Example sentences of "perform the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before his death the Prince knighted John Higgs , and went specially to St Thomas 's Hospital to perform the investiture at his bedside . |
| 2 | The operators manipulate the relations using a series of steps to perform the user 's requirements . |
| 3 | However , this ad hoc procedure has not been without its critics , largely because of doubts about whether it is possible to perform the exercise with sufficient precision to arrive at a clear-cut evaluation . |
| 4 | No great manual dexterity is required to perform the technique , in that all these reactions go on by simply automatically heating and cooling without ever opening the reaction tube . |
| 5 | Why functions in almost opposite fashion to how , however , in that whereas the most common use with the latter involves taking for granted the existence of the means ( how to ) , the former is used with the infinitive exclusively in cases where the speaker is questioning the existence of any good reason to perform the event denoted by the infinitive : ( 46 ) Why bother to reply ? |
| 6 | In any case , all of these uses evoke the speaker 's view of the possibility of someone being so audacious as to perform the event denoted by the infinitive , and all imply a negative prejudice against such a thing being possible . |
| 7 | For all of these reasons , and unlike the earlier biblical period , only men were allowed to perform the operation ( see Kidd . |
| 8 | What you witnessed that night was Melanie trying to persuade me to perform the operation for her — or , failing that , to get someone else to do it as a favour . ’ |
| 9 | To perform the abstraction one needs well defined concepts ( for example , what exactly is meant by ‘ a democracy ’ ? ) and criteria for applying them ( for example , is Indonesia one ? ) . |
| 10 | Do you generally rely upon girls to perform the helping activities in the classroom ( for example , passing out supplies , collecting work , etc . ) ? |
| 11 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 12 | Once a specific PCR has been developed for an organism , it requires little expertise to perform the test . |
| 13 | Such a calculation procedure could be embedded into any CAD system to perform the calculation of concentration values , employing any three nominated entities . |
| 14 | Sixty years ago C. J. Herrick , the American comparative anatomist , dubbed it the ‘ organ of civilisation ’ , and I have set myself the task of seeing how far our scientific knowledge of nerve cells might earn the neocortex this grandiose title : Would these nerve cells , as actors , be able to perform the play , ‘ Civilisation ’ ? |
| 15 | Contracts for the loan of money and supply of goods to infants and ‘ accounts stated ’ with infants were made altogether void , while the possibility of ratification was taken away from all those contracts which required ratification to make them binding upon him after attaining full age ; and even a new promise to perform the contract , whether made upon a fresh consideration or not , could not be enforced by action . |
| 16 | The Carrier shall be relieved of its obligation to perform the contract to the extent that the performance thereof is prevented by failure of the Trader , fire , weather conditions , industrial dispute , labour disturbance or cause beyond the reasonable control of the Carrier . |
| 17 | Thus where the buyer commits an anticipatory repudiation which the seller fails to accept as terminating the contract , the seller will be liable if he himself subsequently fails to perform the contract . |
| 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 | In the case of purely generic goods , if the particular goods which the seller had in mind to supply had in fact perished at the time of the contract this would not make it impossible for him to perform the contract . |
| 20 | The crop failure was an unexpected turn of events rendering it impossible to perform the contract which was therefore frustrated . |
| 21 | The failure of the crop of Blackacre will render it impossible to perform the contract in the first example , whereas in the latter case the contract can be fulfilled by supplying potatoes from any source . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The importance of acceptance is that once it has taken place , the buyer can no longer reject the goods , claim that the seller has failed to perform the contract , and refuse to pay the price . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In respect of a registered contract the obligations of LCH are declared to be , as counterparty , to perform the contract as principal in accordance with the regulations , but subject to certain specified restrictions . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The existing knowledge about the employee from inside the organization makes it easier to decide whether he or she is able to perform the work well . |
| 29 | But Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen elect to perform the work in Reger 's later transcription for piano duet which restores the original orchestral variation . |
| 30 | It is only through the influence of individuals who can set an example , and whom the masses recognize as their leaders , that they can be induced to perform the work and undergo the renunciations on which the existence of civilization depends . |