Sentence examples for being ancillary to from inspiring English sources

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Stationery is associated with dull-witted anal retentiveness, being ancillary to more important tasks.

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Still, Mr. Powell sometimes seems to resent suggestions that he is ancillary to the peace effort.

At first, 20-somethings from programs like that were ancillary to the PieLab 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.

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.

But even Nabokov admitted that fine writing is ancillary to the mysterious work of enchanting the reader into a state of "curiosity, tenderness, ecstasy".

Putting the museum elsewhere, they say, could send a message that the story of black Americans is ancillary to the central narrative of American history.

The sunflower farmers are expected to see similar benefits — but PepsiCo insists those benefits are ancillary to the business rationale for the program.

Eliot's career as editor was ancillary to his main interests, but his quarterly review, The Criterion (1922 39), was the most distinguished international critical journal of the period.

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