Example sentences of "[adv prt] the function " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reads as a separate vertical volume and without being an actual pedestal , it takes on the function of a pedestal . |
| 2 | In cases where the respondent is a non-governmental body , it may be possible to ask whether there is evidence that if the respondent had not taken on the function in question , the government would have . |
| 3 | A distinction between the state , as the institution which carries on the function of government , and the government as the politicians currently in office , makes it possible to oppose policies without denying legitimacy , or even to challenge the legitimacy of particular ministerial procedures , without confronting the constitution as a whole . |
| 4 | Prussian authorities party took over the function of imperial authorities . |
| 5 | When the civilian contract is in operation from July 1993 , Topcliffe will also take over the function of the RAF 's Chipmunk-equipped Elementary Flying Training School , currently based at RAF Swinderby in Lincolnshire . |
| 6 | To a great extent eyes are able to take over the function of keeping us upright because we are able to orientate ourselves by seeing our own position in relation to the world around . |
| 7 | Their bodies have become greatly flattened , their pectoral fins enlarged into undulating lateral triangles that have taken over the function of locomotion . |
| 8 | This is because all possible fictions of scientific progress are virtual in present-day technology which has taken over the function of ‘ productive ’ simulation . |
| 9 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 10 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 11 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 12 | ‘ Poor Law ’ became ‘ Public Assistance ’ , and under the terms of the Act , Bedfordshire County Council set up a standing committee under that name to take over the functions of the former Board of Guardians . |
| 13 | This duty was helped by the fact that the general hospital units being built up in the London catchment area were already taking over the functions of the asylums . |
| 14 | The UAB provided a model that enabled central government to take over the functions of the poor law agencies . |
| 15 | The construction industry 's authority should remain a statutory body while the Engineering Training Authority should be allowed to take over the functions of the old engineering industry training board . |
| 16 | Among the presidential powers was the appointment of the Prime Minister , the president and members of the Supreme Court , the prosecutor general , the Speaker of the National Assemby and the president of the Senate , who would take over the functions of President in the event of the post suddenly being vacated . |
| 17 | well the the have a training roll and it may well be that the will be able to I mean I have n't spoken for example but they have taken over the functions of the old Manpower Services Commission training agency . |
| 18 | Since I started as an engineer , and have ended as a biologist , I am struck by the similarities between the two ways of thinking , although there is the difference that an engineer starts with a function to be performed , and designs a structure to perform it , whereas a biologist often starts with a structure , and has to work out the function it is performing . |
| 19 | The first two define the person and then his behaviour but the third defines action , first , and then the qualities needed to carry out the function of truce-making . |
| 20 | The government has also failed in its responsibility for the Health and Sa Safety Executive by restricting year after year adequate resources for them to carry out the function that they were designed for . |
| 21 | The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate . |
| 22 | Gordon MacGregor , of Inverness , said he did not believe the unit would be re-opened to carry out the function conference wanted . |
| 23 | For , like Attlee before him , Churchill originally had it in mind to curb the Treasury by parcelling out the functions of economic policy-making to a team of ministers , of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be a member , but not an over-mighty one . |
| 24 | Indeed , all that remains today of the old inherent rights are the power to control the method of carrying out the functions which Parliament from time to time give to the local authorities and the power to make rules as to the conduct of the meetings of the local authority . |
| 25 | One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management . |
| 26 | Paragraph 2 sets out the permissible exclusions from investigation , and paragraphs 3 to 5 set out the functions of the adjudicator . |
| 27 | One hundred and seventy-five people is the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could produce between us of the numbers required to carry out the functions of the new independent HMI . |
| 28 | In the meantime , the South African Reserve Bank ( the South African central bank ) would continue to carry out the functions of a central bank . |
| 29 | Newly created " executive delegations " would carry out the functions of the dissolved councils . |
| 30 | The NP would retain its earlier proposals for a transitional government with a two-chamber parliament [ see p. 38798 ] , but would propose an executive council to replace the state president and carry out the functions of the head of state and head of government . |