The phrase "desirous of having" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to suggest that someone is eager to have or acquire something. For example, "The students were desirous of having more time to work on the project."
They didn't think about it because they were so desirous of having those things".
After being confronted with the actual probabilities of specified perinatal complications associated with a twin pregnancy, women were less desirous of having a twin pregnancy (median Likert score decrease from 4 to 3, P <.001) than they had originally expressed.
However the loyal good people in that region are desirous of having martial law declared and would bless you if you would hang 100 men a day for a week.
The trees are to be used to adorn Hart's and Riker's Islands and he is especially desirous of having some of the trees brighten up Potter's Field, on Hart's Island.
Such an one is sure to be temperate and the reverse of covetous; for the motives which make another man desirous of having and spending, have no place in his character.
It was in fact adopted for bad ends, not for good; indeed their conduct is such as to make them by no means desirous of having allies present to witness it, or of having the shame of asking their concurrence.
In particular, the Americans were finding it a problem to muster nationals willing to appear in their film — an interesting phenomenon, considering how desirous the average Japanese is of having himself photographed.
COWAN: I am really desirous to have a legal definition of "citizenship of the United States".... Is the child of the Chinese immigrant in California a citizen?
That same year, the colonist Samuel Maverick, "desirous to have a breed of Negroes," attempted to create slaves through rape.
Dion frequently entertaining the king upon this subject, and, as occasion offered, repeating some of the philosopher's sayings, Dionysius grew impatiently desirous to have Plato's company, and to hear him discourse.
A particular kind of economic populism, which asserts the ongoing relevance of the old patterns of extraction and growth, is substituted for serious consideration of what kind of future the community has, in a world less desirous of what it has to offer.
