Sentence examples for be functional in that from inspiring English sources

L. 1287, 1297 (2001) (explaining that standards of review should be functional, in that they should serve as a "useful tool that aids the court in deciding the fiduciary duty issue" rather than merely "signal the result or outcome").

In animals, these structures were shown to be functional, in that they were able to filter blood and produce dilute urine.

This may be functional in that they feel they don't possess the experience or skills, but also emotional, such as a sense of low confidence in their abilities.

This three-tier system was functional in that the economy needed clever, skilled people to do the top layer of manual jobs; managers to organise and innovate; and an elite to do the higher brainwork.

It is functional in that is based on collective movements and patterns, but there is room for improvisation and freedom," added Karlsen.

This was a popular fertility dance performed outdoors at plantation fairs and other festivals, and was functional in that it allowed women to show off to men, and more rarely, vice versa.

We further show that the complex is functional in that R-Ras and FLNa expressing melanoma cells demonstrate significant increased migration.

In addition, the GI protein fusions to these epitope tags were functional in that they could rescue the late flowering phenotype of gi-2 mutants in LD [ 15].

Vauleon et al. [ 21] showed that the 61 A/G polymorphism was functional, in that the G allele promoter was 40% more active than the A variant (p < 0.001).

These hybrid receptors are functional, in that they bind IGF-1 with high affinity and insulin with somewhat lower affinity [ 23, 24], and display IGF-1-induced autophosphorylation both in vitro and in situ[ 24, 25].

Interestingly, a recent study has shown that the cytochrome c maturation system in those organisms cannot produce a correct version of a CXXCH-containing cytochrome [32], thus adding to the evidence that a system distinct from HCCS is functional in that group of organisms and that HCCS needs the entire CXXCH motif for optimal performance.