Example sentences of "it belong to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Are you mad ? he asked , " It belongs to the air force , We have to send it back . " |
| 2 | We are not going to enquire into the details how such beams can be produced ( it belongs to the subject of physical electronics ) ; we shall accept the fact that the beam exists and will try to work out the forces on the outermost electrons . |
| 3 | It belongs to the past . |
| 4 | I detest the fact that so many famous paintings have been moved in the past , against the wishes of their creators ; and that the transfer of ‘ Guernica ’ has been justified on the grounds that it belongs to the State . |
| 5 | ‘ But — it belongs to the Church . ’ |
| 6 | Father Barnes will know whether it belongs to the church and with luck there may be prints . |
| 7 | It belongs to the church and is used by its laymen for committees and administering charity . |
| 8 | well that was for sale , that part it belongs to the council |
| 9 | down at the erm seaside it belongs to the Council |
| 10 | it belongs to the Council |
| 11 | It belongs to the rail family and is commonly known as a woodhen . |
| 12 | The churches have incredible wealth and this does n't belong to the Synod or the Parochial Church Councils ; it belongs to the kid of 17 who is homeless and frightened . |
| 13 | They have researched the ownership of the land — it belongs to the government , and is therefore safer to occupy than private land . |
| 14 | Because it belongs to the man . |
| 15 | ‘ It belongs to the farmer . |
| 16 | This distinction should be preserved ( even though the Russian verb is not quite square with the English ) , since it belongs to the novel 's overall life-against-logic argument : in theory the student would kill her , but in fact he wo n't . |
| 17 | It belongs to the class of items ( deictics , see further 10.1.1 ) which vary systematically , in their reference , according to the situation in which they are uttered . |
| 18 | The initial check , Gilmont says , is designed to determine if the bill is coherent ; if in fact , it belongs to the bank , and if it shows an amount that corresponds to what the bank expected to be billed . |
| 19 | It belongs to the realm of beasts . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It belongs to the Customs and Excise mob , ’ she told me . |
| 21 | Nevertheless Stavrogin does contemplate suicide , and the notebook entry ‘ to be or not to be ’ bears the date 16 August , so it belongs to the summer when the ‘ tendentious ’ political story gets tugged back into great-sinner orbit , growing physically and imaginatively larger and more formidable all the time . |
| 22 | It belongs to the Ardakkeans . ’ |
| 23 | Some of it belongs to the years directly after 591 , when Gregory 's narrative comes to an end , and has the additional significance of casting some light on the later years of the reign of Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) , which are otherwise poorly represented in the sources . |
| 24 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 25 | It belongs to the people of Greenock . ’ |
| 26 | No it belongs to the people Oxford University use the English language . |
| 27 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 28 | Yeah , but it belongs to the association |
| 29 | ‘ It belongs to the world , ’ said the Sheikha , not wishing to see me embarrassed . |
| 30 | Twenty-five years after the first American soldiers went into Vietnam , fifteen years after the falls of Saigon and Phnom Penh , the issue of Vietnam — Vietnam was America 's war ; now it belongs to the world . |