Though the creakily mechanical exposition runs ninety minutes, into the second episode, it fulfills the function of, say, nine opening minutes in a feature.
I blessed the critic and read no further: he had fulfilled the function of filter admirably well, at once killing my interest in the subject of the review and in the review itself.
But then again, I'm just fulfilling the function of the hipster, pointing out patterns that already exist.
He never sounds like a guitarist, even when he's fulfilling the function of one.
It became part of the three-piece suit by the turn of the century, fulfilling the function of pocket-watch holder.
"Neither one would fulfill the function of a stand-alone folk art museum," she said.
The government has suggested that the existing UK Inter-Departmental Ministerial Gronp on Human Trafficking (IDMG) is 'effective in delivering change and making things happen in practice', fulfilling the function of a national rapporteur.
Most people don't think of their everyday technologies such as contact lenses and PDAs as prosthetic devices, but the basic definition of a prosthetic as a manufactured device which fulfills the function of a biological body part is applicable.
These belong to the discretion of the individual, and it is the task of government to fulfill the function of protecting the exercise of each person's right to use or misuse their freedom as he sees fit.
"Unlike the British Museum, the Hermitage was able to save its cats, which continue to fulfill the function of servants, like those of the livery in which we have dressed them," she said.
The technical obstacle is that the structure attached to the spiral drilling rod for a drilling machine could not fulfill the function of cleaning soil well.
