The phrase "a performance was given" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event where a performance took place, often in a formal or historical context.
Example: "At the gala, a performance was given by the renowned ballet company, captivating the audience with their artistry."
Alternatives: "a performance took place" or "a performance occurred".
Students learn to write song lyrics to invent dance sequences or drama characters, and all participants will be involved in the process of creating an original piece of musical theatre, with a performance being given for family and friends at lunchtime on the last day of the project.
A special performance was given by Solange Knowles, who serves as an ambassador for the collection.
A celebratory performance was given by faculty and students of the college's Department of Music in November.
A generally positive Scotland performance was given some added shine with the first goal of the Strachan reign, courtesy of Mulgrew.
In modern times a benefit performance is given by an actor, entertainer, or company of them to benefit a charitable organization, which may sell tickets and keep the proceeds; or, less strictly, it is a performance for which a charitable organization has bought out at a discounted price and raises funds by selling tickets at a full or premium price.
After training of selected samples, a support vector machine (SVM) classifier which combined the two ICA representations is established for recognition, and a good performance is given for testing data.
The final result is listed in Table 5. Comparing with the 24 participants in GENIA task of BioNLP 2009 and historical progress of Bjorne's work, a contour performance is given in Figure 7.
A measure of robust performance is given by accounting parametric uncertainty to the nonlinear model.
Best performance is given by a novel maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation, which utilizes temporal statistics of the feature vector stream.
