Example sentences of "[noun sg] perform the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding a competing behaviour means finding an acceptable activity for the child to engage in which robs him or her of the opportunity to perform the defined problem behaviour . |
| 2 | Charged previously only with card fabrication , Solaic now customises the cards with a software mask that contains all the information necessary for the card to perform the desired function , and engineers systems that use the cards . |
| 3 | This entails the choice of the best pieces of equipment to perform the required function , ensuring that the flow of work and service is at its most economical . |
| 4 | In the case of working class women , Anna Martin , a suffragist , observed that mothers were being ‘ ordered by the law to perform the impossible and punished if they fail ’ . |
| 5 | The first was based on the concept that a contract might contain a fundamental term — a core obligation — so that a failure to perform the fundamental term would amount to a total failure to perform the contract . |
| 6 | Yet others rebel against this marginalization and demand both the right to perform the full range of police work ( from which follows the wish to carry guns ) and that men should become more involved in dealing with child and female offences . |
| 7 | The command file performs the following : |
| 8 | The startup command file performs the following functions : |
| 9 | as if to emphasise the significance of this movement , Ricci took a full minute to perform the simple rotation . |
| 10 | It is therefore left to the specialist food service planner to perform the required functions . |
| 11 | Whereas the time taken for a computer working randomly but with the constraint of cumulative selection to perform the same task is of the same order as humans ordinarily can understand , between 11 seconds and the time it takes to have lunch . |
| 12 | The " push " instruction performs the following sequence of operations : Increment the modifier field Store the new data at the address pointed to by the modifier field The " pop " instruction performs the following sequence of operations : Extract the contents of the store location pointed to by the modifier field Decrement the modifier field This pair of instructions is available on the DEC PDP- 10 computer , where the stack pointer is the modifier field of a specified accumulator , and the source of the data to be pushed or destination of the data to be popped is a specified store location . |
| 13 | The " push " instruction performs the following sequence of operations : Increment the modifier field Store the new data at the address pointed to by the modifier field The " pop " instruction performs the following sequence of operations : Extract the contents of the store location pointed to by the modifier field Decrement the modifier field This pair of instructions is available on the DEC PDP- 10 computer , where the stack pointer is the modifier field of a specified accumulator , and the source of the data to be pushed or destination of the data to be popped is a specified store location . |
| 14 | For the whirling dervish performing the nifty onstage mosh aerobics with Kurt , Chris and Dave at the last two Reading Festivals was none other than Anthony . |
| 15 | The Audit Commission performs the same functions as far as local authorities and the National Health Service are concerned , in England and Wales . |
| 16 | There was no electricity at the rectory , and every evening my father performed the only domestic task he ever did in his life — apart from lighting the fires — when he cleaned the wicks and lit the paraffin lamps . |
| 17 | The Home Secretary performs the following functions in relation to all police forces : ( a ) Some degree of control over the appointment and dismissal of senior officers . |
| 18 | Members of the The Odd Socks Clown Theatre performed the shortened version of the play in 40 minutes . |
| 19 | My youngest son , Joseph , is very interested in history , and we are going to Hue to look at the Imperial City and watch the emperor perform the traditional ceremonies of Tet . " |
| 20 | For potential solicitors the apprenticeship to an experienced solicitor in the form of articles of clerkship performs the same function . |
| 21 | It will be noted that in the passage cited from The Eurymedon , above , p. 229 , the Privy Council regarded the promise to perform the existing agreement as consideration and that Lord Scarman made no distinction between the performance of , and the promise to perform , the existing obligation . |
| 22 | Given that there are several ways of doing a calculation , we can ask which of them , if any , is analogous to the way the brain performs the same calculation . |
| 23 | A hospital in Buckinghamshire is one of only two in the country performing the new operation . |
| 24 | The eighteenth century performed the greatest rescue operation for forgotten civilizations humanity had ever witnessed . |
| 25 | Different styles of karate perform the front kick in different ways but the effective competition front kick is common to them all . |
| 26 | On Friday nights in Jewish households , the lady of the house performs the sacred ritual of lighting two candles and requesting through prayer that the presence of the Lord should bless the gathered family . |