"act" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His rank was honorary, and he acted principally as the man in charge of the commissary, where rifles and powder could be bought for beaver pelts.
- The class of medicines known as diuretics acts principally to rid the body of excess fluid.
- Leukotrienes act principally on a subfamily of G protein-coupled receptors.
- For needlework, visit any of Funchal's factories, which put the finishing touches on items and act principally as showrooms, selling direct to the public.
- Peripheral chemoreceptors act principally to detect variation of the oxygen concentration in the arterial blood, whilst also monitoring arterial carbon dioxide and pH.
- It acted principally to licence and commercialise the use of publicly funded developments.
- It does however retain its links with surgery, principally acting as a charitable institution to the benefit of medical and surgical causes.
- Amphetamine and other amphetamine-type stimulants act principally to release dopamine into the synaptic cleft.
- It acts principally on the proximal phalanges, the middle and terminal phalanges being extended mainly by the interossei and lumbricales.
- According to Fu and Cullen, "Weiquan lawyers act principally out of commitment, not because of any financial concerns.
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