Example sentences of "a desire [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , this may create no problems because the accountant may have been motivated by interest and a desire to improve his own efficiency at work but problems could arise later if the accountant moves to another firm or discovers that his program is commercially viable . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that if you have a desire to test your horticultural skills in growing pears then a warm south wall is the ideal for the support of spur-pruned and carefully trained trees . |
| 3 | All three Synods have some common features , a desire to be attentive to the circumstances of today 's world , a desire to deepen our mutual understanding of what it means to be the church , following our different callings and collaborating in our common mission , and a call to renew our sense of being an evangelising church . |
| 4 | Such motivation may derive from the wish to control their own destinies ; the wish to break free from the shackles of group ownership and bureaucratic constraints ; or from a desire to save their own jobs and the jobs of their workforce . |
| 5 | But it is presumably these later criticisms , made long after his emancipation from Wagner , that inspired Elisabeth to explain away the Wagnerian connection as merely secondary ; while her claims about her brother 's real intention to produce a " large " book about Greece ( and nothing but Greece ) would seem to be prompted by a desire to enhance his scholarly image ; for no other kind of book ( she decided ) would have satisfied his " scholar 's conscience . " |
| 6 | Within the Cabinet , it was , paradoxically , Snowden — usually regarded as a sea-green incorruptible on the issue of free trade — who , overcome by hatred of Labour and a desire to smash his old party , appeared to relish the idea of an early election in which Labour would go down to defeat . |
| 7 | A middle-aged man recalled his feelings of being ‘ the only 12-year-old queer in Great Britain ’ and a girl confided a desire to snog her best friend . |
| 8 | Under the genial exterior lay a considerable vanity , and a desire to have his own way . |
| 9 | ECOLOGICAL Development , an organisation set up to promote environmentally-friendly housing , are looking for anyone with a desire to build their own home in a ‘ Green Village ’ . |