Example sentences of "desire [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , over this section , it was not necessary to remove the existing ceiling , but a desire to emphasise the still lofty volume of this room caused the client to request the insertion of a ‘ minstrel 's gallery ’ upper level over part of this area . |
| 2 | Much of the vessel is often black , and there seems a desire to emphasise the sharply defined contours which is to remain a feature of Greek ceramics , and mutatis mutandis of Greek art in general . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They 've sent me flowers and choclates , and they 've expressed a desire to accommodate the two young men who 've done this at their own institutions |
| 5 | I would symbolise a desire to promote the game worldwide . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It would be in keeping with his desire to promote the status of the professional scientist and to exclude clerical interference . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | And having reached the decision , he felt a strong desire to see the stones again ; to understand their meaning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Other commentators have been quite frank about their desire to see the Germans run the show . |
| 13 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |
| 14 | After all , ’ the Prior continued sardonically , ‘ he has no desire to see the cake taken while his back is turned . |
| 15 | 1881 Caption — Mamma ( to Mabel , who has expressed a desire to see the boundary of Sussex and Surrey ) . |
| 16 | Policy director Stephen Locke said : ‘ This confirms all our worst fears about the manufacturers ' desire to see the UK as a high-price , high-profit market . |
| 17 | The delay was partly the result of the intervention of Philip II of Spain , who had no desire to see the English queen deposed in favour of the Catholic but pro-French claimant , Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 18 | ‘ It is a purely ideological desire to see the private sector providing regardless of whether it is appropriate or not . ’ |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | The visitors expressed a desire to see the farther end of the garden . |
| 21 | If hon. Members are dissatisfied with my list , I can also cite the example of a distinguished former Member of the House , Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith , whose principled support of devolution all his political life was , among many other factors , a proper mark of his integrity and desire to see the best government for Scotland . |
| 22 | On 18 July 1936 there had been no consensus on this question among those who joined the rebellion , beyond their unanimous desire to see the legitimate , democratically elected government removed from power . |
| 23 | The sergeant suspected that Blufton 's self-confidence sometimes crept into arrogance , a desire to treat the people around him as tools for his own gratification , although he was too in control to allow this to happen in the presence of police officers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There was therefore no desire to expropriate the Plantagenets in Aquitaine before 1294 . |
| 26 | In your natural desire to extol the virtues , however , your leader ( ’ Moving with the times , ’ 27 January . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Childbearing — reproduction of ourselves , the desire to continue the family and race , and ideas of lineage are deep and complex feelings . |
| 30 | Compliance on this occasion is advanced by the pupils ' desire to enjoy the recreational facilities , most importantly the ‘ pool ’ and table tennis . |