Sentence examples for functioning only as from inspiring English sources

Searches on various car-shopping Web sites for Saab dealers in my area yielded listings for dealerships that had already closed or were functioning only as service centers.

They enjoy their liquor more easily than they do their women (with the exception of Tara, the women here stay in the kitchen or under the sheets, functioning only as subjects of lust or irritation) and in general are miserable.

Many critics have asserted that Tarantino's characters are hollow, cartoonish figures (Forster's and Grier's characters are exceptions), functioning only as hooks on which various clever jokes can be hung.

Yet, he also emphasizes how artistic status is somewhat permanent: "The Rembrandt painting remains a work of art, as it remains a painting, while functioning only as a blanket" (1978h, 69).

In addition, we identified two other previously uncharacterized HD-GYP PDEs, VCA0210 and VCA0931, both functioning only as PDEs to linearize 3′3′-cGAMP.

The ErbB3 cell-surface receptor, historically overlooked due to its perceived lack of catalytic activity, has been thought to be inert, functioning only as a scaffolding partner for other more active receptors.

In other words, the Kursk and nine other huge nuclear submarines could function only as long as they could avoid accidents.

And different from the distant military threats of the Cold War, are we now exposed to threatening systems which seem to function only as long as they are deeply interwoven and are interfering with a civil society's private communication.

Second, brokers should be allowed to function only as agents, not as dealers.

The United States military can function only as an extension of a free and open society.

In general, dispose of anything that functions only as a rest or a bridge.