Example sentences of "[conj] to perform [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its purpose Augean — no less than to perform an act of reparation for the sins of students everywhere . |
| 2 | For instance , in a contract to build and supply machinery , the supplier might expressly undertake to manufacture the machinery in accordance with the agreed specification using the materials specified by the specification and to perform the work with reasonable care ; the supplier has then undertaken absolute obligations that the machine and materials used will conform to the specification . |
| 3 | More specifically , PI allows user-written software to reserve module names ; to generate package structures within LIFESPAN ; to read complete package structures or individual modules out of LIFESPAN ; to enter complete structures into LIFESPAN ; to list out the details of complete package structures or view/update individual module details ; to create Design Changes and view assessment details , to submit packages for QA approval and to perform the approvals . |
| 4 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 5 | Here the impression is that the object of make is given no choice but to perform the action expressed by the infinitive : in ( 147 ) the speaker even uses make to decline any personal responsibility for what he did — he was " acting under coercion " , a paraphrase bringing out the concurrent nature of the causation involved in these sentences . |
| 6 | In any case , all of these uses evoke the speaker 's view of the possibility of someone being so audacious as to perform the event denoted by the infinitive , and all imply a negative prejudice against such a thing being possible . |