The phrase "carrying the functions of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to say that a person, group, or thing performs the duties of something else. For example, "The new mayor is carrying the functions of the previous mayor into the new year."
Indeed, a part's eye-view on the wire that carries the function of the power source suggests a branching tree as its parsimonious phylogeny (Fig. 7).
Whether PEA constitutes a building block of yeast membranes or carries the function of signaling lipid in these lower eukaryotes remains to be determined.
Since the only form of a SECIS binding protein in these organisms (see below), which are known to possess selenoprotein genes, is SBP2L, it is highly probable that SBP2L is carrying out the functions of SBP2 in these cases.
The legislation obliges us to carry out the functions of Arena and one of those is to provide financial assistance, so we would have to continue to do that to some level," he said.
Empey will continue to carry out the functions of leader until a replacement is elected at a meeting of party members planned for Belfast's Waterfront Hall on 22 September.
They worked independently of one another and received the award for showing how genetic information is translated into proteins, which carry out the functions of a living cell.
He also suggested that the two companies might have been a victim of efforts by conservative ideologues to eliminate them, adding that some kind of successor institution must carry out the functions of Fannie and Freddie for the housing market to function smoothly.
To take account of this I have, following a meeting with party colleagues and one with the deputy first minister, asked the minister for enterprise Arlene Foster MLA to carry out the functions of the office of first minister for a short period.
This system replaces the previous constitutional provisions, which Ben Ali used to remove Bourguiba, in which the Prime Minister was responsible for determining the president's incapacity based on from seven doctors' certifications that the president was no longer competent to carry out the functions of his office.
