Example sentences of "desire [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 2 | However , because of their desire to promote the idea of history as a scientific discipline , the Annales school have not been equally well disposed to all aspects of the past . |
| 3 | The Whig desire to promote the naturalisation of foreign immigrants , most of whom were petty tradesmen or artisans , was seen as a direct threat to the economic welfare of domestic producers . |
| 4 | I would symbolise a desire to promote the game worldwide . |
| 5 | It would be in keeping with his desire to promote the status of the professional scientist and to exclude clerical interference . |
| 6 | Publicity in the local press was discouraged by the regime ; officials insisted that this was " a strictly private visit " to take place " in absolute discretion " , and that the Shah himself had " expressed no desire to see the press " . |
| 7 | 1881 Caption — Mamma ( to Mabel , who has expressed a desire to see the boundary of Sussex and Surrey ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't have the slightest desire to see the restitution of my father 's property , ’ he added in that 1968 interview , and ‘ I was always in favour of socialism in the sense of nationalisation of major means of production . ’ |
| 9 | At Bletchley I had begun to satisfy , however pathetically and inadequately , a desire to see the world about me , but then had neither the time nor the money nor the opportunity for anything other than very restricted local journeys . |
| 10 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |
| 11 | After all , ’ the Prior continued sardonically , ‘ he has no desire to see the cake taken while his back is turned . |
| 12 | A DESIRE to sample the atmosphere of a country auction again brought me to O'Kane 's at Glenarm and my visit was not in vain . |
| 13 | But the Wordsworths ' desire to continue the acquaintance was so strong that on July 14th they rented Alfoxden House , in a village three miles off . |
| 14 | It is probable , however , that this was an exception rather than the rule — most deaf people before the start of deaf education did not marry , and those that did , like Sir John Gawdy , Sir Edward Gostwicke and Alexander Popham , all came from wealthy families where there was a desire to continue the family line and marriages were made with daughters of families that were of the landed gentry . |
| 15 | Childbearing — reproduction of ourselves , the desire to continue the family and race , and ideas of lineage are deep and complex feelings . |
| 16 | The reduction of the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) in the UK has been a target , and this indicates a desire to curb the role of government spending . |
| 17 | For David Prentice the desire to paint the landscape encompasses much more than simply an aim to record its appearance |
| 18 | The contributors to Passion have expressed the desire to support the Project not for financial gain or fame ( although these are by-products on occasion ! ) . |
| 19 | As for Galileo himself , the fateful urgency with which he mobilized the earth could reflect a genuine desire to uphold the reputation of Catholic scholarship . |
| 20 | Almost certainly linked with this reasoning , however , is the desire to preserve the field man 's credibility in the eyes of the discharger by demonstrably not tolerating a degree of pollution which may be seen as ‘ getting away with it ’ . |
| 21 | This principle stems from the desire to preserve the value of the company 's assets for the benefit of all creditors once it becomes insolvent . |
| 22 | Although the Forum praised the French government 's efforts to bring " peaceful evolution to self-determination " in the French territory of New Caledonia , its desire to monitor the situation was rebuffed by the French government . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Eva 's desire to communicate the gospel was given plenty of outlets . |
| 25 | From time to time he was instructed to raise money by conducting sales of wood from the king 's demesne , and he carried out the king 's policy regarding mining in the forest , which wavered between a desire to increase the Forest revenues and concern lest the vert be destroyed . |
| 26 | The second common motivation is the desire to increase the use of the stock — either by improving its appearance , so as to attract more users to the library , and/or by providing easier access to elements of the stock which are worthwhile , by removing the dead wood . |
| 27 | Could a man feign desire to obtain the information he wanted ? |
| 28 | Because our lord the king had great zeal and desire to redress the state of the realm in such things as required amendment for the common profit of Holy Church and of the realm ; and because the state of Holy Church had been evil kept and the prelates and religious persons of the land grieved many ways , and the people otherwise entreated than they ought to be , and the peace less kept , and the laws less used , and the offenders less punished than they ought to be . |
| 29 | The desire to disprove a false idea is as valid a basis for a piece of research as the desire to establish the truth of a new set of ideas . |
| 30 | Disraeli , much influenced by the desire to secure the support of the new working-class voters ( mainly better-off skilled men ) , introduced measures during his conservative government of 1874–80 to improve the status of trade unions , public health , education and housing . |