"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 • ...
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 • ...
1. ulterior motive = ukryty motyw ulterior motive
3. possible motive = możliwy motyw possible motive
4. real motive = prawdziwy motyw real motive
5. true motive = prawdziwy motyw true motive
6. strong motive = silny motyw strong motive
7. main motive = główny motyw main motive
8. personal motive = osobisty motyw personal motive
9. primary motive = podstawowy motyw primary motive
10. only motive = jedyny motyw only motive
11. apparent motive = pozorny motyw apparent motive
  • The paper is the first to report an apparent motive for the attack.
  • There was no apparent motive for anything else and good reason to accept suicide.
  • But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story, and no apparent motive for them to do so.
  • It seems like he may have done this deliberately yet there is no apparent motive.
  • So far there's no apparent motive for the gun owner to kill anyone.
  • But what bothered me even more than that was the way he tried to kill you, with no apparent motive.
  • The police said the crime had no apparent motive.
  • Dirty jobs, all of them, and no apparent motive on the surface.
  • What I'm talking about are random killings with no apparent motive.
  • There were no apparent motives in the last two of the six killings.
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 29
preposición + motive
Kolokacji: 13
of one's motives • about one's motives • on one's motives • with motives • for motives • ...

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