The phrase "alone functioning" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to describe something that operates independently or without assistance, but it is better to use more conventional phrasing.
Example: "The device is alone functioning without any external support."
Alternatives: "operating independently" or "functioning on its own."
There is little, if any, electricity, let alone functioning movie theatres.
At the same time as these developments in the form of philosophical/speculative thought, philosophy also becomes itself as the enterprise of reason alone, functioning independently of theology in the arts faculty.
Do you think some of these places would still be open, let alone functioning, without huge injections of charity cash?" "Come on –" "Go on, then.
If security training is seen as a stand alone function it will limit staff's understanding of security and therefore limit informed security practices.
China has spent billions of dollars building up its internet firewalls, in addition to developing policies that make it effectively impossible for Western internet companies to compete in its market, let alone function at all.
It also appears that neither signaling cascade alone functions as the permissive factor for non-retinal to eye conversion.
As predicted, the N-domain of the fusion protein alone was shown to act as a mitochondrial targeting signal, whereas the C-domain alone functions as an export signal.
Although most prokaryotes and eukaryotes require ATPase loader for loading helicases to origin DNA, archaea do not have a specific loader for helicase, but instead the initiator protein alone functions as the loader (Barry & Bell 2006).
Regardless the value of their stand alone function, as a networked infrastructure they are far more valuable than the sum their independent features".
The WikiLeaks revelations expose the extent to which the US and its allies see no real prospect of turning Afghanistan into a viable state, let alone a functioning democracy.
So many judges are taking themselves out of the game because of personal conflicts that it's questionable whether the Fifth Circuit could field a golf foursome, let alone a functioning appellate panel to hear cases.
