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Meanings of main object in English

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Usage of main object in English
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My main object in coming was to put you on your guard.
The Case and the Girl
2
He made it his main object not to give facts but impressions.
The Relation of Literature to Life
3
To nature pleasure is a mediate object, to art its main object.
Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller
4
You see, our main object this trip is neither hunting nor fishing.
Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods
5
Israel's Arab minority has been the main object of their hatred.
Reuters
6
The main object of his visit was an enormous dull-aluminum fuselage.
The new yorker
7
But in the main object of our pursuit we were disappointed.
The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans ...
8
That was my main object in wasting so much ammunition on the beast.
The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost C...
9
The main object we had in view was not yet accomplished.
The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderne...
10
Its importance is, in fact, the main object of studies of this kind.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
11
Their main object in life is to gratify their physical desires.
Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
12
But this was not my main object in writing this book.
The Worst Journey in the World / Antarctic 1910-1913
13
The main object is to keep it as compact as possible.
Talks on Manures / A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Betw...
14
You know that its main object is the capture of Belgrade.
Prince Eugene and His Times
15
But for the main object of his visitation he had little but sympathy.
The King's Achievement
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For the main object of justice is not punishment but reclamation.
The Empire of Love
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Main object through the time
Main object across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common