Example sentences of "belong to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We already support over 70 children who belong to the families we visit . |
| 2 | I think we have to remember at all times that we belong to a profession in which there can not be qualifications . |
| 3 | Some of these programs belong to the Shareware scheme which means that they can be used and evaluated for a few weeks , and you pay the registration fee only if you continue to use them . |
| 4 | As such they belong to a distinct and long-standing tradition , that of the ‘ mères ’ . |
| 5 | They belong to the huge daisy family ( Compositae ) , and are sometimes still listed under the dreadfully tongue-twisting name of Dimorphotheca . |
| 6 | I can say that because I now belong to them both . |
| 7 | As he said of it much later , ‘ We who belong to the city have never left the Church . |
| 8 | The dances of the four Lovers belong to both worlds . |
| 9 | They must also be performed and co-ordinated with the occupational gestures that belong to the location and that are employed by the particular inhabitants whose story , with its moods , emotions and actions , is being told . |
| 10 | Resistors listed all belong to a specific tolerance set . |
| 11 | Both belong to what Geoffrey Thurley diagnosed as the sealed world of French rationalism ; the difficulty of convincingly transplanting such forms of intellectual discourse from a French to an English context remains formidable . |
| 12 | He now lives in three homes in Kenya : they belong to people who think of themselves , he says , as his sons . |
| 13 | I do , however , keep giving the actors directions which belong to a five-week rehearsal period and then have to tell them to forget what I 've just said . |
| 14 | Calm waters only belong to stagnant pools , and there is nothing stagnant about the new Conservative Britain . ’ |
| 15 | I belong to the Conservative party , ’ said Sandra Gilfillan from Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 16 | He needs to think of how we are to find the right ministers , men and women — to let people know that there is a vocation called holy orders , of ‘ unique difficulty and unique happiness ’ ; the variety of ministers , deaconesses , teachers in schools , lay preachers , monks and nuns and friars who belong to ‘ the praying heart of the Church ’ , without which its mission would not have the power of God within it . |
| 17 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 18 | Maggie and Fenna belong to each other . |
| 19 | NRA Southern region official Dr Binny Buckley said : ‘ There are two freehold properties which own the land but the fishing rights actually belong to us . |
| 20 | Their religious pictures , she writes , ‘ belong to an archaic world [ … $ who viewed the religious realm as something ‘ different ’ from mundane reality . ' |
| 21 | When he has inspired sympathetic coverage , the results tend to be not so much an exposition of Gironella 's achievements but belong to that particular branch of literature which uses works of art as a starting point for literary excursus . |
| 22 | These work-places belong to two main types of firms — largish firms in traditionally low wage industries such as laundries or electrical component factories or sweet factories , or sweat-shops — where the employer may be a family firm or a self-made man , fiercely anti-union , determined to compete with bigger firms if necessary , by exploiting his workers . |
| 23 | At five they are then pushed into an environment where the language is new , the rules incomprehensible and where , unless it is a predominantly Asian area , they are made to realise that they belong to a special category — Asian . |
| 24 | Difficult for bread-and-butter manufacturers , never mind the makers of cars so far off the scale ( up to £80,000 for the 600SEL Merc and twice that for the Bentley ) that by any rational thinking they belong to a different era altogether — one without recession , a war just over and all the current uncertainties . |
| 25 | Cucumbers and marrows belong to the same family ; melons come in four basic types : |
| 26 | After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ ) |
| 27 | The two Germanys belong to different military blocs . ’ |
| 28 | The commandos , who belong to a 55-strong group of US military advisers in El Salvador , had held out on the sixth floor of the annexe during the siege .. |
| 29 | Nearly 50 Indian software producers belong to the Engineering Export Promotion Council which is making vigorous efforts to find new markets , particularly in East Asia and Europe . |
| 30 | THIS expanded network of popular committees and institutions making up the Unified leadership is infused by tens of thousands of activists who belong to , or identify with , the different factions of the PLO . |