Example sentences of "to perform the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment . |
| 3 | as if to emphasise the significance of this movement , Ricci took a full minute to perform the simple rotation . |
| 4 | Suppose you are required to perform the simple task of placing each of a pile of twenty counters into a jam jar , picking up one counter at a time and dropping it into the jar . |
| 5 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 6 | It is only by being so that he is able to concentrate his efforts on the detailed articulation of the paradigm and to perform the esoteric work necessary to probe nature in depth . |
| 7 | These terminal nodes can thus be configured to perform the specific set of activities they are required to carry out , allowing the arrangement of geometry-generating workstations to handle and manipulate increasingly large graphical models . |
| 8 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 9 | After nationalisation in 1948 , the pits were transformed by the universal provision of baths and canteens — social places to perform the private work of women . |
| 10 | Having regard to the doubts already expressed on the advisability of placing entire reliance on the automatic functioning of such systems , it is suggested that the facilities they provide for the application of water might be adapted to perform the additional role of fixed fire fighting equipment . |
| 11 | It is ridiculous to suggest that a magazine article , book or even the most expert of instructors can teach you exactly how to perform the complex set of movements involved in , say , gybing . |
| 12 | Referred to a new global or overall set of axes ( 1 " , 2 " , 3 " ) we need to perform the required tensor transformation to obtain the reduced constants in the global axes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati , who had met King Fahd in Riyadh in April , visited Saudi Arabia again on June 15-24 to perform the Islamic pilgrimage ( hajj ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Described by the Treasury and Civil Service Committee as ‘ the most ambitious attempt at Civil Service reform this century ’ ( 1990 , para 1 ) , it involves the creation of executive agencies to perform the administrative work of large parts of the civil service ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 17 | Large agencies , however , usually have a specialist function , that of the account planner , to perform the major part of this task . |
| 18 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Don McComish travels 1,000 miles from his home in Adelaide to perform the standard-bearing duty each year . |
| 21 | Two other members of the platoon have drawn the short straw , and are now dressed in their best uniforms to perform the once-monthly guard duties at the Allied Kommandatura building . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was bound to provide at his own cost one riding forester and two walking foresters to keep his bailiwick , and to perform the military service of ‘ going in the army at the King 's cost wherever the King goes ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We managed to persuade him not to perform the whole work during the wedding ceremony . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |