The phrase "take over the functions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to assume control or responsibility for performing tasks or duties previously done by someone else. Example: After the manager resigned, John was asked to take over the functions of leading the team and making important decisions.
This restructured assembly would also take over the functions of the UN Security Council which, as Monbiot says, has already largely been sidelined by US actions over Iraq.
However, as we expect corporations to take over the functions of not only the welfare state but also of humanitarian relief, "freedom as a service" makes perfect sense.
The remarkable thing about the brain – especially in someone relatively young – is that healthy parts can learn to take over the functions of damaged areas.
As these hand-held computers increasingly take over the functions of desktop and laptop computers, the company that creates the most attractive operating system software for phones becomes the one that controls the most devices.
In the past few decades, we have become very conscious of the brain's plasticity how one part or system of the brain may take over the functions of a defective or damaged one.
We have yet to hear which bodies will take over the functions of the abolished quangos, and whether they will be subsumed into government departments or other specialist organisations.
These changes may result in compensation (where preserved areas take over the function of declining regions), or might perhaps indicate a shift in the way older people perform some cognitive tasks.
The wafer-thin, 3mm square microelectronic chip has 1,500 light-sensitive pixels which take over the function of the photoreceptor rods and cones.
The ventilator, which had taken over the functions of the paralyzed respiratory centre, enabled oxygenated blood to be delivered to the heart, which went on beating.
There the jihadists have virtually taken over the functions of government, providing locals with a modicum of law and order as well as electricity and water.
The journal's study was aided, in large part, by information compiled over the last decade by the State Department of Health that statistically measured outcomes in hospitals that perform coronary artery bypass surgery, a high-risk form of open-heart surgery in which a machine temporarily takes over the functions of the patient's heart.
