Example sentences of "[conj] perform the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Melanie shopped , she helped her aunt , either serving in their own shop or writing out price tags or performing the endless task of polishing the woodwork of counter and drawers , a Forth Bridge of polishing that was no sooner completed than the messy fingers of small customers meant it must be started again . |
| 2 | It is the dialogue with the mother that performs the crucial shift , enabling the reader to see the caterpillar in a new way , through the mother 's loving intercession . |
| 3 | The hardware and software components that perform the four main DIP functions ( scanning , indexing , saving and retrieving ) are a scanner , a database and an optical disk . |
| 4 | There are instructions to move strings , to compare them , and to perform the usual logical operations . |
| 5 | It is only by being so that he is able to concentrate his efforts on the detailed articulation of the paradigm and to perform the esoteric work necessary to probe nature in depth . |
| 6 | He was bound to provide at his own cost one riding forester and two walking foresters to keep his bailiwick , and to perform the military service of ‘ going in the army at the King 's cost wherever the King goes ’ . |
| 7 | That failing , there can be a conveyance between the husband and wife , to which the first mortgagee is a party , to release the husband from liability under the first mortgage and take a covenant to observe and perform the same from the wife who will also covenant with the husband to indemnify him in respect of the second mortgage . |
| 8 | The COMTEN AMIGOS software allows the user to replace two separate IBM modules , one for sequential and the other for direct reference to an indexed sequential file , by a single module that requires less space and performs the same functions ; this is particularly helpful if a single run updates sequentially but allows enquiries during the runs . |
| 9 | It also appropriates this amount to individual votes , and performs the sane function for the lump sums authorized by the preceding winter and spring Consolidated Fund Acts in respect of the previous year , and for excess votes in respect of the year before that . |
| 10 | The excitement is contagious , with many new birds arriving and performing the mobbing display without even seeing the bird of prey that is causing the commotion . |
| 11 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 12 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
| 13 | ‘ Hallo ! ’ said Roger , and performed the necessary introductions . |
| 14 | Erosion ( Origin of the River Amazon ) was commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra in 1950 , and performed the following year . |
| 15 | It is clear that the formulae just established provide a method of solution for problem ( a ) since unc and the computer can reciprocate both B and unc and perform the required multiplications . |
| 16 | Offerings of food are placed before the figure and so it assumes a role almost equal to that of a human , and it is in this light that it becomes understandable why the sanctum of Indian temples is usually taboo to all but the priests who attend the icon and perform the ceremonial prayers . |
| 17 | Anomalies indicated by the large standard deviations in Table 5 for the larger time delays could be attributed to some of the subjects attempting to rehearse the letters using some mnemonic technique while performing the distractive task . |
| 18 | While performing the required movements within the kata , the student is able to meditate . |
| 19 | As your fitness improves you will find that your heart rate decreases while performing the same level of exercise . |
| 20 | Ian Taylor speculates that tree clumps may act as a respiratory system , drawing up earth energies and releasing them through the clump 's composite aura , as well as performing the same function with subtle celestial stimuli . |