Example sentences of "belonged to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many Oxford men , he belonged to the strong Socratic tradition in which dialogue was esteemed as highly as the written word . |
| 2 | One of the reasons why Sami and Jamal were so happy to cooperate with the Americans was that Younis belonged to the Syrian-backed Amal militia , which had burned Jafaar and Hamadan poppy fields and destroyed their processing labs , and here was a chance for revenge . |
| 3 | The Kolowrat family gave money for the church as one of their family belonged to the Jesuit Order and it was here they chose to be buried . |
| 4 | The fifth house from the left belonged to the latter . |
| 5 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 6 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 7 | Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) . |
| 8 | The kingdom of Sicily , it was agreed , belonged to the Roman Church . |
| 9 | Another La Plata station , quite different , four-square and concrete , belonged to the provincial government 's metre-gauge railway . |
| 10 | As a diplomat and administrator he really belonged to the Imperialist age before the discovery of oil and could be rather paternalistic in his attitudes . |
| 11 | One belonged to the one-toothed Ladjang , and was shared amongst a few fastidious members of the crew ; the other was Tandri 's , to be used by no one , not even himself . |
| 12 | The Sporck Palace ( 12/321 ) formerly belonged to the Piccolomini family . |
| 13 | She enjoyed being with her friends ; their conversation was lively and interesting , they belonged to the real world — the world she had left behind . |
| 14 | It is evident that the tourist whom railway companies , hotels and guide-books had in mind belonged to the comfortably-off middle classes . |
| 15 | The society in which western scientists lived — and all scientists belonged to the western world , even those situated on its margins as in Russia combined stability and change , and so did their evolutionary theories . |
| 16 | In his manner of thought and sympathies , Anselm belonged to the first of these two periods , both with regard to the organization of the Church and the supremacy of the monastic foundations which had maintained the spiritual life of Europe for three or four hundred years . |
| 17 | They were all equally carefully examined by Philip Corder , John Gillam and myself , and there was a unanimous verdict that every sherd belonged to the first century . |
| 18 | Goff thought that Minton , consciously or unconsciously , divided his friends into two categories , serious and fun — and was aware that he belonged to the first . |
| 19 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 20 | She belonged to the firm Fellows , Morton & Clayton . |
| 21 | It was during this crisis that Gregory was criticized as not being a local : even a bishop who belonged to the episcopal dynasty of Tours could be portrayed by his own clergy as an outsider . |
| 22 | They include the Duchess of Windsor 's inscribed gold Cartier bracelet and a diamond and turquoise turtle brooch that once belonged to the late American artist Andy Warhol . |
| 23 | The Pontormo , a Mannerist masterpiece painted in 1537 , belonged to the late Chauncey Stillman and had long been on loan to the Frick collection in New York . |
| 24 | The collection belonged to the late George Reynolds , who lived at Chalford Mill . |
| 25 | He had repeated once more that the central position in the Peace Alliance belonged to the Labour Party " for not only is it the largest opposition party , but it represents the essential core for any progressive alliance — the working class " . |
| 26 | But to the new professional researcher a Hellenic ideal was something that belonged to the modern world outside ; and while he might privately approve , his professional concern was with a self-contained world of antiquity . |
| 27 | The Court advised that the exclusive power of referral to arbitration belonged to the Mixed Commission , which had been established by the parties as a separate legal entity with specified functions . |
| 28 | A militant who believed that South Africa , and indeed the continent of Africa , belonged to the black population , he was instrumental in founding the PAC in 1959 . |
| 29 | However the example I have chosen of the stylistics of manner should make clear the potential difference between the two approaches , and at the same time illustrate the use of a more technically advanced linguistics than that drawn on by Spitzer , who like Auerbach belonged to the European philological tradition more than to the modern tradition of linguistics . |
| 30 | Angel explained that it was an interesting place which belonged to the ancient family of the d'Urbervilles . |