The phrase "acts as model" is not entirely correct; it should be "acts as a model." You can use it when describing something that serves as an example or standard for others to follow.
Example: "The new software acts as a model for future developments in the industry."
Alternatives: "serves as a model" or "functions as a model."
Those supporting global governance of environmental issues are celebrating the Lacey Act as model legislation.
She fell in with the painters of the Euston Road School - William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore among them - for whom she acted as model and mistress.
Commonwealth agencies are required to act as "model litigants" whenever they are engaged in legal action action against a citizen or a company.
It reflects the pressure put on people to act as model workers and to identify with work as the most important activity in life.
The pilot, not-for-profit project is currently running seven facilities, which, Mr. Mor said, "could act as model primary health subcenters".
In light of this insight, we advocate employing our proposed probabilistic weighted pooling, instead of commonly used max-pooling, to act as model averaging at test time.
These glass-ceramic scaffolds open new perspectives for bone regenerative approaches and could act as model substrates for a more accurate investigation of bone pathologies.
The Bacchus, for which Caravaggio's moonfaced friend, the Sicilian painter Mario Minniti, acted as model, has been interpreted as a depiction of a male prostitute in down-at-heel lodgings offering a prospective client a glass of wine.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) promotes its "parent Trigger Act" as "model legislation" based on the idea of Parent Revolution leader, Ben Austin.
The example of PGUH can act as model for other hospitals in Mali and in other countries.
