Example sentences of "that [vb base] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space .
2 These usually run sponsorship schemes that enable you to contribute to the cost of the up keep of the pony of your choice .
3 But just as the policy determinants of welfare are multiple , and sometimes unexpected , so individuals ' welfare is influenced by phenomena that have nothing to do with the activity of the state .
4 It was asked , how do we respond when what appears to most commentators to be a profitable plant is closed on the basis of criteria that have nothing to do with the plant itself ?
5 Bats may even use the sensations that we call colour for their own purposes , to represent differences in the world out there that have nothing to do with the physics of wavelength , but which play a functional role , for the bat , similar to the role that colours play to us .
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