde Park rabbits and the Great Exhibition .
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