Example sentences of "[noun sg] to perform the " in BNC.

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1 S 1(1) provides that ‘ a person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case ’ .
2 ‘ A person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case .
3 When Antiochus became king certain lawless Jews obtained permission to perform the rites of the heathen in Jerusalem : they forsook circumcision and built gymnasia .
4 Once a specific PCR has been developed for an organism , it requires little expertise to perform the test .
5 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 .
6 A CB is any behaviour which , if performed , robs a child of the opportunity to perform the PB .
7 So far as cancellation and termination are concerned , in most conventional types of contracts , the seller would wish to perform , or be given the opportunity to perform the contract .
8 It is thus a defence to show that the reason for the alleged act of discrimination was not the plaintiff 's disability but rather an inability to perform the work in question .
9 Bound up with the question of compliance with specification is the question of acceptance , since , until the goods have been accepted by the buyer , the seller can not be sure that he has discharged his basic liability to perform the contract , even if he has delivered the goods to the buyer .
10 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 .
11 For example , a proprietor of a garage may be restricted as to the amount of work that can be taken on due to a lack of skilled motor mechanics ; however , the proprietor can overcome this constraint in the long term by training non-skilled labour to perform the task .
12 From there it is an easy step to the setting up of conventions of symbolic violence , in which just the display without the intention to perform the action , can serve a ritual purpose , that is fulfil some other intention than that usually associated with those expressions , stances , shouted insults and so on .
13 This technique arose from the inability of a child to perform the ‘ rituals ’ of the adult psychoanalytical tradition in couch-based sessions of verbal exposition .
14 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 .
15 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 ’ .
16 ‘ that the master manufacturer , by dividing the work to be executed into different processes , each requiring different degrees of skill or of force , can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process ; whereas , if the work were executed by one workman , that person must possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult , and sufficient strength to execute the most laborious , of the operations into which the art is divided ’ .
17 Breach of statutory duty can take the form either of non-feasance ( i.e. failure to perform the duty ) or misfeasance ( i.e. bad performance ) .
18 Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) .
19 said that conditions ‘ go so directly to the substance of the contract or , in other words , are so essential to its very nature that their non-performance may fairly be considered by the other party as a substantial failure to perform the contract at all . ’
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Rather than create a new contract by novation , it may be possible for the purchaser to perform the obligations vicariously on behalf of the vendor under the existing contract .
23 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 .
24 Firstly , by appointing a proxy to perform the oath , and secondly , transferring the fief and his rights over it to another person .
25 Elton , a surprise addition to the show , took to the stage with the wild Guns N' Roses singer to perform the band 's hit November Rain , backed by a 40-piece orchestra .
26 as if to emphasise the significance of this movement , Ricci took a full minute to perform the simple rotation .
27 It is therefore left to the specialist food service planner to perform the required functions .
28 In the home she may ask the carer to perform the tasks of the assistant therapist .
29 If you want to have a snapshot of yourself , see if you can find a friendly policeman to perform the task .
30 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 .
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