Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] belonged to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people , or " the masses " , had usurped powers and functions which properly belonged to government and the state . |
| 2 | They had allowed others to commit waste and make assarts ; they had embezzled fines which rightfully belonged to the king , taken large sums for the agistment of animals in the Forest pastures so as to overburden them , and illegally kept unlawed dogs . |
| 3 | When I saw the opportunity to strengthen my own position and lay claim to that which rightfully belonged to me , I brought you the papers , and , being the trusting fellow you are , you made no bones about signing them . |
| 4 | He had imposed heavy and illegal exactions upon the forest dwellers , prevented the men of the royal demesnes from having their customary rights of housebote and haybote , and taken for himself the dues for escapes of cattle and other animals in the forest , which rightly belonged to the king . |
| 5 | They thought of the movies as a mechanical novelty , a meaningless and trivial craze which might be allowed to provide a moment 's distraction at a music-hall or vaudeville show but which normally belonged to the amusement arcade or fairground . |
| 6 | Johnny Marr simply clutched his twelve-string Rickenbacker ( Which once belonged to one of his heroes , Roger McGuinn from The Byrds ) and concentrated on the meagre task of fulfilling the promise held by one of the most eagerly awaited début albums in history . |
| 7 | On the other side of the quay is the Beatles Boat Restaurant , a large boat which once belonged to the Beatles pop group which arrived in Madeira in a very sorry state but has now been renovated and , along with many small boats , forms an interesting open-air restaurant complex . |
| 8 | Easily Accessible : Lewes is an interesting town dating back to the Norman Conquest with steep narrow streets and a mixture of Georgian and older buildings including antique shops , a ruined castle , museums and a house which once belonged to Anne of Cleves . |
| 9 | In 1912 he first used stencilled figures and letters in ‘ Guitare ’ , an oval painting owned by the Musée de Grenoble , and in 1913 adopted collage techniques , as in ‘ Tivoli-Cinéma ’ , a work which once belonged to Pablo Picasso . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it 's sad , especially here , to see the fields which once belonged to my ancestors . ’ |
| 11 | And there was an almost disastrous end for this 1913 American motorbike , which once belonged to the actor , Steve McQueen … |
| 12 | Equally intriguing is the bronze pony cap , which once belonged to Sir Walter Scott . |
| 13 | In each of these cases , therefore , the innocent purchaser acquired no title to the car which still belonged to the original owner . |
| 14 | By 1937 this was helping to bring into the orbit of Left politics an increasing number of younger , better educated middle-class activists , who found themselves confronting a leadership which still belonged to the 1920s intellectually and was socially based on the older industrial areas and occupations . |
| 15 | It can be a book which formerly belonged to some famous person , preferably with some fair indication of that ownership , perhaps his signature and , much better , marginal notes and comments . |
| 16 | Continuing our policy of letting you know what services you will find in the Scottish Science Library ( SSL ) this issue highlights our collection of company annual reports , our CD-ROM collection and the foreign periodicals collection , which formerly belonged to the Royal Society of Edinburgh . |
| 17 | However , building societies have taken advantage of the new regulations which allow them to raise 40% of funds on the wholesale markets , and are intent on maintaining their market share by encroaching on areas of lending business which traditionally belonged to banks . |
| 18 | In addition a bronze arm was found , 133 cm in length , which probably belonged to a colossal statue . |
| 19 | The thesis of revolution was a pyre for the bourgeois values which clearly belonged to ‘ the establishment ’ . |
| 20 | These are the Three Women , which originally belonged to Leo and Gertrude Stein and is now in Russia , and the monolithic still life Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table , now in the Kunstmuseum in Basel . |
| 21 | ‘ Some may ask why should we be recalling the past and reliving an event which really belonged to the previous century ? |
| 22 | This is only the most recent of a number of ‘ discoveries ’ of this elusive library , which really belonged to Ivan the Terrible 's father , the Grand Duke of Moscow , Vasily III , who in turn had inherited it from his father , Ivan III , husband of Sophia Palaeologus , the niece of the last Byzantine emperor . |
| 23 | And should not those in Sponging Houses , who squandered what properly belonged to their creditors , be removed to the actual prison ? |