They're playing what needs to be said, rather than fulfilling a function.
But it has fulfilled a very special function for us all.
If I haven't already fulfilled my function, then it's too late now.
Then it will at least be able to start fulfilling its function.
They were fulfilling functions of political, social and religious order.
And it's only as we fulfil our function with the body.
The existence of a thing was explained, if it fulfilled a function.
The area was not developed at the time of the station's existence so having fulfilled its political function it closed, in 1859.
Thus the press had the key role in fulfilling the trial's pedagogical function.
British film practice, to fulfil its potential function, must be more than a business enterprise.