Example sentences of "[noun] to perform [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classic case is the famous opening scene of Le bourgeois gentilhomme , in which a hopelessly inept student , singing soprano , attempts to perform a languorous love song . |
| 2 | The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data . |
| 3 | Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice . |
| 4 | There are two main ways in which genetic engineering can be used in agriculture : ( 1 ) by the introduction of a specific gene or genes into a plant or animal cell so that the performance of that plant or animal is enhanced in a particular way through the new trait which has been added , and ( 2 ) by the introduction of a gene or genes into a bacterial cell which will cause the bacterium and its subsequent generations to perform a useful function , for example , to produce a protein toxic to insects or a specific compound especially valuable to farm animals or to man . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These fish have developed their electric sensors to perform a wide range of functions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | She uses reversible metaphor to perform an integrative operation on this material , bringing it together in a mobile yet highly structured whole that turns around a small number of common patterns . |
| 13 | This larger group would then choose an observer group of given countries to perform a peace-keeping role in Afghanistan , which would involve defusing the insurgency and supervising general elections . |
| 14 | A popular means of saving costs is to reduce the work-force and hire outside contractors to perform the same duties . |
| 15 | In this case , s 3 of the UCTA will regulate a guarantee as excluding liability for breach or failure to perform a contractual obligation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Biopsy evidence of the absence of metaplastic columnar epithelium was obtained in all cases , however , because the need to perform an additional endoscopy compliance was in the order of 60% . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So wife Raine asked a clergyman to perform an ancient exorcism ritual at Althorp House , near Northampton . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Before that though let's just er take in one of tonight 's Coca Cola Cup replays , as Shrewsbury have another chance to perform a giant killing act in that competition . |
| 22 | as if to emphasise the significance of this movement , Ricci took a full minute to perform the simple rotation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is therefore left to the specialist food service planner to perform the required functions . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Don McComish travels 1,000 miles from his home in Adelaide to perform the standard-bearing duty each year . |
| 28 | Actress Beverley D'Angelo is taking time out from her screen career to perform a risqué country set across the Bible belt . |
| 29 | The company instructed its auditors to perform a working capital review on a potential acquisition of a company established in India . |
| 30 | However , if a person does not want to remember names of minor characters in a novel , or does not have to remember arbitrary names to perform an experimental task , a representation of content from which that information is omitted — an incomplete mental model — will suffice . |