Example sentences of "in [noun sg] was [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives ' original goal in opposition was to stabilize the total public spending figure in real terms at its 1977 level and for that total to fall as a share of GDP as the economy grew . |
| 2 | His purpose in writing was to recount the human stories of all his fellow parishioners and their ancestors and to set them against the physical environment and administrative framework of the place where they lived . |
| 3 | Doctor Who , though , was not going to be a straight children 's serial , since its main aim in life was to capture the family audience between Grandstand and Juke Box Jury . |
| 4 | Certainly the Mendoza family 's ambition in life was to beat the O'Briens . |
| 5 | In the 1950s John Wain proposed that the task of the Movement in verse was to consolidate the tradition of Eliot and Pound . |
| 6 | Zimmerman 's usual remedy for the resulting gaps in conversation was to introduce the topic of the Russian army , against whom French and Germans joined in inveighing with equal venom . |
| 7 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |