Example sentences of "[adv] to perform [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The state is called on to perform a number of functions necessary for the smooth development of the capitalist system .
2 It is he who must answer before Parliament for anything that his officials have done under his authority , and , if for an important matter he selected an official of such junior standing that he could not be expected competently to perform the work , the minister would have to answer for that in Parliament .
3 The 8 cameras are powerful enough to perform a variety of surveillance tasks .
4 He chose not to perform the piece himself .
5 ‘ ( 4 ) Where a person elects not to perform an agreement which by virtue of this section is unenforceable against him or by virtue of this section recovers money paid or other property transferred by him under an agreement he shall repay any money and return any other property received by him under the agreement .
6 First , it is technically possible to predict patterns of cultural diversity , expressed as the ethnographic curves , from a knowledge of individual cognitive development , and also to perform the reverse : to infer at least some of the principal properties of cognitive development from a knowledge of the pattern of cultural diversity .
7 There was a youth group being set up to perform a play which was about teenage gay men and lesbians and their experiences .
8 I thought for one moment he was about to perform a Highland Fling .
9 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 .
10 Milan was one of the first composers to give specific direction on how to perform a piece of music ( 1536 ) and King follows them in the most natural- sounding way .
11 The term expert is used here to denote a person who knows how to perform an activity without necessarily understanding why his methods work .
12 The first piece of advice that 's necessary is that you should n't just try to be fashionable by choosing juicy speeches that catch your eye without knowing the whole play and having a working idea of how to perform the speech .
13 The voice of ‘ Cassandra Castratrix ’ is adopted strategically to perform an operation of creative mut(il)ation on the text of Herodotus .
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