Sentence examples for only auxiliary from inspiring English sources

Battles were fought mostly by hordes of foot soldiers, most of them commoners, aided by cavalry units; war chariots apparently served only auxiliary roles, probably as mobile commanding platforms or perhaps as carriers.

It has 106 active members; patrols Central Park on Monday & Wednesday evenings, & the Zoo area on Sunday afternoons; is the only auxiliary unit in the city authorized to go on mounted & motor patrols as well as on foot patrols; & is the only unit to seek new members through newspaper ads.

That such a stream of tender intimacy could also be put to the use of venerating the French way of life was a happy coincidence that led to Être et Avoir (the only auxiliary, or "helping", verbs in French, you see) being a massive box-office hit in its own country.

I should have been more specific: Latin does not have modal auxiliary verbs such as English can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would; the only auxiliary (but non-modal) verb in Latin is esse (to be) which is used to form the present perfect, future perfect and past perfect passive tenses of regular transitive verbs, and corresponding forms of deponent and semi-deponent verbs.

Builders and fathers are true efficient causes of building and insemination, but they are only auxiliary efficient causes of the existence of buildings and children.

The claim that builders and fathers are only auxiliary efficient causes of the existence of buildings and children invites us to investigate the true causes of their existence.

Thus, it is clear that the paraxial angles in equation (4) are really only auxiliaries, and they can be readily eliminated, giving the object image distances for paraxial rays: and It is frequently as important to determine the size of an image as it is to determine its location.

Note if there is only one auxiliary variable or few categorical auxiliary variables, say two, then there is no need to fit the two working PH models.

Our data are thus in accordance with a direct role for SA and ABA in O3-induced cell death while JA, ET and NO probably act only in auxiliary signalling pathways, which stabilize and amplify the primary signal without excluding a role for SA and ABA in these auxiliary signalling pathways [3], [11], [75].

Ornamentum, he claims, is only an "auxiliary brightness," the quality and extent of which will depend essentially on what is appropriate and seemly.

Julian Schnabel is believed to be the richest artist working in New York today (there are waiting lists for his paintings), so I am not surprised to learn — when Sischy takes me on a visit to his studio on White Street — that this is only an auxiliary studio to the main one, on Twentieth Street.