Example sentences of "takes we [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This procedure takes us through to the end of the first day . |
| 2 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 8 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It takes us back to the past , when belief in God was a living thing . ’ |
| 13 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 14 | And that takes us back to the issue of continuity/discontinuity between animality and humanity . |
| 15 | 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 . |