Example sentences of "perform the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dressage is a test which you have to memorise and then perform the test on your horse . |
| 2 | ‘ I was brought up in Nigeria , ’ he explained to the court , ‘ and when the consequences of the drought became obvious I decided to put the national interest first and perform the n'dula , a naked rain dance , on the village green . |
| 3 | If you think your acting is good enough , perform the play for your Pack . |
| 4 | Despite the rise in female employment , women today perform the majority of tasks within the household . |
| 5 | At a later time it was even decreed that should there be no male ( in particular a father ) available to sever the foreskin and make the blood flow , then the child should wait until he had grown up and then perform the operation himself . |
| 6 | Hybrid strategies perform the scan over some specified initial portion of the utterance and work middle-out from any seed words found within this region . |
| 7 | Perform the trick , The ‘ four beds ’ [ p.79 ] . |
| 8 | For next month they perform the comedy Sub-Mariners on board a battleship . |
| 9 | To a politician the ability to do this kind of service was vital , and it was even more urgent if a political contest was in progress , lest the opposition perform the service . |
| 10 | The knobs perform the function you 'd expect , with master volume , and tones for pickups 2 and 3 , and , essentially , the whole guitar performs its part in an unsurprising but efficient manner . |
| 11 | The transition consists of elements which perform the function of linking the foundation-laying and the core-constituting parts of the clause . |
| 12 | Customs duties also perform the function of keeping out expensive foreign-produced goods . |
| 13 | Although canal bridges all perform the function of providing access across water , they come in a host of shapes and sizes and are made from many different materials . |
| 14 | They perform the function of a rite of passage whereby the reader is enabled not only to glimpse imaginatively the possibility of a reality which transcends the limitations of sense and intellect but also to validate it . |
| 15 | Indeed , since Britain is a signatory of the human rights convention , the Strasbourg judges perform the function of a final court of appeal for British citizens in the area of human rights . |
| 16 | Many firms in manufacturing and repair operations use outworkers who perform the work in their own homes , being paid for each completed piece . |
| 17 | The functional staffs perform the work under supervision of their own managers . |
| 18 | It is the haven , therefore , for the bacteria that perform the decomposition process — they need air , and we can say that , in order to be fertile and support our roses , the soil has to contain organic matter , moisture , air and bacteria . |
| 19 | This section of the manual should be read by LIFESPAN Managers since it describes the mechanisms to control and optimise the online/offline file store usage for LIFESPAN and perform the removal of modules no longer required in their magnetic form . |
| 20 | We then perform the iteration , omitting the first element of ( 4 ) : unc The numbers produced in this way reproduced exactly those of the last three elements in the columns of Table 1 , as well as the dividing factors ; they are of course exactly the same calculations , but with the matrices associated differently . |
| 21 | In respect of registered leaseholds s24 of the Land Registration Act 1925 implies on a transfer similar covenants to those in unregistered conveyancing , namely that the transferor has paid the rent and observed and performed the covenants of the lease and that the transferee will pay future rent , observe and perform the leasehold covenants and keep the transferor indemnified in respect thereof . |
| 22 | This was achieved with a higher erm educational higher education perform the industry in the year say and that was a major contributor and our Natural Sciences Division had its best ever sales . |
| 23 | On the face of it , the parties in the United States still perform the job of recruiting personnel for positions in the executive and the legislature , since presidents , senators and representatives are elected , almost without exception , on a Democratic or Republican ticket . |
| 24 | The instruction then operates as follows : Load A and L into internal processor registers Perform the comparison with the word at A If the comparison is successful , terminate the instruction Otherwise , decrement L and increment A If L is zero , terminate the instruction Otherwise , jump back to the second line |
| 25 | Experiments have shown that males which perform the zigzag display at a higher rate ( more swims back and forth per minute ) are more likely to be successful at courtship : a female is more likely to mate with a male whose zigzagging is more energetic . |
| 26 | In a great city like Ibadan a flour made from cassava , known as gari , is the basic foodstuff and armies of hard working women perform the task of transforming the cassava into gari ; clothes and basic furniture , as discussed in Chapter 10 , are all made by local artisans . |
| 27 | Where practical skills are involved , this may take the form of observing someone perform the task ( a competent nurse in this case ) and recording in detail what she actually does . |
| 28 | Products thus described , and suitable formulated , essentially perform the role of the manual detergent but in locations or circumstances where the detergent is unsuitable . |
| 29 | Whilst I am happy to bolt Spectrum PCBs into metal or plastic cases and generally perform the role of tester I must confess that I balked at performing this simple assembly job . |
| 30 | Expert systems--computer programmes which perform the role of professional experts--have had a mixed reception since they moved from the research lab into industry and commerce . |