Example sentences of "brings [pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.

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1 Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day
2 A modern Roman Catholic authority recounts a story which brings them up to the fourth century — the time of Constantine .
3 MTh students who have no previous knowledge of Hebrew do a special one-year course which brings them up to the level necessary for research in Old Testament Studies .
4 But then , about one year in six , some fortunate swirl in the currents brings them back to the island where they first fell into the water a month earlier and at a high tide in December , a horde of tiny crablets no bigger than ants suddenly emerges from the waves and marches valiantly up the beach and on inland to restock the forest .
5 Which brings me on to the major bookshop sellers , led by two strong titles :
6 It brings me back to the Nicklaus chain , and how a shot can swing an Open .
7 The memory of Nancy brings me back to the question that occupied me so much , what was it about the Centre that could transform misery , bitterness and hatred into love and hope , and possibly even happiness , all in the space of fourteen days ?
8 Which brings me back to the sermon with which I started .
9 That brings me back to the earlier part of our debate , from which we now know that the Labour and the Liberal Democrat parties want absolutely no constraints on the ability of a local authority to raise whatever level of tax it decides .
10 ‘ People have suggested to me that changes have been coming more rapidly than they would like but that brings me back to the feeling that people intrinsically do n't like change .
11 Once again it brings me in to the point where er double glazers have to go and measure up then do their , I know they 've got lovely lap tops I 've seen them now with their lap top comp their little samples there special catches here .
12 That , that brings you up to the
13 Comparing your performance with other companies ' brings you back to the real world .
14 Iago soon brings him back to the ‘ foul ’ image : ‘ I will chop her into messes — cuckold me ! ’
15 This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again .
16 The mother wasp goes out of her burrow , catches and kills a bee ( by stinging ) , and brings it back to the burrow .
17 Talk of things that may or may not be art brings us on to the ever-popular topic , sex .
18 This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect .
19 This brings us on to the question of how do organizations assess the effectiveness of their advertising ?
20 And that brings us on to the question of money .
21 This brings us on to the conditions in which the animals are kept .
22 We do n't like failing ; it hurts our pride ; it brings us down to the dust .
23 But this brings us back to the initial problem , which was precisely to explain how materialism could accommodate such a ‘ feel ’ .
24 Which brings us back to the Southern Effect .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 And talking about feet brings us back to the first step .
28 This rightly brings us back to the subject of worship rather than evangelism .
29 This brings us back to the underlying issue in this chapter about welfare and dependency .
30 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 .
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