The phrase "perform an important function" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when discussing the role or purpose of something. For example: - "The heart performs an important function in pumping blood throughout the body." - "The CEO's job is to perform an important function in leading the company to success." - "Education systems perform an important function in preparing students for the workforce."
Unlike disused offices, which have been converted into housing and have contributed new homes and helped breath new life into previously deserted areas, retail outlets pop up in many smaller residential locations where stores perform an important function for the community.
These results suggest that the copolymers perform an important function as weak anchoring surfaces for nematic LCs.
We believe that they can become wound healing fibroblasts and perform an important function in the repair of skin dermis after injury.
By pre-establishing these "take-out" dimensions they perform an important function in allowing the standard piping system design to proceed long before the actual purchase of the components.
The GOP claim that the student lenders perform an important function by using their own money and sparing the government's resources has long since ceased to be true.
"These people who run our banks are not magicians they are not wizards, they are human beings who are paid an outrageous salary to perform an important function which is to manage the people's money around the world".
But she is performing an important function: paying "careful attention to the achievements of others," in Ms. Gilman's words, the kind of attention that's hard to sustain in more current forms of media.
But Jeffrey S. Lena, a California lawyer representing the Holy See, said that while Mr. Anderson had performed an important function — "He has forced some dioceses to acknowledge that there had been shortcomings" — his legal maneuvers against the Vatican tended to operate from a misreading of the how the church is organized.
The SRS has performed an important function in preventing large amounts of sediment from reaching and filling a reach of the Cowlitz River farther downstream and thus preventing serious seasonal flooding in communities along that river.
The compression strength and chemical stability of the TOBC/SA composites were increased compared with the SA hydrogel, which indicated that TOBC performed an important function in enhancing the structural, mechanical and chemical stability of the composites.
Empirical research on a sample of Portuguese NTBFs has shown that these firms have indeed performed an important function by accessing new technological knowledge — both from local public research and from more advanced countries — which they further developed, turned into marketable applications and commercialised.
