The phrase "function as a means of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe how something serves a specific purpose or role in achieving an outcome.
Example: "The new software will function as a means of streamlining our workflow and improving efficiency."
Alternatives: "serve as a method of" or "act as a way to".
It suggests that Kalanick initially saw the HR function as a means of recruiting staff to support fast growth.
He joked that Brazil's population of 200 million would be reduced by half if homosexuality were encouraged because "the excretory system" does not function as a means of reproduction.
Panegyric's function as a means of extolling the virtues of the tribe and its leaders was easily transferred, albeit within a very different political and social context, from the pre-Islamic period to the Islamic.
TIR SHG compliments measurements of the electrolyte surface excess and can function as a means of measuring the relative concentration of electrolytic species responsible for the potential drop across the electrochemical double layer.
However, it also stems from the consistency of the contributors' multidisciplinary approach and the recurrence of certain themes, notably the exploitation of buildings or other artifacts for political purposes and their function as a means of establishing, confirming or reformulating national identity.
An argument may, for example, function as a means of instilling fear or hope or disapprobation.
While this analysis naturally focused on genes of known function as a means to biological interpretation, further mining of the data is likely to be fruitful.
As Michelle Alexander details in her book The New Jim Crow, our mass incarceration system functions as a means of social control in much the same way that Jim Crow laws and even slavery did.
The mask, therefore, most often functions as a means of contact with various spirit powers, thereby protecting against the unknown forces of the universe by prevailing upon their potential beneficence in all matters relative to life.
In these allegations the act was apparently performed with the pig's head resting on a colleague's lap, and functioned as a means of entry into the notorious Piers Gaveston society, supposedly posher than Bullingdon (although friends deny Cameron was ever a member of the Piers Gaveston society).
Livestock is therefore a fundamental form of pastoral capital, besides functioning as a means of production, storage, transport and transfer of food and wealth (Behnke 2008).
