Example sentences of "not belong to " in BNC.

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1 The plot states that an attachment to a strange woman , a woman who does not belong to this community of strangers , is succeeded by a return to the community , and by the dispersal , and survival , of the community .
2 Equally , a particular type of catholic identity may not belong to all but remains politically dominant for similar reasons .
3 That sort of failure does not belong to Leonard Cohen , he is by nature an industrious and self-conscious worker , if restless ; and so he stayed .
4 If anyone wants to come from some other way then he does not belong to us . ’
5 He hopes to encourage President Najibullah to allow prominent Afghans in Kabul who do not belong to the ruling People 's Democratic Party ( PDPA ) to represent the regime in this delegation .
6 Ta Mok , 62 , does not belong to the Paris-educated clique .
7 Indeed , she had a talent for implying that somehow she did not belong to her own Cabinet .
8 Maggie might no longer belong , to anything or anyone , if she did not belong to Fenna .
9 It is certainly easy for those who did not belong to Lewis 's group of friends , and who merely come upon the record of it in after days , to see its faults .
10 The statutes specifically state that a Lithuanian party member can not belong to any other party .
11 Albert Roux , chef/proprietor of Le Gavroche restaurant The flies and the pigeons do not belong to me .
12 Yes , it is true , but I must add the following : even her hand-outs to beggars were based on negation : she gave them money not because beggars , too , belonged to mankind , but because they did not belong to it , because they were excluded from it , and probably like her , felt no solidarity with mankind .
13 Soon , one field was not enough , and the request ‘ all in a good cause ’ — spread to Jane 's two other fields , so the horses , most of which did not belong to her , had to be moved to a farm , and she had to cope with angry owners .
14 The shouting voices did not belong to our little world of passionate love .
15 He does not belong to this college ! ’
16 This would seem to suggest that the head can not belong to the Aztec civilisation .
17 But Jacob still does not belong to his world .
18 The whole pretence about his future plans does not belong to relations between brothers , especially brothers who have just wept on each other 's shoulders , and who have shown each other such surprising willingness for reunion .
19 Near the end of the book of Joshua a passing reference is made to a battle , which may or may not belong to the same account as chapter 2 : ‘ And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho , and the men of Jericho fought against you … ’
20 When nuns make vows of celibacy they are saying that something is true for them in particular but that it does not belong to them .
21 Gaily picked them — they did not belong to any grave — to take to Ma .
22 No secrets and no money , that we do not know about and does not belong to all of us . ’
23 Sometimes she dreamed fretfully of trees that came right up close , like gnarled old men walking , but they did not belong to any patch she recognized .
24 The distinctive tone of the old Conservative party was set by the land : even those who did not belong to great landed families still believed in some romantic notion of the spiritual strength of England 's green and pleasant land .
25 This land did not belong to the Ikhwan , but perhaps the secretary thought to confer an aura of legitimacy on the grant by getting the consent of the erstwhile administrators of it .
26 Of course , anthropologists know that they themselves do not belong to cultures of this kind ; but rather to ones which present a jumble of themes , in which any impression of overall coherence is produced kaleidoscopically — that is to say , patterned arbitrarily with mirrors .
27 He chose a small squad from among those men available who did not belong to any lineage closely involved in the affair .
28 The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ .
29 The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ .
30 But not in Hungary , where the language does not belong to the Indo-European group at all , being related to Finnish and , ultimately , to some of the languages of the Asian steppe .
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