I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a motive for murder (= a reason to kill someone )
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Police believe the motive for the murders was robbery.
has...ulterior motives
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He’s just being nice. I don’t think he has any ulterior motives .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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According to his model, individuals are variable and driven by many different motives .
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But in the somewhat artificial world you are creating, six different motives you may well need.
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In the end, seventeen different forms of motive power were on display along with a wide range of other railway related attractions.
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And because I knew a lot of people, you'd do things for different motives .
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Similarly, many different motives came into play, ranging from political manipulation to the purest altruism.
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Board games can enable pupils to interact and consider different viewpoints and motives at times in the past.
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Murder, petty theft and tax evasion, for instance, all have different motives and consequences.
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Different governments have different motives , depending on how radical and also how democratic they actually are.
economic
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Even the westward expansion of the United States had its economic motives .
human
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But he had no understanding of the extraordinary complexities and irrationalities of human motives , human behaviour.
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He believed that nothing can be finally known that involves human motive and need.
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About human affairs, about human motives , actions and desires.
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Moreover, there are certain mysteries that weave through life itself, human motive and human desire.
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The universally-shared human motive of rational self-interest makes human action predictable, generalisable and controllable.
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It is not just a projection of human motives on to a neutral universe.
main
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Her main motive was simple: to retrieve the ring and thereby enable Rick to make peace with his family.
other
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Wolfenden also hints at the other motives behind the widespread public indignation.
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But what other motive could there be for silence?
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The prospect of good wages and modest gains provided ample inducement to serve; but there were no doubt other motives as well.
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At the same time it is easy to see that group solidarity overrides all other loyalties and motives .
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Careful investigation had revealed no other possible motive for the killing.
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Now there were other motives being satisfied, and scores being subtly settled.
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There may, of course, be other motives in all this.
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It was an inspired piece of public relations, though more motivated by sheer pride and genuine gratification than any other motive .
personal
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What were the personal motives of the chief participants in an event? 6.
political
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A political motive was clearly bound up with this economic activity.
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The political motives that lay behind this patronage in no way detract from the superb aesthetic achievement that it produced.
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While there were clearly political motives involved, there seems no reason to doubt his sincerity.
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Much of the recent speculation has overtly political motives .
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The murders might have a political motive .
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Oddly enough, conservative extremists shared his views, largely for unrelated internal political motives .
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It is hard to tell exactly how heavily domestic political motives weighed with de Gaulle.
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They also indicate his own political motives .
possible
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This was already being discussed widely as a possible motive for the action that Orkney Islands Council had taken.
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But the possible motives for another Farrakhan event in January and February drew less favorable reviews.
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We have one possibility but the case is still under investigation and I am looking for possible motives .
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There was no official word on a possible motive .
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Weinstock has listed fourteen of the possible motives authors have for citing the work of others.
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What possible motive could this round, friendly, most amiable of men have for murder?
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Careful investigation had revealed no other possible motive for the killing.
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It was clear Mrs Baggley was, in her own way, making comments about a possible motive for Gray's murder.
primary
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In this context the primary motive is increased sales.
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The primary motive is to free the self from a life that is necessarily rendered crass and degrading by society.
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During its visit 2857 has provided the primary motive power on the railway.
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Consequently, the calendar ceased to be the primary motive for celestial observation.
real
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Jamie had no idea of her real motive for searching the dead man's rooms.
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We must beware of hysterical solutions to complex problems urged by people whose real motive is often hatred of industry and capitalism.
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She felt suddenly sickened, reminded of her real motive for taking this job with Luke.
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Questions like these dealing with real people with real motives and posing problems, can slowly help to develop understanding.
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Also, he was not going to accept it, he was going to look for a real motive for this murder.
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And Troilus immediately confesses that this was his real motive behind his defence of the present Trojan stance.
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Unbeknown to you the real motive is to question you in order to undermine your position.
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The real motive for the enforced resignations remained unclear.
strong
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The other and perhaps stronger motive for regional bloc-building is the hope of increasing collective bargaining power.
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An overwhelmingly strong motive made the ship anchor there.
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The attempt to make such distinctions clear was a strong motive behind the whole idea of formalism.
ulterior
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However, for Guangming Ribao, all her appeals to students to end the demonstrations had an ulterior motive .
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An ulterior motive for performing text recognition is to convert existing printed material into a computer format that permits further processing.
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No ulterior motive lurks behind it, but it keeps you at a distance.
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They look around for other explanations and ulterior motives .
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A member is entitled to a judgment that is free from any extraneous or ulterior motive .
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Actually, he invited me out tonight, probably with an ulterior motive .
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It was difficult to accept that Jane had no ulterior motives .
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He had to have an ulterior motive .
■ NOUN
force
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The question is the charge of gas, exploded in the cylinder head, which is the motive force of every piston-stroke.
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Resistance to change is used too often as an excuse for failure rather than a motive force for success.
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The motive force for this enthusiasm is not internationalism or an overdose of brotherly love, but the size of the market.
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Desire is a motive force , an attractive force.
power
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In the end, seventeen different forms of motive power were on display along with a wide range of other railway related attractions.
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And, of course, the motive power is inevitably steam but not, alas, genuine West Riding motive power.
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During its visit 2857 has provided the primary motive power on the railway.
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It never looks half as glamorous today, now that the motive power is diesel.
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Many fail to realise that, due to obvious lack of water for motive power , it was ever a working mill.
profit
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The absence of the profit motive as an incentive to efficiency does not adequately distinguish public and private employees.
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Worse still, they unintentionally fostered negative, adverse meanings that equated Tesseract with a profit motive that people did not trust.
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But while public provision does not preclude charitable giving, the existence of the profit motive in any service usually does.
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Spurred by the profit motive , the shops tackled problems with a vengeance.
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The Conservatives have a tendency to believe that planning decisions can be taken on the profit motive .
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But not all such changes are driven by the profit motive .
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Nothing mattered except the profit motive .
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Society and the church used to condemn the profit motive as sinful and wrong.
■ VERB
kill
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About the motive for killing him Place seemed less clear.
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There was the motive for the killing !
provide
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Wycliffe had no idea but surely not enough to provide a motive for murder.
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During its visit 2857 has provided the primary motive power on the railway.
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Thus the political message of local elections provides another motive for ministers to deny their importance.
question
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Lawyers and supporters of the parents in Orkney questioned both the motives and the methods of this once trusted organisation.
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Others question corporate motives and wonder how much we want businesses involved in the schools.
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Your Miss MacQuillan says she questions my motives and emphatically will not encourage me to identify her father's killer.
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What has happened in the last decade to make anyone question his motives ?
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He predicted that devolution would be divisive and questioned the very motives behind the policy.
suggest
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Currently, the evidence is suggesting that both the motives and the actions are more prevalent than was previously supposed.
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Interviewed at his Paddington studios, Sweet's wife, Audrey, could suggest no motive for the killing.
suspect
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Her second teacher was Miss Barnsdale, one of those who suspects a mean motive for everything.
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A Temne is likely to suspect the motives of a Mende politician.
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She suspected his motives in asking her.
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Some in the West Wing suspected more petty motives .
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You owe him an apology for misjudging him and suspecting his motives at every turn.
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Tonight she had come full circle - from merely suspecting Luke's motives to hearing him finally admit them.
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They disliked this egoistic conception of man, and they suspected that egoistic motives might not be sufficient to underpin morality.
understand
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The future provision of a healthy diet will be based upon a full and detailed understanding of these motives .
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Much of my agony came from my inability to understand his motives .
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Obviously he hadn't liked it, because it showed that she understood his motives only too well.
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She would try to understand Mrs Maybury's motives .
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She would at once understand the motive and, however coldly she dealt with me, she would understand the necessity.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ulterior motive/purpose etc
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A member is entitled to a judgment that is free from any extraneous or ulterior motive.
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Actually, he invited me out tonight, probably with an ulterior motive.
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An ulterior motive for performing text recognition is to convert existing printed material into a computer format that permits further processing.
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However, for Guangming Ribao, all her appeals to students to end the demonstrations had an ulterior motive.
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It was difficult to accept that Jane had no ulterior motives.
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No ulterior motive lurks behind it, but it keeps you at a distance.
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The legislation pertaining to protection of wetlands and endangered species is clearly being abused by extremists pursuing ulterior motives.
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They look around for other explanations and ulterior motives.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's hard to understand her motives.
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Police believe the motive for the murder was jealousy
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Police say the motive for the killing was an unpaid drug debt.
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She was suspicious. Was there an ulterior motive behind his request?
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The motive behind the killing of Agnes Law was robbery.
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Whatever your motives for coming over, I'm glad you did.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, if the prosecution does not raise it as a motive for murder the defence is unlikely to challenge this.
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In an age when information is power, there are clear motives for archiving.
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Marty social services are simply not well suited to companies whose basic motive is profit.
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Morris said that police have not determined a motive in the attack.
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Nor does it provide a rationale for people with questionable motives to vent their hostilities or express their idiosyncrasies.
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Police are investigating but said they had no clue as to the motive .
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There is an obvious social motive behind explanations with a sharing function.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was the motive force that powered the world.