Example sentences of "belong [prep] the same [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For example there were evident differences in lexical incidence between items which had been thought to belong to the same phonological set ; get and never in contemporary Belfast vernacular did not pattern in the same way as items such as wet and wedding , and so could not be considered as tokens of the variable ( Ε ) ( see further 6.7 ) .
2 In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books .
3 Hence , even if the correct word was not in the lattice , it is very possible that an incorrect word belonging to the same syntactic category may have been present instead .
4 The Buid do not regard themselves , and are not regarded by the Christians , as belonging to the same social system , and as sharing an underlying set of political values .
5 The land scorpions were not direct descendants , but belonged to the same broad group and certainly shared the same savage habits .
6 The hyena remains that William Buckland took as evidence of the deluge belonged to the same recent period , as did the giant deer sometimes called the ‘ Irish elk ’ .
7 As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom .
8 Yet Sidonius belonged to the same aristocratic class as Salvian and the early ascetics of Lérins , although he belonged to a younger generation .
9 It belongs to the same broad group as the coelacanths and the lungfish .
10 It is currently unknown , however , whether this subset belongs to the same functional category as the CD68 + L1 + mononuclear cells infiltrating malignant lymph node processes and often developing in normal ( reactive ) mesenteric lymph nodes .
11 It is also important that the substituted items should belong to the same syntactic class ; that is , there should be no change in the syntactic structure of the frame as a result of the substitution .
12 When he gets to the event and discovers that the people there are friendly , interesting and pleasant company — and most belong to the same political party — he will begin to think .
13 Chastened , Wycliffe turned to his memo : ‘ Bullet and cartridge case submitted August 7th : Preliminary examination suggests that these belong to the same round and that the bullet was fired from a self-loading pistol of 7.65mm calibre ( .32 auto .
14 These markers are outward signs portraying whether or not individuals and collections of people belong to the same ethnic group .
15 Each of these forms , or intensities , can be given a separate name , but they all belong to the same basic message : ‘ Clear off , or I will attack you . ’
16 Some scholars think that all three belong to the same basic source , or at the very least two sources .
17 We can not assume that a divergent phonological system , for example , is structurally similar to or derivative from RP , or that lexical items belong to the same phonemic sets , or that the tense/aspect system is structured in the same way as that of standard English .
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