Example sentences of "belongs to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Argentina , according to Naipaul 's journalism , such an act belongs to the fantasies of machismo : here , at the end of the world , and of Ahmed 's tether , it bears the mark of defeat . |
| 2 | This jealousy may be felt to be like Othello 's in having more to do with difference of race , and with the jealousies of race , than the jealous man , or than the work he belongs to , seems disposed to state . |
| 3 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 4 | Any such attempt has to look closely at their chastened but ultimately unchastenable hero , at his hostility , at his stylistic authority and command of the books he belongs to . |
| 5 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 6 | Throughout , Patrick is both the ‘ King of the World ’ that he wants to be — Glasgow belongs to him — and an abject sinner . |
| 7 | Unable to get rid of the feeling that the glass belongs to another time , another person . |
| 8 | ‘ But — it belongs to the Church . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It belongs to the Customs and Excise mob , ’ she told me . |
| 10 | ‘ It belongs to my flatmate 's parents , ’ she said , by way of an apology as she showed me around . |
| 11 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 12 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 13 | Elsewhere reference has been made to the difference between Spanish style and flamenco style ( see page 59 ) which belongs to the Spanish gipsies from whom has also developed what is known as gipsy character dance . |
| 14 | It is important to note that these ballets were created by MacMillan whose aim has been to convince audiences that dance in ballet belongs to the reality of life and to show how life can be manipulated . |
| 15 | The letter to Katkov belongs to the autumn of 1865 . |
| 16 | This distinction should be preserved ( even though the Russian verb is not quite square with the English ) , since it belongs to the novel 's overall life-against-logic argument : in theory the student would kill her , but in fact he wo n't . |
| 17 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 18 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 19 | He belongs to a paper society which goes through the motions of life , in the air , notionally . |
| 20 | Nevertheless Stavrogin does contemplate suicide , and the notebook entry ‘ to be or not to be ’ bears the date 16 August , so it belongs to the summer when the ‘ tendentious ’ political story gets tugged back into great-sinner orbit , growing physically and imaginatively larger and more formidable all the time . |
| 21 | This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park . |
| 22 | There is no twentieth-century master who belongs to the second half of this century . |
| 23 | Mr Mandela belongs to the royal family of the Tembu tribe . |
| 24 | The business community regognises him as ‘ one of us ’ , and he belongs to the generation which will be in its prime in 1997 . |
| 25 | But the SPD , instead of exuding the sort of assurance suggesting that the general election in December next year belongs to it , struggles to hide its edginess . |
| 26 | It professes no particular architectural creed ; it belongs to no recognisable school of design . |
| 27 | ‘ Rivalry within the PDPA is a phenomenon that more or less belongs to the past , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Maitre Binoche , the auctioneer , says the picture belongs to a Swedish collector who is also a collector of contemporary paintings . |
| 29 | But Mr Bullock said : ‘ I can tell you that the name belongs to us . ’ |
| 30 | The house now belongs to a buxom blonde from Lyon , wife of a driving instructor . |