Example sentences of "his desire [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Cabinet changes reflect his desire to reassure the Right while demonstrating his commitment to a more ‘ caring ’ form of Conservatism . |
| 2 | It is Slothrop who gives one kind of impetus to the novel in his desire to explain the correlation between his erections and the falling of the V-2 rockets on London ( the novel is set mainly in the last months of the Second World War ) . |
| 3 | The first official and public indication that the Soviet Union was seeking large-scale Western aid came at a press conference between Gorbachev and Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on May 22 , when Gorbachev made plain his desire to attend the July G-7 meeting . |
| 4 | It would be in keeping with his desire to promote the status of the professional scientist and to exclude clerical interference . |
| 5 | When these are violated in his painting , it is because the pictorial theory involved conflicted with his intensely visual and empirical approach , and with his desire to reconstruct the three-dimensional form of his subjects as fully as possible . |
| 6 | Venetiaan stated his desire to reform the Constitution to reduce the involvement of the army in internal affairs . |
| 7 | Despite his desire to secure the dominance of holism by equating it with social scientific explanation , Miller 's argument only sustains a weaker claim ; for his distinction between holism and individualism suggests that there is a place for both types of explanation . |
| 8 | Stein 's grey eyes mocked Stephen , who had enormous difficulty in controlling his desire to wipe the look of triumph from the manager 's arrogant face . |
| 9 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 10 | Given my right hon. Friend 's well-known views and his desire to protect the interests of the British people , I am sure that he would have found his part in the process very satisfying . |
| 11 | It was his desire to play the Senior Tour and his love of golf which has given the Notts professional the inspiration to overcome his terrible injuries and pick up where he left off a little more than a year ago . |
| 12 | Part of the reason may have been his desire to strengthen the Treasury 's hand in discussions about economic policy , particularly given Bevin 's desire to move responsibility for full employment policy to the Ministry of Labour . |
| 13 | Though often condemned as naive , his efforts to conciliate Stalin probably owed much to his estimates of American public opinion and of the likely postwar balance of power in Europe , and his desire to win the war as quickly ( and cheaply in terms of Americans lives ) as possible . |
| 14 | And when X says homosexuality is wanting to be what the other is , the other is now not the other ( opposite ) sex , but the same sex , and X , as avowed heterosexual , has described his desire to displace the male . |
| 15 | The crack widened recently after the Polish primate , Cardinal Jozef Glemp , announced his desire to end the ‘ communist-inspired ’ separation of church and state . |
| 16 | Boromir , son of the steward of Gondor , falls prey to the Ring and almost kills Frodo in his desire to have the Ring and wield it in order to do good . |