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

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1 If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty
2 However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion .
3 You should comply with all reasonable management requests and be prepared to perform the full range of duties appropriate to your employment , ie not only your current duties ; but a wider range of duties required by the ES ( within daily travelling distance of your home for non-mobile employees and anywhere in the organisation if you are in a mobile grade .
4 They are more likely to perform the classical political role ‘ of mediator and reconciler of different interests ’ .
5 Perhaps the most fundamental was the great variation in the size and resources of units all supposed to perform the same tasks at roughly the same standards .
6 This has led some people to commit what may conveniently be called ‘ Sahlins ’ fallacy' ( Sahlins 1976 ) , and to suppose that the operation of kin selection requires that animals , or people , are able to perform the necessary calculations .
7 The logic of Ormrod J. 's decision must cause us to say that the male in these examples is no longer able to perform the essential role of a male — that is , assert his biological maleness — and is not , therefore , a male for the purposes of marriage , and that therefore there is no marriage .
8 Largely due to her courage and drive she enabled them to grow in stature so that the choirs were able to perform the major choral works drawing an audience of over 1,000 at a performance of the Dream of Gerontius and be broadcast with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on three occasions .
9 Working within a paradigm , the fundamentals of which they take for granted , they are able to perform the exacting experimental and theoretical work necessary to improve the match between the paradigm and nature to an ever-greater degree .
10 One more duty I was able to perform the next day .
11 The declaration is available to perform the declaratory function of certiorari ( i.e. in relation to ultra vires decisions ) but not to perform its constitutive function .
12 Thirdly , the reasoning in the preceding paragraph applies equally to a number of separate covenantors each liable to perform the same obligation as in the case before me .
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