Sentence examples for function was as from inspiring English sources

When p53 was discovered, scientists thought its main function was as an oncogene, which causes cancer.

Apart from her leadership of the NCNW, her most visible function was as an administrator of the YWCA, whose desegregation she helped secure in the 1940s.

Update II: Looks like RT function was, as I speculated above, removed just temporarily.

According to the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, it currently functions as an Industry/Processing/Extraction - processing site, and its original historical function was as an Agriculture/Subsistence - processing site.

The Privy Council's primary function was judicial, but it also acted as a body of advisers to the king and as a result its secondary function was as an executive in the absence or minority of the monarchy.

Its primary function was judicial, but it also acted as a body of advisers to the king and as a result its secondary function was as an executive in the absence or minority of the monarchy.

This function is as old as architecture itself.

In fine, our function is as much editorial as sanitary, and he stated unreservedly that he holds our literary judgment in the highest esteem….

For Hawley, function is as important as form.

Theories about the monument's function are as numerous as the stones themselves.

Its role in glomerular cell function is as yet undefined.