Sentence examples for an ancillary function from inspiring English sources

I never quite got Marcie or Franklin, mid-60s additions who seemed to serve an ancillary function.

These structures may instead have an ancillary function (e.g. enhancing signal efficacy or modifying information content).

Another official said that if the U.S. insisted on running Iraq itself while having the U.N. serve only an "ancillary" function, "we are quite prepared to confine ourselves to a humanitarian role and wish you the best of luck".

In "Zac's Haunted House," recognizable characters, so far as they exist at all, serve an ancillary function to patterns and themes; they mostly help to illustrate the claustrophobic logic of the house.

Unlike the mythical municipalities cited in I Love Paris, Chicago, New York, New York, A Foggy Day in London Town, or even Kansas City, where the city itself is either the subject of, or the inspiration for, the song, Winslow, Arizona, serves but an ancillary function in Take It Easy.

Curiously, the sole example of a truly universal location procedure that is going to become a de facto standard is the one embedded as an ancillary function into the fourth generation of cellular networks through a dedicated ranging channel.

The existence of a member of the ISG12 gene family in Dictyostelium discoideum, which does not possess the IFN system, combined with evidence that some family members in higher eukaryotes are not IFN-responsive (at least in some cell types), suggests that IFN stimulation plays an ancillary role in ISG12 gene function, and is not a defining characteristic.

The nobility, growing economically dependent on princely service, adapted itself to an essentially ancillary function at court and in the military.

These results indicate that the inactivation of Perforin-2 is not a secondary or ancillary function of Cif.

The conformity of an entire team doing the same moves and ancillary function on which it was founded, undermine the potential for dramatization available to other sports.

The frequency regulation ancillary function of the dual-BESS scheme [3] has been proposed in this paper.