Example sentences of "perform [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the tropics where there are only wet and dry seasons and food is available almost all year round , birds do not need to perform extensive migrations , and the breeding season can be prolonged to the point where some birds can be found nesting almost the whole year round . |
| 2 | He began to run about in front of her , to turn , to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace . |
| 3 | The human being as " producer " is forced to perform grotesque alienated tasks at work to provide products which exploit and dominate the very same human being as " consumer " . |
| 4 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 5 | Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case ! |
| 6 | The form of work organisation adopted by management in the Durham coalfield , at first , was to formally separate the three major production processes of preparation , coal-getting , and advancing ( the props , conveyors , etc. ) and to set up distinct groups , each working a whole shift , to perform each process . |
| 7 | Brass bands , jazz bands , school bands and groups of dancers have been booked to perform each lunchtime at three Chelmsford venues up to and including Saturday . |
| 8 | It is impossible to perform each stage of production simultaneously . |
| 9 | Such a description accounts well for the situation of SF for children , who do not yet possess the relevant textual or literary competence to perform advanced reading-strategies such as implicature , bridging and high-level interpretation . |
| 10 | Humming occurs , together with attempts to balance glasses of water on edge of playing cards and to perform unaccompanied violin partitas . ’ |
| 11 | In the past these synthesizing studies have been difficult to perform due to the lack of a technology which allows the storing , retrieval , analysis , manipulation and display of large volumes of data relating to areal units and their properties . |
| 12 | However , as discussed in Chapter 1 , a clause excluding liability for failure to perform due to circumstances beyond his control ( usually called a " force majeure " clause ) is considered reasonable both commercially , and for the purposes of s 3 of the UCTA . |
| 13 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 14 | Facts : the appellant pleaded guilty before a magistrates ' court in April , 1990 to an offence of receiving and was ordered to perform 180 hours community service . |
| 15 | We do not wish to perform poorly or to undercut our objectives . |
| 16 | Although it is tempting to regard ( for example ) a freelance author as ‘ employed ’ by publishers to write a book , or a solicitor as ‘ employed ’ by his client to perform professional services , neither of them , it would seem , earns his remuneration ‘ in ’ an employment . |
| 17 | It runs under Windows , MS-DOS , the Macintosh operating system and Unix , is aimed at anyone needing to perform technical calculations . |
| 18 | The YCs often have difficulty in persuading their members to agree to perform administrative offices . |
| 19 | At this stage it may be sensible to rely on your instinct but a further step that is worth trying is to give each candidate a simple task to perform that is related in some way to the post which is to be filled . |
| 20 | The Rev. John Kingdon , the Baptist minister , had two other ceremonies to perform that day , as he also officiated at the burials of Mary Whiting , aged 77 , and a deaf and dumb girl of 45 years , Christiana Yerbury . |
| 21 | Before this interrogation , he had reluctantly agreed to allow his wife to conduct it , being unable to argue against her contention that if he were to perform that duty , his questioning would inevitably be biased in the girl 's favour . |
| 22 | There is , of course , something risible about proposing that armies of 70-year-olds should come to the rescue of those older still , and by no means all of those who will be among the young elderly in the year 2010 will want to perform that role . |
| 23 | The plaintiffs had said that they were not going to perform that contract unless the defendants entered into the contract with them which was in issue . |
| 24 | Foakes v. Beer appears to be an application of a second , quite different , principle : if A tells B that B need not perform a contractual ( or other ) obligation owed by B to A , A can change his mind and require B to perform that obligation in so far as it is still possible to do so . |
| 25 | The riposte must be that what it is coming to is that it is now technically possible to perform that operation , and naturally a huge demand for it has developed . |
| 26 | Now it 's my turn to perform that task and I am sure you are all going to turn over a new leaf and make things easy for me . |
| 27 | The important thing is to make sure that those people that have got those particular skills are given those roles to be able to perform that role perform use those skills . |
| 28 | How do we turn the people who would do semi-skilled jobs on machines into people who can programme numerically-controlled machines to perform that job more effectively and with much greater levels of productivity . |
| 29 | Enraged at seeing their cause thus mugged , Democratic leaders in Congress were willing to perform political somersaults to get some sort of civil-rights legislation through . |
| 30 | ‘ We are able to perform scientific calculations that otherwise would not be feasible ’ , he says . |