Example sentences of "belong to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gooch was the leading run-scorer in first-class cricket for the 1980s , with over 21,000 at 49 , and in view of this his Test record -4,724 runs at just under 37 from 73 Tests before the tour began — is something of a disappointment , and illustrates clearly the difference it makes to a player to belong to a successful side . |
| 2 | Predictably , Irish Terence Adair believes that ‘ if steamers come into vogue , they will do away with all the romance once upon a time supposed to belong to a naval life ’ but the Scotsman 's more practical view chimes in with Jack 's opinion . |
| 3 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet on the question of whether to allow members of the armed forces and police to belong to a political party . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're too young to belong to a certain time yourself , ’ says Lady De Marr . |
| 5 | It is essential to belong to a major exchange organization , because buyers do not wish to be tied to taking their holidays in the same area year after year . |
| 6 | Out to provoke Theo into a declaration of loyalty , and at the same time sting him for continuing to belong to a hated class , he charged him with hypocrisy and self-righteousness in refusing to belong to either side . |
| 7 | The gems are thought to belong to a female member of an Arab royal family . |
| 8 | Some of the descriptions of working-class life had been so strange , so remote from the Oswaldston that Greg had come to know , as to seem to belong to a foreign land , in a remote period of history . |
| 9 | The source in question , acquired from a Parisian dealer who knew nothing of its history , appears to belong to a large class of mid-18th-century French manuscript anthologies of favourite pieces copied , usually from printed music , for the use of amateur players , generally women or girls . |
| 10 | Belle-Ile , however , seems to belong to a past era of modest and amateur tourism . |
| 11 | I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person . |
| 12 | This is because it is a non-UK source income which would be deemed , if the provision was relevant , to belong to a non-resident person and no UK tax would be in point . |
| 13 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 14 | But you 've got to prove that they are a suspected person — they had to belong to a particular class of person to be classed as a suspected person . |
| 15 | For all but a few types the LOB corpus alone is too small a source from which to reliably derive information about how likely a word is to belong to a particular grammatical category ( many words in the LOB occur just once ) . |
| 16 | In his famous ‘ Minuet in G ’ Beethoven introduces a third sentence ( after repeating the first two ) which seems to belong to a different world , yet is perfectly apt : On the other hand , often a ‘ contrasting section ’ is made from existing material , creating a feeling of newness and freshness despite the apparent repetition . |
| 17 | He looked to belong to a different generation from that of Dysart and Ockleton , his face flushed and lined beneath a mane of grey hair , his chest heaving desperately as he lowered himself into the wheelchair . |
| 18 | The sporadic gunfire , explosions and shouting in the depths of the forest , seemed to belong to a different world . |
| 19 | It turns out that the place used to belong to a Jewish tradesman — a cobbler , I think , or maybe a carpenter — who married a female demon . |
| 20 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 21 | To oblige them to belong to a national group was as likely to imprison them in an identity from which they wanted to escape as to liberate them . |
| 22 | James Sambrook observes that ‘ The Thresher 's Labour ’ is ‘ one of the earliest eighteenth century poems to belong to no recognized literary ‘ kind ’ . ’ |
| 23 | He told some 600,000 people at a mass that he wanted to visit China , where millions of Catholics are believed to belong to an underground Church . |
| 24 | A round arch near the pulpit is thought by some authorities to belong to an earlier period . |
| 25 | Until March 1990 all political parties were obliged to belong to the Front national pour la défence de la révolution ( FNDR — National Front for the Defence of the Revolution ) . |
| 26 | Thought to belong to the London-based collector Nicholas Embiricos , it was formed in the 1960s and '70s , at a time when it was relatively easy to acquire pieces of known provenance for less than astronomical prices . |
| 27 | Thus , when a series of Egyptian canopic jars of blue glass purporting to belong to the New Kingdom of the second millennium BC came under suspicion stylistically , they were analysed and found to contain high levels of lead and some arsenic , thereby confirming the doubts of the Egyptologists . |
| 28 | The former aristocratic standards of who and what was acceptable were now dumped ; everyone wanted to belong to the new meritocracy , based not on birth but on talent , achievement , and the resultant financial reward — the with-it people , as opposed to the dull , unwith-its . |
| 29 | If you are the right age and you fly in G-JOEY , the pilot will sign one of the prized certificates which enables you to belong to the exclusive Joey Club . |
| 30 | The brooch purports to belong to the Dark Ages , but uses a modern cadmium gold solder to hold together the components . |