Example sentences of "[noun] belong to a " in BNC.

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1 While it needs to be developed in terms of the production of ideologies by class formations , he regards it as a corrective to the view , often attributed to the sociology of knowledge , that a particular ideology belongs to a class .
2 If the Conservatives continued in power , because her GP belongs to a fund-holding practice — a superb Tory system , he insisted — there would be no problem ; he could put her on the waiting list and do the operation next autumn .
3 ( 4 ) Rigby Electronics ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've just brought out a device for checking whether a credit card belongs to a particular person or not .
4 Mind belongs to a genus wholly superior to sense as man is to woman ; unblemished and purged … it is itself the most religious of sacrifices and its whole being is highly pleasing to God .
5 She does her own housework in the mornings and spends every afternoon cleaning the bedrooms in an overnight transport cafe belonging to a friend of hers .
6 It is possible that the bull-leaping figurines belonged to a cult model showing a tableau of bull-leaping .
7 All subjects belonged to a group of volunteers who had previously participated in other studies and who were known to have normal oesophageal motility .
8 Hard-nosed policemen in unmarked cars belonged to a world of violence and intimidation he had no wish to enter .
9 Thus all the senses of mouth discussed earlier will represent lexical units belonging to a single lexeme .
10 When one came under the hammer in Morgan 's — the boat belonged to a fisherman who no longer required it — it drew strong bidding and sold for £2,000 .
11 For me , the setting belonged to a film set .
12 To raise the money for Greece he went to Ipswich , the nearest city to Plumford , and worked as a labourer at a warehouse belonging to a mail-order company .
13 The nearest rear entrance belonged to a home bakery .
14 Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species .
15 Animals belonging to a dangerous species
16 The definition of ‘ keeper ’ for this head of liability is the same as that for animals belonging to a dangerous species .
17 As for animals belonging to a dangerous species , a camel has been held to be such because it may cause severe injury by kicking and biting , but strict liability was imposed for injuries suffered by falling off the camel because of its irregular gait .
18 So far , we have restricted our attention to unrepeated real roots of the characteristic equation belonging to a matrix A ; we now consider the case of two equal real roots .
19 Today — such muddles often happened — she was wearing a cardigan of matted grey wool belonging to a much smaller and slighter inmate , a long brown skirt , brown stockings that wrinkled round her still-narrow ankles , and blue check carpet slippers .
20 Knossos , Mallia and Zakro belong to a second type of Minoan town : one where the settlement surrounds and is dominated by an important temple .
21 The people who are losing their homes belong to a settled community with centuries-old traditions .
22 That is , children at this age seem to make two further assumptions : ( i ) all labels belong to a single level , and ( ii ) they do not overlap .
23 The thrill of one day making that discovery belongs to a scientist who is probably still at school now — your school , perhaps ; it might even be you !
24 Pursuing the millenium The Arts Council 's new national plan belongs to a lost age of growth and experiment .
25 The bellicose termite belongs to a group that uses a different digestive method .
26 Restio 's father 's portrait belongs to a different tradition from that in vogue in the Hellenistic world ( contrast fig. 14 ; compare fig. 16 ) .
27 It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the document in question belongs to a given domain at all ( it may be some sort of hybrid , or simply too ambiguous to fit neatly in one domain ) .
28 Mr Sutcliffe raised the alarm at the nearest house , a detached home belonging to a company director .
29 Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation .
30 Strychnine is an alkaloid belonging to a group of chemicals called analeptics , which act on nerve cells to make them more easily excitable .
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