belong to something

Examples of belonged

belonged

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It is thus difficult to decide to which faction of the religious landscape of the late eighteenth century he belonged.
It was therefore not possible to determine which type of spine they belonged to.
However, we cannot exclude the possibility that these differences could be host-specific effects, since crab hosts in the different countries belonged to different genera.
Phylogenetic analysis showed that rabies viruses isolated in foxes, dogs and humans belonged to a single genetic variant.
The rationale behind the law was simple: water belonged to the public and the government should be the only authority in charge of its distribution.
In 1959, 31 per cent of respondents belonged to one type of association and 17 per cent to two or more.
Measurements were made by physicians who followed a standardized procedure; they were not told to which group the subjects belonged.
In particular, the first steady state was not significantly longer when it belonged to a vowel than when it belonged to a glide.
In 2004, about 17 % of those insured within the second pillar belonged to pension funds under public law.
Since most church members belonged to more than one subgroup, they might meet with other congregation members as frequently as twice daily.
The participants belonged to a class of about 100 student teachers who did their internships at local junior and senior high schools.
Many of those who belonged to churches were reluctant to endorse this practice, on the grounds that it encouraged promiscuity.
The simplest explanation for the association is that these bones belonged to parts of deer carcasses deposited with the burial as grave goods.
It therefore belonged to an established and known tradition.
For the purposes of the argument, it is also necessary to reconstruct the original sets to which these pieces belonged in antiquity.
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