Example sentences of "[pers pn] belong [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , I belong to a photographic club — ’ |
| 2 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 3 | Oh , and I belong to a Young Wives ' group , we meet once a fortnight , and I see people from that quite often . |
| 4 | That I belong to a sort of band of people who have to stand against all the rest . |
| 5 | I belong to a family I know nothing about and I do n't feel secure or grounded any longer . |
| 6 | I belong to a Committee who call themselves Women Against Apartheid , and we have been engaged in campaigning a lot against these marital laws . |
| 7 | I 've been in a sauna in London I belong to a health club there . |
| 8 | But taking out your own cover may not be necessary if you belong to a trade association which offers its members the benefit of confidential advice if they run into difficulties at work . |
| 9 | If you belong to a group of people or a business firm and would like more information on workshops and seminars , both throughout the British Isles and abroad , then please write to me ( address in Useful Addresses section ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I mean if you belong to a church you do something to make it look tidy do n't you ? |
| 13 | There 's every erm every one of us lives in culture or sub-culture which criticises our own evaluations and , as I said , if you belong to a motor cycle gang and you do n't like motor cycles you wo n't last very long . |
| 14 | I think we have to remember at all times that we belong to a profession in which there can not be qualifications . |
| 15 | We belong to a dog club and someone there has suggested that this may be due to the fact that she is spayed . |
| 16 | You know that we belong to a century when men are only valued for what is in them . |
| 17 | Whilst we realise that if we belong to a national organisation , there will be some additional cost to individual Institutes . |
| 18 | As such they belong to a distinct and long-standing tradition , that of the ‘ mères ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They belong to a point ( if three-and-a-half books can be called a point , for it lasts from half-way through Exodus to the end of Deuteronomy ) of great tension in the narrative . |
| 22 | We look forward to his arrival in Britannia again and Boudicca is saving some good legs for him , — in fact they belong to a soldier of the IXth Legion who did n't hear her shout ‘ Get outta the way you stupid git ’ when she was trying her chariot out on the new road . |
| 23 | Apart from demonstrating one of the unwavering laws of British journalism , that nothing sells newspapers like royalty , and nothing makes a better editorial column than declamations of simple patriotism , the curious thing about these assaults is how much they belong to a period . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They may owe their intact status to the fact that they belong to a recluse . |
| 26 | Older workers tend to be at an advantage when applying for jobs in today 's labour market simply because they belong to a generation which had fewer years of schooling . |
| 27 | They belong to a world a hundred years away from us . |
| 28 | ‘ They belong to a Church — the Unification Church . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is much easier for Amnesty to help members to do more specialised campaigning if they belong to a group — in particular , we have systems for providing group members with training , and for getting feedback from them — but there may be new types of groups we could develop , and even ways of offering more personalised approaches to campaigning to individual members . |