Example sentences of "do [adv] belong to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you buy a field guide to the birds or butterflies or mammals of an area , you will almost always find that the animals you see do clearly belong to one of the species described . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Indeed , she had a talent for implying that somehow she did not belong to her own Cabinet . |
| 4 | Maggie might no longer belong , to anything or anyone , if she did not belong to Fenna . |
| 5 | It is certainly easy for those who did not belong to Lewis 's group of friends , and who merely come upon the record of it in after days , to see its faults . |
| 6 | Yes , it is true , but I must add the following : even her hand-outs to beggars were based on negation : she gave them money not because beggars , too , belonged to mankind , but because they did not belong to it , because they were excluded from it , and probably like her , felt no solidarity with mankind . |
| 7 | Soon , one field was not enough , and the request ‘ all in a good cause ’ — spread to Jane 's two other fields , so the horses , most of which did not belong to her , had to be moved to a farm , and she had to cope with angry owners . |
| 8 | The shouting voices did not belong to our little world of passionate love . |
| 9 | Gaily picked them — they did not belong to any grave — to take to Ma . |
| 10 | Sometimes she dreamed fretfully of trees that came right up close , like gnarled old men walking , but they did not belong to any patch she recognized . |
| 11 | The distinctive tone of the old Conservative party was set by the land : even those who did not belong to great landed families still believed in some romantic notion of the spiritual strength of England 's green and pleasant land . |
| 12 | This land did not belong to the Ikhwan , but perhaps the secretary thought to confer an aura of legitimacy on the grant by getting the consent of the erstwhile administrators of it . |
| 13 | He chose a small squad from among those men available who did not belong to any lineage closely involved in the affair . |
| 14 | The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ . |
| 15 | The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ . |
| 16 | The great majority of those who took an active part in the work of the Association were natives of Lewis , and several of those who did not belong to the island were Gaelic-speakers from similar areas . |
| 17 | The plunderer of Corinth did not belong to one of the old noble families of Rome , and attracted numerous sneers from the Roman intelligentsia . |
| 18 | The main reason that he was carrying it rather than wearing it was that it did not belong to him . |
| 19 | As a result when I awoke there was no positive proof that all this had not in fact happened , and that it did not belong to a mental lapse from which I had recovered . |
| 20 | Hamza did not belong to this world , he was subject to another King . |
| 21 | For instance , if a testator had left per vindicationem a legacy of something which did not belong to him , that legacy was ineffective . |
| 22 | At that time anyone who did not belong to the Church of England was regarded with contempt and prevented from holding many official positions . |
| 23 | did not belong to Stratford , but to the cooperative movement as a whole … |
| 24 | the vehicle did not belong to him ; and |
| 25 | It may , therefore , also be the case that the jewellers were not over concerned with the purity of the gold and that , therefore , the balances , weights and touchstones did not belong to them . |
| 26 | He commonly observed to his students that it was doubtful whether there was as much joy in heaven as in some places on earth at the rise of the ‘ Barthian school ’ — and would add that he at any rate did not belong to it . |
| 27 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 28 | However , A. Alföldi has identified the head as that of Antoninus Pius and shown also that it did not belong to the club . |
| 29 | They were buccaneers , not careerists , and did not belong to the City proper . |
| 30 | When he turned or moved , they swung about stiffly like things that did not belong to him . |