Example sentences of "[pron] belong [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , and I belong to a Young Wives ' group , we meet once a fortnight , and I see people from that quite often . |
| 2 | You see , I belong to a photographic club — ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Just as linguistics is not primarily concerned with individual utterances ( parole ) but with the language system as a whole ( langue ) , the structuralist proposal is that individual works should be regarded as instances of parole informed by rules which belong to a general literary langue . |
| 5 | If you 've been self-employed since five minutes after Lucifer 's fall , and can fork out the massive outlay required , you might just find a way to bribe yourself on to the single-ticket waiting list ; if you belong to a small , minor-league organisation , your company will probably club together with several others to rent a cheap and jerry-built booth in one of the minor outbuildings , and argue with its partners over a tiny allocation of entry passes , whose holders will be consigned to overpriced lodgings in distant and inconvenient suburbs . |
| 6 | You are not a risk because you belong to a particular group , but you could put yourself at risk if you behave in ways which allow HIV transmission . |
| 7 | 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 .. |
| 8 | How close do you feel to Christians you know who belong to a different denomination ? |
| 9 | Those who belong to a particular group or stratum will have some awareness of common interests and a common identity . |
| 10 | Whilst we realise that if we belong to a national organisation , there will be some additional cost to individual Institutes . |
| 11 | As such they belong to a distinct and long-standing tradition , that of the ‘ mères ’ . |
| 12 | The vital task facing trade unions at the present time is to sell trade unionism — to convince trade union members that they belong to a beneficial , positive and essential organisation . |
| 13 | Critics it that time excluded authors inconvenient for their picture of a general return to tradition : Todd himself has little to say about authors such as B. S. Johnson and Christine Brooke-Rose , mostly on the grounds that they belong to a counter-cultural avant-garde never identified with the mainstream of British writing . |
| 14 | They belong to a charmed group known collectively as ‘ the lobby ’ and reviled in some quarters as the slavish lackeys of the Government . |
| 15 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These assertions are made on the basis of research in modern ethology , and the arguments will not be discussed in any detail as they belong to a different universe of discourse from that of psychoanalysis and sociology . |
| 18 | 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 . |