Example sentences of "they belong [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such they belong to a distinct and long-standing tradition , that of the ‘ mères ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They may owe their intact status to the fact that they belong to a recluse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They belong to a world a hundred years away from us . |
| 11 | ‘ They belong to a Church — the Unification Church . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These assertions are made on the basis of research in modern ethology , and the arguments will not be discussed in any detail as they belong to a different universe of discourse from that of psychoanalysis and sociology . |
| 15 | They belong to a charmed group known collectively as ‘ the lobby ’ and reviled in some quarters as the slavish lackeys of the Government . |
| 16 | More sensitive contemporary artists know they belong to a generation which can not produce imagery in this way any longer ; on the evidence of many current shows , young male artists appear to have ceded the territory which they occupied for so long and now find themselves — where ? — in a nowhere land where they are no longer the wielder of the language , the focus of identification , the dynamic of meaning , the authoritative producer of shared values . |
| 17 | The vital task facing trade unions at the present time is to sell trade unionism — to convince trade union members that they belong to a beneficial , positive and essential organisation . |
| 18 | Surely the best way to look after the industry is to stop the nonsense of blacklisting people simply because they belong to a union or for whatever other reason ? |
| 19 | They belong to a generation which likes the feel of crisp fivers and tenners in their hands . |
| 20 | They 're all pretty certain that they belong to a giant . |
| 21 | Religious Education in the Catholic school helps pupils to the realisation that they belong to a community of moral wisdom , the Church . |
| 22 | They belong to a uniquely South American family , which also includes armadillos and sloths . |
| 23 | The AEEU would advise applicants to keep quiet if they belong to a union . |
| 24 | In more senses than one they belong to no man 's land . |
| 25 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 26 | They belong to the huge daisy family ( Compositae ) , and are sometimes still listed under the dreadfully tongue-twisting name of Dimorphotheca . |
| 27 | It is , for instance , asking for compensation for the guns confiscated by American troops because they belong to the Panamanian government . |
| 28 | This is like forensic science , where the more ‘ matches ’ one finds between two fingerprints , the greater the certainty that they belong to the same person . |
| 29 | Despite their astounding obedience at the start of their story , they belong to the old order , and betray its features : deceit , fear , including fear of God , selfishness , thoughtlessness , recklessness , cruelty and shocking disbelief . |
| 30 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |