Example sentences of "to perform a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July , 1992 , the bone marrow transplant unit at Westminster Children 's Hospital , London , agreed to perform a bone marrow transplant on Rhys Daniels ( now aged 2½ ) , who like his 5-year-old sister has Batten 's disease , provided the ethical committee approved and a suitable donor could be found . |
| 2 | DAREDEVIL blind pensioner Joe Collier ( 74 ) is making plans to perform a charity bungee jump at a secret location outside his home area to beat local councils which blocked his spectacular leap . |
| 3 | DAREDEVIL blind pensioner Joe Collier ( 74 ) is making plans to perform a charity bungee jump at a secret location outside his home area to beat local councils which blocked his spectacular leap . |
| 4 | It was the first acting venture in which he was called upon to perform a love scene . |
| 5 | There are also provisions in the legislation for one local authority to perform a service on behalf of another in order to prevent wasteful overlap in provision . |
| 6 | These cases must therefore have been regarded as distinguishable , presumably on the ground that Slater 's case did not involve any refusal to perform a service unless an unlawful payment was made . |
| 7 | They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing . |
| 8 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 9 | There was a youth group being set up to perform a play which was about teenage gay men and lesbians and their experiences . |
| 10 | Auguste braced himself to sound casual : ‘ Alors , mes amis , Inspector Rose wishes us to perform a play for him . |
| 11 | " Oh , to perform a rite . |
| 12 | The underthread for the lockstitch is provided by the bobbin , and the needle thread has to perform a loop to go around the bobbin which is held in a bobbin case under a slide plate . |
| 13 | The duty to perform a contract can not be derived from the principle of respect for autonomy . |
| 14 | However , there are two common alternative legal structures by which the purchaser can assume the vendor 's obligation to perform a contract namely : ( a ) novation ; or ( b ) sub-contracting or agency arrangements . |
| 15 | Sections 3(1) and 3(2) of the UCTA prevent the use of an exemption clause to exclude liability for breach , deviation or failure to perform a contract , in whole or part , unless it satisfies the test of reasonableness . |
| 16 | Clearly , total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all because of wilful default will not be reasonable under s 3 . |
| 17 | Equally , total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all because of circumstances beyond the control of the party in default ( ie reasons of force majeure or an act of the other party ) will conversely be reasonable in nearly all circumstances . |
| 18 | Total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all is unlikely to be reasonable where it occurs because of acts or omissions within the control of the party in default , which are caused by negligence , incompetence or inadvertence but not wilful default ( " inadvertent default " ) . |
| 19 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 20 | Because of the disruptive influence of Self 1 on our performance , Gallwey , rather than teaching us how to perform a skill , concentrates on ways of distracting Self 1 thereby letting the body perform in its own intuitive way . |
| 21 | Elderly people 's ‘ need ’ for support is difficult to measure directly , but a reasonable indicator can be obtained by asking them about their capacity to perform a range of daily living activities and self-care tasks , and about their mobility . |
| 22 | In 1986 , the satirical TV programme Spitting Image recorded The Chicken Song , in which the lyrics invited the listener to perform a range of bizarre activities , such as ( as I recall ) bury all your clothes , paint your left knee green , climb inside a dog , and ( the climax of the first verse ) pretend your name is Keith . |
| 23 | Therefore s 1(1) was contravened when , as happened in the present case , a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer . |
| 24 | Held , that , in the opinion of the court , in section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1990 the words ‘ causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer , ’ in their plain and ordinary meaning , were not confined to the use of one computer with intent to secure access into another computer ; so that section 1(1) was contravened where a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer ( post , pp. 437A–B , C–D , 438A , E–F ) . |
| 25 | It 's marvellous that the Brighton Corporation came in , but nevertheless the building to perform a function which is going to be useful for the community as a whole has got to be properly funded . |
| 26 | You have tried to perform a QA operation on a package which has not been submitted for approval . |
| 27 | The operation could be ‘ mopped up ’ in three days , but troops may stay in place to perform a policing function , General Tom Kelly , a Pentagon official , said . |
| 28 | There was evidence that in order to save both lives it was necessary to perform a Caesarean section on the mother . |
| 29 | Your next step is to perform a software and hardware audit . |
| 30 | In this part of the interview the respondents were asked to perform a variety of tests so that the interviewers could observe their capacity to cope with some of the tasks usually needed for people to live independently . |