Example sentences of "us back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this brings us back to the initial problem , which was precisely to explain how materialism could accommodate such a ‘ feel ’ . |
| 2 | Which brings us back to the Southern Effect . |
| 3 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 6 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The heart , or the inner life , is therefore a great teacher , pointing us back to the source of all happiness — to God himself . |
| 9 | It brings us back to the old calculus of human happiness , back to the rationalisations by which different measures and patterns of investment are justified purely in terms of their direct or indirect benefit to ourselves . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's only one ride that will get us back to the east of the Swamp and that 's the one we 've come by . |
| 12 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 13 | This rightly brings us back to the subject of worship rather than evangelism . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 16 | And that , of course , leads us back to the question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 17 | This calls us back to the ideas of alternate universes which we were discussing earlier . |
| 18 | I remember coming off stage in Rio and being piled into a helicopter to take us back to the hotel . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Our collections of still photographs take us back to the Crimean War , but for this century we have millions of feet of movie record , much of it unexplored . |
| 21 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 22 | This brings us back to the underlying issue in this chapter about welfare and dependency . |
| 23 | This comment was not entirely facetious and this brings us back to the remarks I made earlier about erm the use of Tampax and the government trying to persuade women to erm use internal sanitary protection . |
| 24 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 27 | This brings us back to the importance of considering the functions which explanations serve in particular contexts . |
| 28 | Verse 34 brings us back to the source of authority for these and all the laws in Leviticus . |
| 29 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 30 | Which brings us back to the Communist Party itself . |