Example sentences of "take us back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 2 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 3 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 4 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 5 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 6 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 7 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 8 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 9 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 10 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 11 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 12 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 13 | It takes us back to the past , when belief in God was a living thing . ’ |
| 14 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 15 | And that takes us back to the issue of continuity/discontinuity between animality and humanity . |
| 16 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 17 | How often a sudden aroma can take us back to an earlier time in our lives and cause us to feel happy or sad depending on the memories aroused . |
| 18 | A ‘ cross theology ’ , not on its own , let me add , but central to our preaching , will take us back to the central verity of our faith . |
| 19 | Many people will be concerned at my suggestion that drawing should be taught in our schools , perhaps fearing that it will take us back to the kind of dull lesson I have described , with children being taught unimaginative and stereotyped ways of drawing . |
| 20 | That really did take us back to the good old days . |
| 21 | Er we at the County Council think that to delete that Greater York erm dimension would take us back to the realms of uncertainty , past uncertainty , in the Greater York area , we 're therefore proceeding with a Greater York dimension in policy H One at none thousand seven hundred dwellings , which equates to hundred percent migration . |
| 22 | Du n no , I might ask my dad cos he 'll probably take us back to the pub |
| 23 | They took us back into the main passageway , past the hall and into a small chamber where Gavin Douglas , Earl of Angus , whom I had glimpsed during the banquet , now lounged in a chair . |
| 24 | Even sad films took us back to a world that we understood , a world where people lived their lives , hoping for happiness and sometimes even finding it . |
| 25 | They let us see him for a couple of minutes , and then they took us back to the prison . |
| 26 | In effect , in one step the concept of the turbidity current took us back to the catastrophism of earlier geological thought . |
| 27 | She took us back to the house where a servant showed us up to our rooms . |
| 28 | We got a lot of plaudits for that victory because it took us back to the top of the league . ’ |
| 29 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 30 | The italicised words take us back to the ‘ Polo Syndrome ’ , and remind us that the fundamental difficulty of all curriculum planning — how to get a quart into a pint pot — still remains to be addressed . |