Example sentences of "belong to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of all the evidence from Abraham onwards , they apparently believed that God writes off anyone who does not belong to the actual nation of Israel . |
| 2 | Handwritten ephemera have a special interest , bringing as they do a sense of intimacy , of closeness to the people concerned , that does not belong to the printed word . |
| 3 | One is the private sector , at the service of the governing and dominant class , which is to all intents and purposes closed to people who do not belong to the upper class . |
| 4 | Not allowing the family member to take any form of responsibility that : should rightly belong to the primary sufferer or to someone else . |
| 5 | Ta Mok , 62 , does not belong to the Paris-educated clique . |
| 6 | The base of the upper division can he defined as precisely as the lowest grain of sediment above the golden spike , so that even if there is a break at the level chosen , the definition will still stand and missing strata below the spike will automatically belong to the lower division . |
| 7 | They " did not belong to the higher party and state hierarchy of the former regime " , he declared . |
| 8 | The main question was : did he belong to the Communist Party ? |
| 9 | Once the stage of lexicographic activity is complete all current entries should belong to the New OED . |
| 10 | It 's quite clear of course that though Diodati may belong to the first class , Milton belongs to the second . |
| 11 | Virginsky will always belong to the Petrashevsky Circle of Dostoevsky 's own youth , as well as to the ill-assorted group that dances to Verkhovensky 's tune in the late 1860s . |
| 12 | There was no one in the village who would own such a pet and the Lady Prioress is quite strict with her community on that , so I knew it must belong to the young woman who had been murdered . ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Gregory 's surviving writings do not belong to the rhetorical traditions which had been so fashionable in Late Roman and Merovingian Gaul . |
| 14 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 15 | This would seem to suggest that the head can not belong to the Aztec civilisation . |
| 16 | But not in Hungary , where the language does not belong to the Indo-European group at all , being related to Finnish and , ultimately , to some of the languages of the Asian steppe . |
| 17 | The longer a person ( here defined as the head of the household ) is unemployed , the more likely it is that he or she will belong to the general labourer or other occupational groups . |
| 18 | It is not easy to judge how many of the ten millions do or might belong to the prosperous aristocracy of the working classes , that section with which politicians come into contact , and from whence come those whom society is rather over-hasty to welcome as ‘ representative working men ’ … |
| 19 | The important point in the above definition is the assertion that things which differ in some common qualities do nevertheless belong to the larger class . |
| 20 | Some of the interpretations she provides , especially the emphasis on overt sexual imagery , may strike the reader who does not belong to the psychoanalytical tradition as quite unconvincing , but even if the specifics of her analysis are rejected , what emerges clearly is the centrality of play to the infant 's projective processes ; that is , the use of play as enactment . |
| 21 | He hopes to encourage President Najibullah to allow prominent Afghans in Kabul who do not belong to the ruling People 's Democratic Party ( PDPA ) to represent the regime in this delegation . |
| 22 | The reader knows that it is Zuckerman 's statement too , that it is fiction , and is likely to remind himself that it could well belong to the infinite regress of the dualistic indeterminable , where claim and counter-claim alternate indefinitely . |
| 23 | The second reason for this relative complexity is that , as we have already noticed , given lexical items do not necessarily belong to the same sets as in ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 24 | Starting with Aristotle , elaborate classification systems have been built up to show that things may belong to the same class ( and therefore have common features ) even if their appearance is different . |
| 25 | The six atomic orbitals combine to give six molecular orbitals , and these must belong to the same set of symmetry species , and we can write the reduced representation : |
| 26 | As the burial mound was of the period known as the Bronze Age , the horn and the mound could belong to the same period . |
| 27 | Period rooms in a museum are usually reconstructions and interpretations of the past , though they may well contain primary source material , the furniture and genuine artefacts from the past , and an assortment of objects which may well belong to the same period but which come from many different sources . |
| 28 | However , those who share the same class situation will not necessarily belong to the same status group . |
| 29 | The main points arising from this are that : ( 1 ) the vowel system is totally different from mainstream British English in terms of vowel-length , vowel-height , diphthongization and other properties ( for example , vowel-length is not usually contrastive , as it is alleged to be in RP , and so most vowel-phonemes , such as /e/ , as in gate , save , are realized as considerably longer or shorter allophones according to consonantal environment ) ; ( 2 ) allophones of phonemes can overlap phonetically with allophones of other phonemes in a manner that is not permitted by classical phoneme theory ( Bloomfield , 1933 ) ; ( 3 ) lexical items do not necessarily belong to the same vowel phoneme classes as they do in RP and SBE ( for example , whereas good and food have different vowels in most SBE , they have the same vowel in Ulster English ) ; and ( 4 ) many sets of lexical items exhibit vowel alternations , in that the vowels in these items are realizations of two different phonemes . |
| 30 | Near the end of the book of Joshua a passing reference is made to a battle , which may or may not belong to the same account as chapter 2 : ‘ And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho , and the men of Jericho fought against you … ’ |