Example sentences of "they belong to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they belonged to no recognised union . |
| 2 | They belonged to every organization , social club , old comrades association , and church for miles around . |
| 3 | Insults apart , the kernel of the argument was that , whereas More considered the Scriptures to be committed to the Pope and hierarchy for interpretation , Tyndale believed that they belonged to every Christian , who would be guided in understanding them by the spirit of God . |
| 4 | They belonged to a category of fabric called fustian ( derived from the name of the Egyptian town where it originated ) , and by Shakespeare 's time the very word fustian had become synonymous with bombast and pretentiousness . |
| 5 | There was something faintly sinister about these speechless nuns ; but perhaps they belonged to a silent order . |
| 6 | He made the players feel they belonged to a great club , where even playing in the reserves was all part of an important and worthwhile enterprise . |
| 7 | They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’ |
| 8 | They belonged to a friend of his who 'd decided to get off the sinking ship quickly . |
| 9 | How I envied the schoolgirls of St Clare 's or Malory Towers : they belonged to a safe , structured world where rules were rules , good was good , and bad was bad . |
| 10 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |
| 11 | They belonged to a distant acquaintance , one Montagu Clements . |
| 12 | They belonged to a heavily built young man , hanging nonchalantly from the ceiling by his boots . |
| 13 | In San Francisco McDonald 's used lie detectors when asking applicants if they belonged to a union . |
| 14 | But the clan is broken — they belonged to a primitive dark age . |
| 15 | That was their name a legionnaire because they belonged to a legion of erm the Roman army . |
| 16 | The attackers told witnesses they belonged to a group called People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar ( PEPES ) , which has sworn to destroy the drug lord and his organisation . |
| 17 | Two Afghans , among several arrested trying to cross the border , ‘ admitted that they belonged to an intelligence group entrusted with the organisation of an underground anti-Soviet movement in Tadjikistan , whose purpose was to turn the republic into an Islamic state ’ . |
| 18 | Two Afghans , among several arrested trying to cross the border , ‘ admitted that they belonged to an intelligence group entrusted with the organisation of an underground anti-Soviet movement in Tadjikistan , whose purpose was to turn the republic into an Islamic state ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She enjoyed being with her friends ; their conversation was lively and interesting , they belonged to the real world — the world she had left behind . |
| 21 | ’ , ‘ Gently , gently , the floor … ’ ) , seeing that all was well I did not go right in or disturb the piles of old magazines , wormy furniture , books , and china lying there ; after all , they belonged to the house . |
| 22 | Improving life expectancy gave them every hope of doing so , especially if they belonged to the rising middle-class . |
| 23 | They were over now ; they belonged to the past . |
| 24 | Perhaps they belonged to the Christian community in Rome . |
| 25 | Initially , if they belonged to the Church of England , they were likely to be of the evangelical tendency so disturbing to comfortable Anglican parsons and laymen . |
| 26 | Indeed , the Teds had appeared on the streets before postwar meat-rationing had been abandoned in Britain — which might suggest that they belonged to the world of postwar austerity , rather than ‘ affluence ’ . |
| 27 | The results were as follows : 14 said they belonged to the sneaker set " S " , 17 said they were in " P " the popcorn set . |
| 28 | They felt entitled to , and duly received , the customary genuflections that were accorded to their rank , but they belonged to the local ‘ house ’ rather than to the village . |
| 29 | On March 7 , 1990 , Cetin Emec , a leading journalist on the daily Hürriyet was killed in his car in Istanbul by gunmen who claimed that they belonged to the Turkish Islamic Commandos . |
| 30 | Footprints , found in soft mud under the scaffolding , had been photographed and casts made though there was little doubt that they belonged to the victim , not the killer . |