According to my grammar book it can. (耳から覚える日本語能力試験文法トレーニングN2). Its given as a subsection to ばかりに but doesn't give any further information in the difference between verbた or verbたい. (The fact it has its own section makes me think there is some missing subtle nuance) The two examples in the book are: 彼女は人目会いたいばかりに、駅で何時間も彼女を待った。 彼女はAくんに会いたくないばかりに、仮病を使って学校を休んだ。
I will check this out when I get a chance to jump into my super big grammar text - if I were just to read these and was forced to guess what they meant, I would think one of the two: 1)It is strengthening the power of the want to do that action 2)Emphasizes that they did something (second half of the sentence) rather unusual (or beyond normal) *just* because they did(not) want to do the action (first half of the sentence.
But yea, I will look this up for you. Failing that, I will ask the 国語 teacher at the school.
Found it. It means: という理由だけで - which is pretty close to my second guess. What they do in the second half of the sentences is done just for the single reason that takes the form of the たい.
As soon as I can think of a more succinct way of phrasing that, I will add it (as a new page) !
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