Sentence examples for past functions from inspiring English sources

Residents has associated these buildings with the past functions and development of the city.

As the city places wifi hotspots in public parks and boulevards, these areas are becoming new zones of congregation that draw on their past functions as public meeting points to serve their new purpose as areas to connect with social media.

It is in a 17th-century building whose past functions include being a private residence, coffee and chocolate warehouse, and even a football club.

Second, smart institutions are forward-looking in their operation rather than deriving from their past functions and purpose in contrast to most generic institutions.

The evolutionary history of the vault MVP should help identify possible past functions and illuminate current thoughts on function.

Today, its past function is hard to imagine.

How do these voices from the past function in our present/their future?

Politics in Thailand has in the past functioned via relatively weak coalition governments deferring to the holy trinity of the army, the bureaucracy and the monarchy.

I suggest that questions about the past function of music are unlikely to be answered definitively and are thus a poor choice as a research focus for biomusicology.

Abrupt cuts from his characters' befuddled present to their deep past function both as narrative and empathetic device, conveying the sickening ellipses of memory, the seepage of vocabulary, the bewilderment.

Two modes of uncovering the past function side by side here: the work of excavation, of unearthing palace and temple and tomb, and, no less dramatic, the gradual disclosure of Obermann's past and the tissue of deception that surrounds it.