The phrase "a function of life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that plays a role or serves a purpose in the context of life or living organisms.
Example: "Adaptation is a function of life that allows species to survive in changing environments."
Alternatives: "an aspect of life" or "a role in life".
They are a function of life in Australia".
"Climate change is real … but these fires are certainly not a function of climate change, they are just a function of life".
It's partly a function of transportation, jobs, the difficulty of commuting, or whatever, but it's also a function of life style.
He saw individual life as the fundamental reality: reason as a function of life is substituted for absolute reason, and for absolute truth he substituted the perspective of each individual ("I am I, and my circumstance").
When Prime Minister Abbott says that bushfires are a "function of life in Australia" he's clearly correct, but to declare so confidently that bush fires are not linked to climate change in the face of so much evidence to the contrary, suggests denial.
But these fires are certainly not a function of climate change - they're just a function of life in Australia".
Individual egg production is a function of life-history parameters and the instantaneous harvest rate, f.
Perhaps the scale of New York creates a sense of anonymity, or maybe it is just a function of living life stacked on top of one another, but after midnight in the city, revelers and the people who prey on them seem to worry little about public misbehavior.
We expect that, if anything, this should increase the slope of a relationship between maximum life span as a function of mean life span: short-lived species invest more in early reproduction and therefore may senesce at younger ages relative to their mean life span compared to long-lived species.
Plots in the main diagonal of each figure present boxplots of estimation errors of each of the methods as a function of the life expectancy at birth in the full life table.
Since health is a function of length of life and quality of life, the QALY was developed as an attempt to combine the value of these attributes into a single index number.
