Example sentences of "desire to see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | Other commentators have been quite frank about their desire to see the Germans run the show . |
| 4 | 1881 Caption — Mamma ( to Mabel , who has expressed a desire to see the boundary of Sussex and Surrey ) . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |
| 8 | After all , ’ the Prior continued sardonically , ‘ he has no desire to see the cake taken while his back is turned . |
| 9 | And having reached the decision , he felt a strong desire to see the stones again ; to understand their meaning . |