The phrase "belongs by" is not a complete sentence and not commonly used in written English.
It is more common to use the phrase "belongs to" instead, such as in the sentence "This book belongs to me".
We should care if the resulting money is spent on a Lamborghini: a chunk of the car belongs by right to taxpayers.
Such is our current state of national fecklessness that the gold medal for prompt contrition by anyone on the public stage belongs, by default, to David Letterman.
The Episcopal Church shed members and set off an uproar in the international Anglican Communion to which it belongs by consecrating its first openly gay bishop in 2003.
That is why Banyard supports what's known as the Sex Buyer Law or Nordic model, which places responsibility where it belongs by targeting men who pay for sex (it also decriminalises women who sell it).
To whom Keita belongs, by law, is not in doubt, but to whom he is indebted for the contours of his being, after six years with Ryota and Midori, is too finely shaded a matter to warrant a simple solution.
Bond is not only the man whose style says he belongs, he is also the man who belongs by virtue of not belonging -- by virtue of his not having even to master the rudiments by which mastery itself is signaled.
