Sentence examples for but instead act as from inspiring English sources
In the Netherlands, GPs do not work in hospitals but instead act as gatekeepers.
If that's the case, the iPod touch may not be on its way out, after all, but instead act as a complimentary device to the iPad.
A crucial implication is that bond funds, which had provided the traditional "safe harbor" investment – moderate capital gains with income – may no longer serve that purpose but instead act as a drag on portfolio values.
Common and HubHaus, for example, are part of a growing spate of companies that don't acquire buildings but instead act as property managers — Common in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.; and HubHaus in a dozen California cities. Merchant said her startup was born of her own experience, living in a seven-bedroom house that had so much energy, an eighth tenant asked to live in the garage.
The scores rarely form the basis of decisions about patients but instead act as a support to those decisions.
These disordered proteins do not bind their substrates as conventional chaperones, but, instead, act as physical barriers against unfavorable interactions and are, therefore, referred to as molecular shields.
On the other hand, investors may be concerned not that SWFs will use their investment power to act politically, but that they will instead act as dumb money that, despite a large position in the company's stock, the SWF determines that it should act passively in order to avoid scrutiny by regulators in jurisdictions in which the SWF invests.
Interestingly, as they do not possess the basic domain, ID proteins do not directly bind to DNA and, instead, act as dominant negative antagonists of class A bHLH transcription factors.
The close-packed Σ3 GB neither traps H nor enhances its diffusion, but instead acts as a two-dimensional diffusion barrier.
Yet even though the web has enabled us to expand our output, The Economist does not try to cover everything, but instead acts as a filter for our readers.
Last year officials eased the "material support" rule under US immigration law that was designed to prevent terrorist sympathisers from entering the US but instead acted as a dragnet, ensnaring Syrians with no real connection to terrorism.
