Sentence examples for been ancillary to from inspiring English sources
The narrator, like his creator, claims poetic license: "As for me," he says, "I became a writer, and every job I've ever held or choice I've ever made has been ancillary to this task.
Common objects had been ancillary to painting for centuries, but Duchamp took them and, with minor fillips of presentation, turned them into art.
Stationery is associated with dull-witted anal retentiveness, being ancillary to more important tasks.
Still, Mr. Powell sometimes seems to resent suggestions that he is ancillary to the peace effort.
But the nurses and secretaries may be ancillary to the companies' principal target: the speakers at these events.
"Closing time was 11pm unless you could prove that selling alcohol was ancillary to dancing or serving food," Thomas says.
However, at a law firm, the marketing and business-development function is ancillary to the core business.
The confusing issue of sex is kept at a safe distance; romantic considerations are ancillary to the fight against evil, and to the cameraderie of warriors.
But — and perhaps this will work to Ms. Peirce's advantage at the box office — such footage is ancillary to the larger story that unrolls at home.
