Example sentences of "[noun] belonged to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is evident that the tourist whom railway companies , hotels and guide-books had in mind belonged to the comfortably-off middle classes . |
| 2 | Since Gregory belonged to the senatorial aristocracy , it might have been assumed that he would accept its literary traditions . |
| 3 | That legitimacy belonged to the spiritual jurisdiction could not really be contested by lay powers because no one could dispute the Church 's power over marriage . |
| 4 | The Deacons belonged to the Sandemanian church , whose most famous member , Michael Faraday [ q.v. ] , took an interest in their son . |
| 5 | It has become increasingly apparent that Thomson belonged to the American experimental tradition . |
| 6 | The general view , extending to some members of the RCM , held that refugees belonged to the lower orders , and that no amount of hard work or intellectual promise on their part could alter their self-evident assumption . |
| 7 | Croatia : More than 11 per cent of Croatia 's population belonged to the Serbian minority , living mainly in Krajina , which remained economically underdeveloped and vulnerable to the influence of Milosevic and Serbian nationalists from the republic of Serbia . |
| 8 | Canon Mackenzie by upbringing and temperament belonged to the paternal age , which was drawing to a close , and " politics " was alien to him . |
| 9 | Of the 40 members , nine were chiefs ; the remainder belonged to the old intelligentsia . |
| 10 | Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) . |
| 11 | Maxim suspected that the cottage belonged to the old man , too , and went with the job . |
| 12 | They were all equally carefully examined by Philip Corder , John Gillam and myself , and there was a unanimous verdict that every sherd belonged to the first century . |
| 13 | The Triassic Dicroidium belonged to the small group of seed-plants , the Corystospermales , which were also restricted to the Gondwana region . |
| 14 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 15 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 16 | He had repeated once more that the central position in the Peace Alliance belonged to the Labour Party " for not only is it the largest opposition party , but it represents the essential core for any progressive alliance — the working class " . |
| 17 | All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century , the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures . |
| 18 | The hyena remains that William Buckland took as evidence of the deluge belonged to the same recent period , as did the giant deer sometimes called the ‘ Irish elk ’ . |
| 19 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 20 | Time was , he remembered , when she had attended the Greek Orthodox Church , where he also had gone when small , but its splendour had palled when she had realized that more fashionable people belonged to the United Church . |
| 21 | Much of Bosnia belonged to the medieval Croatian kingdom between the ninth and eleventh centuries , at a time when Hercegovina was largely incorporated into the contemporary Serbian kingdoms . |
| 22 | About 100 of the delegates to the 28th Congress of the CPSU belonged to the Democratic Platform of the CPSU . |
| 23 | The collection belonged to the late George Reynolds , who lived at Chalford Mill . |
| 24 | However the example I have chosen of the stylistics of manner should make clear the potential difference between the two approaches , and at the same time illustrate the use of a more technically advanced linguistics than that drawn on by Spitzer , who like Auerbach belonged to the European philological tradition more than to the modern tradition of linguistics . |
| 25 | One of the reasons why Sami and Jamal were so happy to cooperate with the Americans was that Younis belonged to the Syrian-backed Amal militia , which had burned Jafaar and Hamadan poppy fields and destroyed their processing labs , and here was a chance for revenge . |
| 26 | I looked up , the voice belonged to the local Police Sergeant . |
| 27 | ‘ Gentleman ’ was applied to , for example , the cadets of eminent families : thus four of the £100 assessments in Rutland belonged to the younger brothers and sisters of Francis Brown , Esq. , of Little Casterton . |
| 28 | The church belonged to the royal church at Hambleton and served the queen 's estates in Stamford . |
| 29 | The society in which western scientists lived — and all scientists belonged to the western world , even those situated on its margins as in Russia combined stability and change , and so did their evolutionary theories . |
| 30 | Yet Sidonius belonged to the same aristocratic class as Salvian and the early ascetics of Lérins , although he belonged to a younger generation . |