Example sentences of "desire [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other commentators have been quite frank about their desire to see the Germans run the show . |
| 2 | And having reached the decision , he felt a strong desire to see the stones again ; to understand their meaning . |
| 3 | In your natural desire to extol the virtues , however , your leader ( ’ Moving with the times , ’ 27 January . |
| 4 | In terms of his own objectives it was a diplomatic coup — even if the " independent " element was qualified in practice by the British desire to minimize the costs . |
| 5 | The desire to isolate the factors associated with child abuse is understandable ; social workers and other professionals could be given a list of tell-tale signs , and they could then keep a particularly close eye on families at risk . |
| 6 | More as a means of occupying his mind than out of a desire to establish the facts , Rostov began to calculate the data which governed the interlocking arcs of fire of the Tarvaras platforms . |
| 7 | There was a group of children in our sample who either because they could still remember harsh treatment at the hands of a parent , or because their parents had themselves ceased contact , deserted them , or showed no interest in them , had no desire to meet the parents or maintain a link . |
| 8 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |
| 9 | McCann suggests that the idea of having a march through the city centre to commemorate him was inspired by this desire to provoke the authorities ; but given the importance of the centenary , it is likely that some kind of parade would have been organised in any case . |
| 10 | This was accompanied by a desire to relate the feelings and their object to the wider issues of life and by a growing resentment of philology as currently practised . |
| 11 | An evident interest , shared by many of the group members , is the desire to explore the pleasures of paint coupled with an sensual delight in the decorative aspects of design — be it the tangible substance and glowing colours of woven , embroidered and printed textiles , or the flowing line of a fashion garment , or the presence of domestic artefacts . |
| 12 | I believe that , in his attitudes to politics and policies , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has an immense desire to tackle the problems of the ordinary families of this country . |
| 13 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 14 | It was Sayeeda who gave me an insatiable desire to open the doors of Oman , doors which were locked to most foreigners and needed a special key . |
| 15 | ‘ I have no desire to hear the details of this assignation , I assure you . ’ |
| 16 | The most upsetting thing was that it made her realise just how much she had been allowing him to guide her in the decision , putting her desire to leave the nurses ' home and her pleasure at Dr Entwistle 's recommendation very much in second place . |
| 17 | As the judge said , no doubt the Ledingham-Smiths were influenced by a desire to retain the accountants ' services , but this did not make the payments a preference in the absence of evidence that they would , not may , benefit the creditor . |
| 18 | Moreover , the fact that we know so much about Mozart 's early years is due entirely to Leopold 's desire to record the events in his son 's life . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The main reasons for the delay have been my interest in self-preservation , my desire to protect the members of the gang , and my fear of exacerbating the gang situation in Glasgow which was receiving nationwide attention in 1968 and 1969 . |
| 21 | And in his letter to John Major , Mattingly said ‘ Such an overwhelming desire to satisfy the demands of those who own large tracts of Scotland is hardly consistent with your ambition of creating a classless society in Britain . ’ |
| 22 | Your Lordships are motivated by a desire to carry out the intentions of Parliament in enacting legislation and have no intention or desire to question the processes by which such legislation was enacted or of criticising anything said by anyone in Parliament in the course of enacting it . |
| 23 | The desire to teach the experts a lesson took on manic proportions . |
| 24 | At the time , however , they were accepted ( indeed assiduously pored over and frequently quoted by Citrine and others ) as embodying two widely-approved aspirations : firstly , a general desire to spread the benefits of cheap electricity widely ( with the ‘ public interest ’ implicitly seen as overriding the tyranny of the profit-and-loss account ) ; and secondly ( but not entirely consistently ) the view that these economic objectives should be pursued not through political or civil service channels but by the ‘ business ’ board of a public corporation with some genuine independence . |
| 25 | Liverpool 's desire to score the goals required was resulting in a glaring lack of composure , playing into Spartak 's hands . |
| 26 | Tabitha felt a powerful desire to turn the extinguishers on them . |
| 27 | Could Jones have been urged into ‘ fast forward ’ mode in a desire to beat the chemists ? |
| 28 | Walkers who have no desire to locate the potholes of Newby Moss and refuse to be deflected from their intention to reach the top of Ingleborough can best achieve their objective by continuing upwards , guided by Grey Wife Sike across the rough and rising terrain of Ingleborough Common . |
| 29 | Here , Mr Shultz writes , was ‘ a staff con job on the president , playing on his very human desire to get the hostages released . |
| 30 | Following Bennett , we regard it as admissible to frame theories of perception ( or ‘ registration ’ ) and of ‘ proto'-belief and desire to explain the actions of certain creatures , provided their behaviour is complex enough , and subject also to the usual caveats of holistic method . |