Example sentences of "[det] desire [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my excited state , as the trees close over my head , I see this kind of thinking , this desire to reshape the world into something reassuring , as having many applications . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So , unlike the search stage , there is not the same desire to portray the defendant as a sex maniac . |
| 4 | Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience . |
| 5 | The online catalogue was a spin-off which did not stem from any desire to serve the user better . |
| 6 | The Bank 's shareholders have welcomed the institution 's own desire to improve the implementation of its projects . |