Example sentences of "be perform the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's little room at the top of the tower , this year celebrating it 's 500th anniversary , but the choiristers have been performing the traditional May Carol there for centuries . |
| 2 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 3 | In this particular case the distributive intermediaries , not the manufacturers , are performing the final selling function . |
| 4 | If your front leg in the strap is straight , it is a sure sign that you are performing the fatal mistake of leaning back too far . |
| 5 | He confirmed that the lump on my thigh was indeed big enough for a biopsy and that Dr Slachman would be performing the small operation ( thank God it 's not Bloodnott ) . |
| 6 | It was to be our first encounter with the " Bisus " , a bizarre peripatetic sect of transvestite and largely hermaphrodite Bugis priests who , it later transpired , were performing the traditional trance rite to accompany rice-planting . |
| 7 | The ‘ only means of modifying what they have done is to perform the same action when next invited to do so ’ . |
| 8 | Because surgery reduces the postoperative duration of the fluid the earlier it is performed the shorter is the overall duration of the condition . |