Sentence examples for it would function as from inspiring English sources

There is a danger that if the Administration pursues what seems to be its course on Glass-Steagall, it would function as a kind of vaccine that keeps public suspicion of the Administration's closeness to finance at bay.

In late 1804 a Royal Engineer colonel John Brown came up with a better idea: dig a 62-foot wide canal along the north edge of the march; keep its water level high with the use of sluices; and build a military road and rampart along its north bank so that it would function as a defended moat in case of French attack.

The idea was that it would function as a self-sustaining universe housing its own shops, barbers, pharmacies, restaurants — a shopping mall of more than 100,000 square feet.

It would function as a communicating passage.

It was launched in April 2013, with the stated objective that it would function as a safety net for cases which fall out of scope for funding.

"We wanted to unify all the services for the apartments so that it would function as a single building in terms of handicap access, use of the elevator, security and such services as the boiler," Mr. Soffes said.

'I had a pretty clear vision of how the house would function as soon as I viewed it,' Mike says.

According to an interview with The New York Times, when Hinterland creators Ed Thomas and Ed Talfan were pitching the show to S4C they said it would function both as entertainment and as a way to showcase the country's culture and scenery – appealing directly to the lack of Welsh landscape and language on mainstream channels.

These directors, it seems, would function as part civic servant, part profit-minded manager.

With astronomic sums of money involved (though not in ways perceptible to viewers), the producers and the director, Richard Donner, must have been afraid even of style — afraid that it would function satirically, as a point of view (as it does in the James Bond pictures).

If the string were a holistic replicator, it would function strictly as a single unit.