The phrase "being secondary" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe something that is less important than something else. For example, "Although I enjoy playing sports, my education remains my primary focus, with athletics being secondary."
"I didn't mind being secondary to Ann Todd," she said.
His artistry seems more eloquent for being secondary and economical, a byproduct of a sensitive mind.
It's a prejudice inherited from the European Renaissance that the human must occupy centre stage, everything else being secondary.
"The families back home are the No. 1 target audience, with general U.S. Navy fans worldwide being secondary," Chief Lindley said.
And it was a strange experience, to go from having one love – and I truly loved that job, it was everything to me – to that love being secondary".
Further, these finance people seem motivated only to make money for its own sake, ambitions to spend it on anything apparently being secondary or immaterial.
It was the first stadium the Giants could call their own after 50 years of being secondary tenants in baseball stadiums.
You can see this clearly in Rodchenko's question-begging, nervously vaunting credo of October 31 1934, "Photography is an Art": "From being secondary and imitating the etching, painting or carpet" - this is not a mistranslation: carpets were art objects; Gorky showed his collection to Anna Akhmatova - "photography has broken free and embarked on its own path..
However, end-user programmers regard verification and validation activities as being secondary or unnecessary for opportunistic programming tasks.
When metals are joined to glass, the principal need is usually hermeticity and mechanical strength being secondary.
The MIST software is tightly focused on efficient video streaming to mobile devices, with browser-based access being secondary.
