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

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1 According to Kuhn , normal science and revolutions serve necessary functions , so that science must either involve those characteristics or some others that would serve to perform the same functions .
2 If one ought to act because of an authoritative directive one 's reasons are different than if one ought to perform the same act for other reasons .
3 With a traditional spreadsheet , if you 've got 5,000 product types , and you want to perform the same calculation on each — for instance subtract the costs from the sale price — you have to duplicate the formula 5,000 times .
4 Later , when The Mary Chain are asked to perform the same feat , Jim Reid says he 'll only do it if members of The Travelling Circus snort his diarrhoea .
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 He surfaces in different places from time to time : there he is at St Mary 's church in Finchley , North London , witnessing the marriage of sister Bessie and Alf Davidge in 1907 , then appearing as if from nowhere to perform the same function for Gertie and Frederick Foxwell in Norwich in 1911 .
7 However , evidence of different structures in other programs designed to perform the same function would assist the plaintiff who argued that the structure of his program was protectable expression and not unprotectable idea .
8 THE ARMY WAS AGAIN TO PERFORM THE SAME SERVICE FOR HIM IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH EXCEPT THAT NEXT TIME IT WAS A GUIDED TOUR OF THE COURSES OF ACTION WHICH WERE NOT OPEN TO HIS GOVERNMENT AS THE GENERAL STRIKE ORGANISED BY THE ULSTER WORKERS ' COUNCIL MOVED TO A CLIMAX .
9 The bird might then learn that a certain movement of its bill in relation to a milk bottle results in a meal ; and if the bird was then to perform the same activity on an unopened bottle it might break through the top for itself .
10 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 .
11 A popular means of saving costs is to reduce the work-force and hire outside contractors to perform the same duties .
12 I ca n't reach it to perform the same trick as on Mait 's … . ’
13 Somehow local authorities are expected to perform the same range of duties more cheaply .
14 Such human needs will range from the basic ones for security , which are threatened when other members of an organization wish to close part of the operation down or attempt to perform the same operations with fewer personnel , to the need for self-realization , which may be threatened by extreme specialization and limited capabilities within the division of labour perceived by those in authority to be necessary for the maximization of their objectives ( which will invariably be presented as the goals of ‘ the organization ’ ) .
15 The ‘ only means of modifying what they have done is to perform the same action when next invited to do so ’ .
16 Flushed by success in selling homes in the slump , Pidgeley now plans to perform the same miracle in the recession-bashed commercial property sector .
17 This will be the case if , for example , you are asked to perform the same job at the same rate of pay but at a different office or factory and the move is catered for by a mobility clause in your contract .
18 Often a second man would be standing by to perform the same ritual .
19 To perform the same task on the other side of the world , the following eleven major seas — all on the continental side of the Andesite Line , all secure on their own tectonic plates — need to be included ( we are proceeding northwards and clockwise , from a point somewhere south of New Zealand ) : the Tasman , Solomon , Coral , Bismarck , Philippine , South China , East China and Yellow Seas , the Seas of Japan and of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea .
20 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 .
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