The phrase "function as a whole" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It typically refers to the overall purpose or role of a particular element or group within a sentence. Example: "The subject and verb must function as a whole in order for a sentence to be grammatically correct."
The writing is a web that draws you in and works on you, but webs function as a whole, not in pieces.
And together they function as a whole: one always locks the door, one always orders in cafes, one always pays, one always says yes, one always says no.
The central idea of systems analysis is based on an analogy with biology: just as the heart, lungs, and blood function as a whole, so do the components of social and political systems.
Medfone can function as "a whole front office," Rabbi Weinstein said, "including all answering, setting up appointments, screening calls for doctors to determine which ones he needs to be called in on, appointment reminders, handling prescription renewals, handling test results and conducting patient satisfaction surveys".
but it will be sufficient for our purposes to deal with the full complex function as a whole.
Defining specific brain cell types and functions is critical for understanding brain function as a whole in development, health, and diseases.
Determining novel gene functionality is critical for bringing a better understanding of how an organism functions as a whole.
This is how Bachelder's novel, which takes place over the two-day reënactment, functions as a whole: unremarkable events become, in the minds of his protagonists, fraught with symbolism, and provoke outsized passions and consequences.
With cryptocurrencies, power and authority might change hands, but this will not change how society functions as a whole.
This paper presents a novel model-based, two-loop control scheme for a particular MIPC system, where bidirectional Ćuk dc dc converters are used as the bypass converters and a terminal Ćuk boost functioning as a whole system power conditioner.
