Example sentences of "they belong to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds . |
| 3 | She enjoyed being with her friends ; their conversation was lively and interesting , they belonged to the real world — the world she had left behind . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was something faintly sinister about these speechless nuns ; but perhaps they belonged to a silent order . |
| 8 | ’ , ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Improving life expectancy gave them every hope of doing so , especially if they belonged to the rising middle-class . |
| 10 | They belonged to each other . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They belonged to every organization , social club , old comrades association , and church for miles around . |
| 13 | Some make preliminary enquiries then wait a few years but many feel it is so desperately important to know where they came from and who they belonged to that they go ahead . |
| 14 | They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’ |
| 15 | They were over now ; they belonged to the past . |
| 16 | They belonged to a friend of his who 'd decided to get off the sinking ship quickly . |
| 17 | They belonged to that earnest minority among the privileged , devoted to plain-living and high-thinking . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They belonged to him and were used only by his authority . |
| 20 | Perhaps they belonged to the Christian community in Rome . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They belonged to Lavender , a small boy called Nigel and to Matilda . |
| 23 | And they belonged to no recognised union . |
| 24 | A boy came home after his first rugby game with a broken nose , a torn ear and three loose teeth , but he could n't remember who they belonged to . |
| 25 | They belonged to Home Sister and , of all people , the Night Super . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , they belonged to two different modes of thought . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Scientific ’ tests for cognition can be conducted not on social groups and individuals as such , with all the political implications that involves , but on a newly constructed , asocial category of ‘ literates ’ and ‘ non-literates ’ , as though the culture they belonged to were incidental . |
| 30 | While reading cowboy stories in Moroneys I did n't feel they belonged to my life . |