Sentence examples for acted as a vast from inspiring English sources

The city's daisy chain of upstate streams and reservoirs acted as a vast filter, cleansing the water as it flowed through forests and tributaries into the aqueducts that supply what a succession of mayors have called "the champagne of city water".

Its roots act as a vast net keeping soil in place.

The pasture field acts as a vast solar panel, capturing solar energy in the chloroplasts of leaves and using it to build sugars from atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Although this is still many years away, the cars' batteries could even be used to feed electricity back into the grid if needed, and so act as a vast electricity-storage system.Some countries are further ahead than others in developing smart grids.

In the Highlands, James II created two new provincial earldoms for his favourites: Argyll for the Campbells and Huntly for the Gordons, which acted as a bulwark against the vast Lordship of the Isles built up by the Macdonalds.

Lugard's main fault as an administrator was an unwillingness to delegate responsibility, but the variety of the conditions and the vast distances acted as a check on this fault.

The new minister of education, Mori Arinori, acted as a central figure in enforcing a nationalistic educational policy and worked out a vast revision of the school system.

As the radially oriented nanowires array provided a vast number of catalytic active sites, which lowered the energy barrier of glucose redox and acted as a media to boost the electron transfer, the detection potential was largely decreased.

It acted as a form of welfare.

One man acted as a lookout.

Gertie acted as a switch.