"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

motive sustantivo

sustantivo + motive
Kolokacji: 3
profit motive • revenge motive • base motive
motive + verbo
Kolokacji: 13
motive appears • motive seems • motive includes • motive varies • motive prompts • ...
(1) appear, seem, remain, range
Kolokacji: 4
1. motive appears = motyw pojawia się motive appears
2. motive seems = motyw wydaje się motive seems
3. motive remains = motyw pozostaje motive remains
  • The police said all possible motives, including reports of a feud among the immigrants, remained under examination.
  • The motive for her killing remains a mystery, though few doubt it was related to her work.
  • His true motives usually remain masked, and whether he is honorable or evil depends on the audience's perspective.
  • The motives of such an ascent have remained unclear.
  • Decades of academic examination later, his own motives remain far from clear-cut.
  • He said that the motive remained murky but added that the killings did not appear to be related to drugs or gang activity.
  • Though the assassination came in the wake of student protests and pro-democracy agitation, the killer's political motives have remained a bit opaque.
  • But motives to get labour cheaply still remain (and always will).
  • The expression of status generalization is salient in everyday life, but motives have remained relatively ambiguous.
  • Pond never said so; and his motive remained rather a mystery.
4. motive ranges = napędowe zakresy motive ranges
(2) include, involve, question
Kolokacji: 3
(3) vary, differ
Kolokacji: 2
(4) prompt, influence
Kolokacji: 2
(5) lie, exist
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + motive
Kolokacji: 14
question one's motives • understand one's motives • explain one's motives • see motives • reveal one's motives • ...
adjetivo + motive
Kolokacji: 93
ulterior motive • political motive • possible motive • real motive • true motive • ...
preposición + motive
Kolokacji: 13
of one's motives • about one's motives • on one's motives • with motives • for motives • ...

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