The part of a sentence "act was performed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to an action that was done. For example, "The act was performed with great success."
She may have a history of psychological problems, the police said, but the act was performed without her consent.
The headline act was performed by Andrew Strauss, who sweated it out for over two hours in heat that touched 43C (110F) before retiring on 74 and spending 15 minutes on a saline drip.
The director himself seems happy now to be classed as an entertainer, regardless of his provocative track record (one of his typical but lesser-known scripts, Epitaph for the Official Secrets Act, was performed in workshop at the RSC and goaded the establishment by telling the David Shayler story sympathetically).
There are many contexts in which Buddhism seems to emphasize the intention with which an act was performed much more than the benefit or harm that actually resulted.
Situations were analysed in order to design the classification of gratitude which took into consideration the relationship between interlocutors, and the object and/or the action for which this speech act was performed.
The act was performed as part of a promotional launch for Pepsi Max's #LiveForNow campaign.
One witness said the gunfire had been aimed at the crowd as an opening act was performing.
I got to the venue while the opening act was performing.
This depends both on the skill of a given performance and on the frequency with which the act is performed.
When a deliberate act is performed before an audience, it's theater.
"You owe me!" The hidden cameras show a lot of negotiation, nervous laughter and explicit fondling, but cut away before any X-rated sexual act is performed.
