Example sentences of "[noun sg] to 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 | as if to emphasise the significance of this movement , Ricci took a full minute to perform the simple rotation . |
| 8 | It is therefore left to the specialist food service planner to perform the required functions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |