Example sentences of "that [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 We do not suppose that the wipers ' starting to work was some sort of accident or mystery , of which the driver 's flipping the switch was merely a required condition .
2 The Court of Appeal dismissed a mother 's appeal from an order of Judge Wroath in the Portsmouth County Court on 11 May 1989 that a girl should be adopted and that the parents ' consents to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that they were unreasonably withheld .
3 In May 1989 Judge Wroath made an adoption order and ordered that the parents ' consent to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that it was being unreasonably withheld .
4 Some industrial consumers regretted that the Boards ' attitudes to tariffs were much more rigid than that of their predecessors ( who had been more willing to negotiate special rates ) .
5 The Sheriff was of the opinion that the pursuers ' right to damages arose at once upon the default of the defenders , as every breach gave rise to a claim of damages irrespective of whether it was a breach sufficiently material to justify rescission .
6 Geneticists and sociobiologists are only interested in kinship of the biological sort so when they dip into monographs written by social anthropologists they are predisposed to imagine that the anthropologists ' references to " kinship " are to biological kinship .
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