Sentence examples for may have functioned from inspiring English sources

One person close to the Dutch health authorities expressed concern that companies under investigation may have functioned like money launderers who move their transactions through several companies.

Live streaming may have functioned better as a feature of Twitter, as well, or instead as a separate app, the way Facebook Live works.

While the metaphorical social contract may have functioned for several decades, in recent years calls to radically update or retire it completely have grown[37].

Although the first "lens" may have functioned relatively poorly, it is only a matter of incremental adaptive changes to improve its functioning to the level seen in modern camera-type lens eyes.

Current gaps in our conceptual framework of early genetic systems make it difficult to imagine how a stable RNA genome may have functioned and how the transition to a DNA genome could have taken place.

A high frequency of carabid beetles suggests that the spring may have functioned as a pitfall trap, and correlated well with the relative inorganic to organic compound composition of the ground conditions.

Octopamine may have functions of its own in the central nervous system of mollusks.

With longer linkers and insertion of extra sequence in ZF2, ZF1 3 may have functions other than DNA binding.

In addition, not all AMPPs appear to be expressed at microbicidal levels in vivo, suggesting that at least some may have functions other than being directly protective.

NFRs in non-promoter regions (including coding regions) may have functions that have not been identified.

Others may have functions unrelated to transcription, such as chromosome structural regulation, replication or DNA repair [21].