The phrase "act as constraints" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing factors or conditions that limit or restrict actions or decisions in a particular context.
Example: "The budget and timeline will act as constraints on the project's scope and deliverables."
Alternatives: "serve as limitations" or "function as restrictions."
As Cabinet secretaries staff up, they'll soon act as constraints on the Trump White House.
The security requirements are one of the non-functional requirements, which act as constraints on functions of the system.
As the scholars Yoosik Youm and Anthony Paik write, "Opportunities in the sex market act as constraints in the marriage market".
River engineering structures, such as bank protection or bed sills, act as constraints on the hydromorphology of rivers and limit morphodynamic processes.
The authors review factors that act as constraints against successful intercultural fire management in the Gran Sabana, including conflicting perspectives on fire use within state agencies and in indigenous communities, and propose strategies for research and communicative planning to guide future efforts for more participatory and effective fire management.
These components of the economic environment may act as constraints on firms' growth, see, for instance, Svensson (2003).
These two side attachments act as constraint for any free rotation in the sensing direction causing bending of the stalk in this direction.
In each global Newton iteration, the updated global variables P, X, and T from the previous iteration were passed to the EOS system, and acted as constraints to solve for secondary variables.
Ecological factors including exposure to predators, resource availability and reproductive competition may act as significant constraints on natural sleep patterns and warrant further investigation with free-living individuals.
These may act as production constraints: Vahan Zanoyan of the Petroleum Finance Company argues that, even if OPEC decides to produce lots more oil, it will struggle to get it to market quickly.Another factor contributing to volatility has been the oil giants' move towards just-in-time management of stocks and deliveries.
Assuming everyone agrees that textual and historical factors do act as interpretative constraints, the question is: how?
