Example sentences of "to perform the [adj] " 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 | It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds . |
| 3 | Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment . |
| 4 | Even if the courts had the resources to perform the first of these tasks , the latter involves value judgments of a kind inappropriate to the judicial function . |
| 5 | The question of justification may also arise where A seeks to assert rights under a contract with B which is inconsistent with another contract between B and C. The question here is whether A has a right equal or superior to that of C and if he has he is justified in persuading B to break his contract with C. So if B enters into a contract on Monday to sell to A for £10,000 and then next day to sell the same property to C for £15,000 A , by persuading B to perform the first contract commits no wrong against C. |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | as if to emphasise the significance of this movement , Ricci took a full minute to perform the simple rotation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is not enough merely to consider how to perform the five jumps as a technical exercise . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | In the case of working class women , Anna Martin , a suffragist , observed that mothers were being ‘ ordered by the law to perform the impossible and punished if they fail ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it was hard then to perform the necessary physiological experiments to test the idea . |
| 16 | Ordinary people have been coerced by minorities to perform the necessary tasks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is still an excellent vehicle , capable of offering reliable motoring , even when asked to perform the unreasonable tasks required on a farm . |
| 19 | Stretching exercises are especially important to enable students to perform the fantastic kicks that are the hallmark of taekwondo . |
| 20 | Two hundred years would have passed since the Maestro Sartori had attempted , and failed , to perform the greatest act of magic known to this or any other Dominion . |
| 21 | There are instructions to move strings , to compare them , and to perform the usual logical operations . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There were never enough surgeons , never enough ambulances , of course no ‘ wonder drugs ’ , and often no chloroform with which to perform the endless amputations of smashed limbs . |
| 25 | A young , green horse will be weak but if worked correctly will gradually build up the necessary muscle to enable him to perform the required movements . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is therefore left to the specialist food service planner to perform the required functions . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |