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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a band performs/plays
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The band is performing live on Saturday night.
act/perform/appear in a play
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She acted in many plays on the London stage.
carry out/perform/do a task
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I don't think we have enough resources to carry out this task.
conduct/perform an examination
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The doctor will perform an examination in order to assess the problem.
do/carry out/perform/conduct an analysis
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No similar analysis has been done in this country.
do/perform penance
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We prayed and did penance together.
perform a calculation formal (= do one )
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Computers can perform calculations very quickly.
perform a dance
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We watched the group perform some traditional Spanish dances.
perform a play
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The play was performed by Brighton Youth Theatre.
perform a song (= in public )
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He doesn’t like performing his songs live.
perform an act (= do something, especially something difficult or useful )
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The nurses performed many small acts of kindness.
perform live
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I love their music, but I’ve never seen them perform live .
perform/accomplish/achieve a feat
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the woman who performed the feat of sailing around the world alone
perform/carry out a chore formal (= do a chore )
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It's good for kids to learn how to perform household chores.
perform/conduct a ceremony
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The Bishop of Louisiana performed the ceremony.
perform/conduct an experiment formal (= do an experiment )
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The laboratory began conducting experiments on rats.
perform/fulfil a function
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In your new job you will perform a variety of functions.
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The church fulfils a valuable social function.
performing arts
perform...mime
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They will perform a short mime later.
perform/play to an audience
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The band played to huge audiences in Mexico City and Buenos Aires.
performs...ritual
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The lady of the house performs the sacred ritual of lighting two candles.
perform/work a miracle (= achieve something very good which no one thought was possible )
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The new coach has worked miracles, and the team have won their last four games.
play in/perform in a concert
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I'm playing in a jazz concert on Saturday night.
play/perform an essential role in sth
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Antibiotics play an essential role in controlling infection.
rites...performed
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These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
better
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When faced with familiar letter-strings in novel combinations, skilled readers perform better than less skilled readers.
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They tended to come from a slightly less disadvantaged background and to have performed better , often much better, in school.
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Quality networks within the hotels encourage employees to make suggestions which will help them perform better .
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The study claimed that the same applications performed better in the Macintosh models and that Macintosh offered better price performance.
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We do know that at present males perform better than females at spatial visualisation tests.
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But just because a flour is organically grown does not guarantee that it will perform better .
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As would be expected, own solicitors are less available than duty solicitors and rota schemes perform better than panels.
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Klatsky found that some subjects preferred trackballs or Glidepoint pads even though they actually performed better with mice.
well
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I told him that he had six months and if he performed well I'd buy him a company car.
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Yet these stocks performed well in both.
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Anthony Record, Britannia's chairman, said Actron had overcome its problems and was performing well .
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On top of her usual lack of self-confidence, Eddie feels more than usual pressure to perform well during this game.
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In comparison to those sectors, supermarkets performed well year on year.
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On winding grades, it also performed well .
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Britain had always performed well in this competition and we had a strong team once again.
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As an adult, you know that self-consciousness only inhibits your ability to perform well .
■ NOUN
ability
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Whiners are pretty insecure about their ability to perform , Rhoads said.
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Trans World's ability to perform so well during this period raised eyebrows.
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The comedian expressed doubts about his ability to perform without a live audience, but agreed to do it.
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Play instinct is redirected into working ability and willingness to perform tasks.
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Another big difference has to do with speed and the ability to perform in real time.
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I would say always remember that what is on show is oneself, not necessarily the ability to perform brilliant characterisations.
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A few years after revealing her diagnosis, Collyar said, she became aware of rumors questioning her ability to perform .
act
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Boro have been involved in photo-finishes since the 1986 liquidation crisis, while Lawrence performed a permanent highwire act at Charlton Athletic.
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He was like a robot kitchen helper, he sometimes thought, who performed acts without understanding what he was doing.
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There's always a reason why a person performs the murder act .
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The Goddess who performs this act is Kubaba, the Hittite name for Cybele.
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Instead he will, in best bib and tucker, be performing his last official act as the Masters champion.
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Kronos performs an equally strange act .
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It is used in respect of sacred trees, shrines, etc., and is performed as an act of reverence or respect.
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I never saw any one perform an act of cruelty.
action
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To perform higher actions , to serve the imagination with special distinction, it seems essential to be histrionic.
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Many of these songs give opportunity for pupils to mime or perform actions while seated at their desks.
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In young children, construction occurs almost exclusively when they perform actions on objects.
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If state officials perform a particular action , the elite must have had a goal which that action helps.
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First, highlight the text, then perform the action .
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In active clauses, the subject is the agent responsible for performing the action .
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The children are required to perform these actions as they hear the teacher's instructions.
activity
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A person may be unable to perform a major life activity which an average person could perform.
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Design and perform some activity that uses the instrument.
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In complex learning such as problem-solving, it can mean having the opportunity to perform further activities within a particular class of problems.
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It does, however, provide an excellent centrepiece for performing all those other activities which are so useful for coronary patients.
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We begin to perform activities with greater efficiency and therefore have much more energy at the end of the day.
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The ability of members successfully to perform practical activities in collaboration with others is what makes the social world possible.
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Getting Up From a Chair Most people expend tremendous amounts of energy when performing this simple activity .
acts
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Does she perform several different speech acts with the word, questioning, commanding, wishing, stating?
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He was like a robot kitchen helper, he sometimes thought, who performed acts without understanding what he was doing.
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The hygienic bee performs two acts .
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Scrapbooks and bottles of paste and cutout articles of the young Dove braving gales in canoes, performing heroic acts .
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In many areas, the state has stepped in to perform such acts .
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Just in case, Thérèse performed as many acts of mortification daily as she could think of.
analysis
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To explore the mode of inheritance further we performed a complex segregation analysis .
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A major problem with the approach adopted is that there is not enough detail to allow you to actually perform the analysis .
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The first approach is to perform syntactic analysis first then have a second pass convert the syntactic tree to a semantic representation.
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It is therefore important to be able to perform discrete sensitivity analysis and to handle lower bounds.
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Moreover, to be able to perform a reliable statistical analysis the sample size must be considerably larger.
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Unfortunately this method has a number of drawbacks, notably the time taken to perform the analysis .
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I Charreau, who prepared the randomisation list and performed the intermediate analysis .
ceremony
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Read in studio A bishop has performed the opening ceremony at a pub which is owned by the church.
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I stood in back of Polly and Eddie while the minister performed the marriage ceremony .
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Besides, Mait has decided to perform his ceremony tonight.
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He also has written a piece that 100 percussionists will perform at the opening ceremonies for the summer Olympic Games.
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The teenage boy sits in silence, without anaesthetic, as the elders perform the ceremony .
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Baroness Masham of Ilton, a member of all-party committees on the disabled, will perform the opening ceremony .
dance
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He began to run about in front of her, to turn, to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace.
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Hopis perform their Snake Dance surrounded by Anglos armed with tripods, in 1897.
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Bunched tightly together by older men in animal skins and carrying spears, they perform a ceremonial dance to insistent drumming.
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In the procession from Athens, as the mystae came over a bridge, people impersonating BAubo performed lewd dances before them.
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Martina and I performed the uncertain dance of people parting, with its limited steps.
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The female of the species performs her mating dance .
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She performs a ritualised dance that tells the other bees the distance, direction, and quality of the food.
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Verrucas Children now perform dance and gymnastics lessons in bare feet.
duty
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But, as hostess, she had duties to perform .
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Its duties are performed without executive leave and, in the contemplation of the statute, must be free from executive control.
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The chapel had important liturgical and ceremonial duties to perform .
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One of the instruments by which this duty may be peaceably performed , is the judicial department.
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But he knew that he had one more duty to perform before he allowed himself to succumb to his craving for rest.
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They each had their own duties to perform to keep their household running smoothly.
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The duty to perform a contract can not be derived from the principle of respect for autonomy.
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Later Justices of the Peace were appointed and as time passed they were given administrative as well as judicial duties to perform .
experiment
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Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material.
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In other words, Heisenberg pointed out that bodies, not detached minds, perform experiments .
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Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment .
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We will perform the experiment as before, but this time in pitch darkness.
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We design and perform an experiment , or make observations, according to a preformed set of ideas or concepts in our mind.
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I merely want you to perform an experiment .
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She performs unnatural experiments on prisoners in the concentration camps.
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Contrary to the popular myth, Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics.
feat
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Crawford was still in camp during the 1918 season, and was able to perform great feats for Wellington.
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The traders performed astonishing feats of gluttony never before seen at Salomon.
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After all, here was a company that had just performed unparalleled feats .
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The sports literature suggests that a few individuals who are able to perform extraordinary feats view reality in this way.
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In 1882 and in 1883 he performed the feat of taking the half-mile, one-mile, four-mile, and ten-mile championships.
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Latterly Dad had sobered much when he was no longer able to perform his old feats of strength and daring.
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How they perform such amazing navigational feats is unknown.
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And it may perform this stupendous reproductive feat annually for thirty or forty years.
function
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Sometimes this function was performed by castle towns, but some centres of the commodity economy were separate from domain administration.
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These and other functions not performed by doctors are carried out by people trained or supervised by doctors, the lawsuit alleges.
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However, before going to Budapest I had one more evangelical function to perform .
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Their conceptual framework is based on two central questions: What functions must be performed if the state is to persist?
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What role will the human resources function perform ?
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Here total income is distributed according to the function performed by the income receiver.
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Ministry seems to have grown up in a haphazard manner, basically in response to the need that various functions be performed .
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In most contemporary states, virtually every political function is performed by a variety of political structures.
job
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His doubts only increased when he performed another job , midway to finally making up his mind about the Bolt play.
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Under such a system, workers have the opportunity to increase their base pay by learning to perform a variety of jobs .
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Ultra-violet light sterilisers perform a similar job to ozone without so many possible side effects.
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Since they learn to perform more jobs , they are more valuable to their company because they are more flexible.
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His wife was the chairman of a health authority and she performed that job excellently for many years.
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Everyone seems to know how to perform every job and is willing to do so.
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The computer revolution may have a significant effect upon the way in which you are able to perform your job .
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They were anxious about how much they would like and how well they would perform the new job .
miracle
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Having performed a healing miracle , she is packed off to a remote convent.
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Tony Freeman prays that he can perform a miracle .
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Cloughie has performed miracles with limited resources at his disposal.
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People actually believe he performs miracles .
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Stalls were out and there were mummers performing miracle plays.
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She had the gift of prophecy, performed many miracles and is known to have mysteriously supplied food for the convent.
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Such an accusation is hardly likely to have been invented by his enemies if he had not performed miracles .
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He even performed a miracle to prove his innocence.
music
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She performed her hit Music , looking more muscular than ever.
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Meanwhile, he obtained a medical degree, but has been performing music exclusively since 1978.
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Unfortunately, slow music and fast music altered how they performed the tests so music is now forbidden during testing sessions.
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It will be always a great pleasure to remain in contact with the spirit of Olivier Messiaen every time I perform his music .
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Mr Gregory will also perform harpsichord music of the baroque period.
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The Gabrielis specialize in performing music in historic churches, compiling actual or possible programs originally heard in those venues.
operation
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Two surgeons will perform all the operations .
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You can sort these tables and even perform mathematical operations on them.
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There are instructions to move strings, to compare them, and to perform the usual logical operations .
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My doctors performed a bypass operation to clear away a blockage in the blood vessels that supply my heart.
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They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing.
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To prevent certain paralysis they needed to perform a series of operations to graft a spinal vertebra.
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A hospital in Buckinghamshire is one of only two in the country performing the new operation .
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Now and then, as a favor to highly placed people, Papa performed operations .
patient
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Preoperative radiotherapy with 30 Gy was performed in 52 patients .
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The operation has been performed on 10 patients so far, with inconclusive results.
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Intestinal resection was performed in 36 patients during the period of follow up.
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Most of the time, x-rays are performed to reassure patients or doctors, according to the researchers.
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The procedure, Incidentally, can and has been performed on patients undergoing brain surgery.
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Endoscopic sphincterotomy was performed in 16 patients with successful removal of all calculi in seven.
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Intervention trials were performed in normotensive patients with insulin-dependent diabetes and microalbuminuria.
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Exhaustive microbiological analysis were performed in order to exclude patients with gastrointestinal infection.
play
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Now, some children are performing plays with very different themes.
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The actors perform scenes from the play both in costume and in informal attire.
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By his retirement in 1955 he had performed in over 200 plays .
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There was a youth group being set up to perform a play which was about teenage gay men and lesbians and their experiences.
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I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay.
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If you think your acting is good enough, perform the play for your Pack.
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The performed plays , and the acting, were in conscious competition for prizes.
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The craftsmen of the local Guilds had been performing a play on the Feast of Corpus Christi for eighty years.
procedure
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Anthropometry is the most frequently performed child health screening procedure .
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I performed 39 procedures without diathermy, and contamination occurred in four.
rite
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They leave their mundane business and material world outside the garden, and perform the rites of the perception of beauty.
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I imagined a sorceress inside performing her rites behind the window, with a red kerchief.
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Upstream and downstream, and on the far bank other villages were performing the same rites .
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She spoke for me: No one performed the proper rites of the dead.
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Finally, they perform rites to obtain children, preferably male, and for the safety and health of their children.
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Whenever a member of her household became ill, she called a medicine woman to perform a magical rite .
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Mme Guérigny insisted that I watch closely while she performed this rite .
ritual
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For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds.
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Throughout the day the grouse drums in the woods, and the woodcock performs its exuberant ritual at dawn and dusk.
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The enigma of the stones draws druids to perform their weird rituals .
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He had seen the etchings of it one evening after performing a ritual of weed-pulling from the tombs behind the abandoned pagoda.
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So wife Raine asked a clergyman to perform an ancient exorcism ritual at Althorp House, near Northampton.
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My only recourse was to perform the Elimination Ritual .
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Squatting, she performed the familiar ritual of menstruation.
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It says he apparently performed some ritual and gave the girl a cake with her name on it.
role
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Men perform an instrumental role , women an expressive one.
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After they had performed well in the role , these women made prestigious marriages, as does Cinderella.
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He performed that unglamorous role for Cleveland early in 1998, then was traded to San Francisco in mid-season.
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Procedural rights perform an instrumental role in the sense of helping to attain an accurate decision on the substance of the case.
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On your behalf they may perform: 1 a role , or 2 a task.
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They were trying to learn to perform a role whose meaning and importance they could not grasp ahead of time.
service
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In October 1990 he pleaded guilty in the Crown Court to handling, and was ordered to perform 90 hours community service .
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He was fined $ 250 and required to perform community service .
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And the generals who had grown too popular had been commanded to perform one last service by falling upon their swords.
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Trappers perform a service that very few urbanites are aware of.
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Ewias had performed that service for Osbern, and he did not forget it.
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United Behavioral Health began performing administrative services for King County in the spring of 1995.
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The number of serfs performing labour services , always a minority, fell.
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Furthermore, he does not feel that he has performed a great service to humanity.
study
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Studies which address such complexities tend to be performed in women's studies rather than within feminist psychology.
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Individual characteristics that have been investigated are as varied as the researchers performing the studies .
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Genomecenter officials investigated, and found that Hughes was using government resources to perform genetic studies on test-tube embryos.
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An analysis of clinical parameters was not performed in either study .
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Wright and Burton performed a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 99 adults and children with atopic eczema.
task
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Women had many tasks to perform in the fields and in the home.
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In these classes there are multiple tasks to be performed , and they require the multiple talents children bring to school.
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When a brownie adopts a house he happily takes responsibility for many household tasks , which he performs at night.
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You can create similar macros to accomplish any task performed by a sequence of keystrokes.
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Baldwin had two immediate tasks to perform in opposition.
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In the course of designing work, the tasks to be performed would be broken down to their most fundamental level.
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It was just a difficult, demanding task to perform .
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In terms of the specific tasks he performs , he still is.
team
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In simulations, the teams perform similarly to their real counterparts.
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Akinbiyi and his team-mates then performed a strange goal celebration.
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The teams are performing as self managed units although the manager will agree clear objectives with the team.
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So there's no way of telling how team members are performing .
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And finally the Red Arrows, one of fifteen air display teams performing at Fairford.We asked which plane do they fly?
test
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Comparisons between groups were performed with the Wilcoxon test for unpaired data and the Fisher test.
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Economists can not so easily divide the country into two districts to perform similar tests .
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Howard University will perform two sorts of tests .
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The patient performed the tests with no other comment-until the temporal lobe site was stimulated again without warning.
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Statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney test and Spearman's rank correlation test as appropriate.
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They performed a series of tests and took an identical snack every 3 hours throughout the study.
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They also checked for a history of asthma or related allergies, and performed immune-system tests .
work
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But ministers want to tighten the rules to ensure only people unable to perform any sort of work would qualify for payment.
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He independently performed work that required about two minutes of his time.
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In return he performed clerical work for the secretaries themselves.
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Women have long performed police work .
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There are more awards for people who have performed charitable or voluntary work .
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Exodus also prescribes death for those who defile the Sabbath or perform any work on that day.
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Exercise and its physical demands Can the body perform physical work equally well at all times of the 24 hours?
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They learned from their experiments that performing the actual work took in total only 90 minutes.
■ VERB
continue
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The guardian must continue to perform his other duties but can not give instructions to the child's solicitor.
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His music will continue to be performed for a very long time.
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Our life operations also continue to perform strongly.
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The pressure on Sainsbury will continue if it performs poorly, he said.
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Nowadays, apart from continuing to direct and perform , he heads the drama school of the Moscow Art Theatre.
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Alvin relented, however, and Moore continued to perform with the company through the tour.
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Cruises had continued to perform well.
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As might be expected, both films continue to perform well at the box office.
require
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The simplest involves racing down a mountain, while the most complicated requires you to perform tricks on an obstacle course.
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This is a different basic assumption than what is required for a peak performing team.
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Stamina, flexibility, sharp reflexes and general physical fitness are required to perform the fighting movements with ease.
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Then, the skills required to perform these tasks are identified.
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Timber cladding also requires the householder to perform regular maintenance, as described above.
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Finally, the Pennsylvania statute requires every facility performing abortions to report its activities to the Commonwealth.
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The children are required to perform these actions as they hear the teacher's instructions.
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They seemed to require favorable weather to perform faithfully.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the performing arts
work/perform miracles
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We're relying on Foster performing miracles out on the football field today.
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A hired hand who worked miracles and shared what little he had with those few who were less fortunate.
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And she has already been known, you tell me, to work miracles .
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Cloughie has performed miracles with limited resources at his disposal.
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Even if animosity worked miracles in bringing about good grades, would it be worth it?
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If he can work miracles in me, you have no problem.
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People actually believe he performs miracles .
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Whereas for me she works miracles .
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Why should anyone mind a person working miracles ?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Before every concert, she worries about how well she will perform .
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Perez is currently performing in "The Nutcracker."
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Rubin says he will resign when he is no longer able to perform his duties.
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Russell's one-woman show, Shirley Valentine, was first performed by Pauline Collins.
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She still gets very nervous about performing in public.
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Students perform increasingly difficult tasks as the course continues.
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Surgery was performed Friday to correct the heart defects.
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The children perform a Christmas pantomime every year.
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The opera was performed in over 100 cities.
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The operation was performed by a team of surgeons at Addenbrookes Hospital.
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The orchestra will be at the Festival Hall tonight, performing a selection of works by Russian composers.
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The ship's captain performed the wedding ceremony.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally, the trio hits the stage tomorrow night to perform Sun, Moon and Feather.
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In Dianetics, a workmanlike job of clearing away the debris in and around the machine is performed.
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One of the most demanding things for this choir is the physical stamina required to perform for an hour.
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She performed her share of administrative duties efficiently.
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That language can perform varied functions or communicative roles is a commonplace of linguistic thought.
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Whenever a member of her household became ill, she called a medicine woman to perform a magical rite.
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While we aren't ruled by the charts, we do want our songs performed by the right people.