Example sentences of "often be [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 . |
9 | Significant breaks from the rules , or the opposite cases of their increasing formalization and rigidity , can often be related to periods of change or crisis in this general relationship . |
10 | Those that do escape , or are released by compassionate fishing captains and crew , are often caught again , and the same dolphins may often be chased to exhaustion and encircled with tuna nets many times each fishing season . |
11 | ‘ That is the most traumatic period for both the children and their parents , as the children can often be subjected to jibes and name-calling , ’ Dr Allen added . |
12 | It is a compulsive stop for cars and coaches , the large parking places on the roadside often being taxed to capacity , but despite the inevitable crowds , Eilean Donan should be on the itinerary of all who pass this way . |
13 | This was to meet a navy habit of sitting ‘ on the deck ’ when not otherwise engaged , the floor often being preferred to seats . |